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Why needless growth isn’t needed

GreenBiz

If the world heeds that advice, we’ll leave a lot of stranded assets lying around. Of course, a chorus of activist investors have been pressing investors, banks and companies to examine their risks on stranded oil and gas assets for more than a decade, knowing this day would arrive. Pull Quote. The future is different.

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Canada is sleeping on the energy transition

Corporate Knights

Gareth Gransaull is the co-executive director of Re_Generation , Canada’s next-generation think tank working to build a regenerative economy, and a climate policy researcher with the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at the University of Victoria.

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Creativity and Collaboration Vital to Finance Nature

Chris Hall

We have already disbursed US$111 million to farmers as part of this scheme, including through our new ‘GreenGalaxy’ programme that securitises agricultural receivables to fund small and medium farmers – enabling them to transition to regenerative agriculture by raising yields on cleared lands, while avoiding deforestation.

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COP26 Live Blog: All in for 1.5ºC

We Mean Business Coalition

Also earlier this week, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and 12 partners announced Regen10 , an ambitious collective action plan to scale regenerative food production systems, worldwide, in a decade. This was the clear message put forward by over 775 companies , representing US$2.7

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