Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

FAIRR and GFI join forces to provide investors and companies with “common language” to assess ESG credentials of fast-growing sector. Traditional animal farming methods are heavily resource intensive and make a significant contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. Between 70-75% of all soy production becomes livestock feeds.”.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 11, 2023

Twenty-five percent of the entire Amazon Basin is on legally recognized Indigenous Territories, which are generally better protected than even government parks and reserves. At the 2021 UN climate summit, a group of 17 funders issued a pledge of $1.7 There are signs that this is changing. None of this is easy.

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Just Capital

JULY 28, 2023

The UPS story is merely the latest in a seemingly endless number of labor disputes hitting the country right now, affecting everything from fast food and media to Amazon delivery drivers, Hollywood writers, and FedEx pilots. CBS News unpacks the findings. Fortune ’s Modern Board newsletter digs into what could be behind the trend.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In August 2022, SDSN signed an MoU with Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development to strengthen international cooperation for the implementation of the Macro-basin Strategic Plans (PEM), in line with Colombia's 2021 Climate Action Law 2169.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 15, 2023

The biodiversity and nature data market being built by third-party providers is growing at a rapid pace, but it’s still in its nascent stages, with investors currently focused on developing their in-house assessment capabilities and supporting different initiatives on a piecemeal basis.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

But there are pockets where synergies can be identified, such as its assessment of mismanagement of human capital and whether companies are treating refugees they employ fairly for example. Students are also starting to pressure their universities to divest from border and surveillance companies.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EcoVadis saw a 61% growth in the number of assessments from 2017-2021, and for the first time in 2021, more than half of all companies have been assessed multiple times. Meanwhile, the share of companies with Partial sustainability performance fell from 45% in 2017 to 32% in 2021. in 2021, 1.7

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 1, 2023

The Future 50 ranks 25 public companies based on their short-term revenue growth (the rise in 2021 sales over 2020) and private companies based on the capital they’ve raised. s Legislative Assembly, Evanesce raised $123,000 in start-up capital in 2018 – and a whopping $14 million in 2021. 2 company, Surrey, B.C.‘s million to $9.1

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Chris Hall

JUNE 8, 2022

With no end in sight to Putin’s war, enthusiasm may ebb for plans to ringfence nature in the hope of replenishing and rejuvenating its over-exploited resources, lest unploughed fields foment hunger and instability. Ambition needed to finalise GBF. Article 2.1.c

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Between August 2020 and July 2021, deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reached its highest level since 2006, with 13,235 square kilometres of rainforest destroyed, according to Brazil’s space research agency INPE. This despite commitments by the Brazilian government that it is curbing illegal logging.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Annual clean energy investment in EMDEs needs to increase by more than seven times, from US$150 billion in 2020 to over US$1 trillion a year by 2030, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA) report. . One of the most notable was announced by US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry on COP27’s Finance Day.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. Mon, 05/17/2021 - 00:01. Our honorees for 2021 are intrepid startup founders, tenacious corporate innovators and determined public servants. Environmental Protection Agency and Natural Resources Defense Council. GreenBiz Editors. Their dreams are bright: Walkable, equitable cities.

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

REPORT: . The UK Corporate Leaders Group (CLG UK) has launched a new report highlighting the role and interaction of business and policy in supporting resilient places. The report identifies how policy can be used to support acceleration in the race to resilience. . Business Ambition for 1.5°C And funding of US $1.7

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

NIne members of this year’s cohort work are affiliated with some of the world’s most influential companies, including Allbirds, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, MetLife, Moody's Investor Services and Saint-Gobain. Clean Energy and Equity Advocate, Natural Resources Defense Council; Oakland, California. Meg Wilcox.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

in 2021. When trying to figure out the why , a few reasons spring to mind for Lindsey Stewart , Director of Investment Stewardship Research at data and research provider Morningstar. Overall average support for environmental and social proposals dipped below 25% (as of July 2023), down from an average of 33.8% Quality over quantity?

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Chris Hall

APRIL 30, 2024

Research conducted by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) has revealed the extent to which tech companies are failing to take responsibility for fuelling the Israel-Palestine conflict, highlighting the crucial role that investors can play in setting the record straight.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

You cannot be faulted for failing to notice the long list of environmental wins that occurred in 2021. To make matters worse the latest Emissions Gap report reveals that we are not doing anywhere near enough to stave off disaster. My mind is made up,” Bolsonaro said. Despite unnerving headlines, democracy is far from dead.

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