Corporate Knights

AUGUST 16, 2023

If it weren’t for the plastic tags in the cows’ ears and the overhead drone of occasional passenger planes, we could be 600 years ago. Biodiversity, put simply, can clean our water, protect us from flooding and drought, increase how much food we grow and regulate our climate. The birdsong is unreal. And above it all, a stork wheels.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Akamai awarded points for actions completed during the month, and allowed offices and employees to tag and challenge each other through the online platform to encourage higher levels of participation. For example, the group in Ireland recently prioritized the distribution of wildflower seeds to cultivate awareness of biodiversity.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 16, 2023

The EU is debating whether to put a monetary value on its natural ecosystems as the bloc updates existing regulation on environmental economic accounting which could provide country-by-country information on important ecosystems data such as biodiversity protection and climate mitigation and adaptation.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Increased private sector funding seen as critical to acceleration of investments to meet climate change, biodiversity and land degradation targets. . As well as initiatives in France and Colombia, the report cites the use of a budget tagging tool in the UK, which calculated that 95% of its autumn 2021 budget was nature-neutral. .

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

The ocean – that great unknown that we still don’t know much about – produces 50% of the Earth’s oxygen and is home to the greatest biodiversity. This can involve camping on deserted and hostile islands, tagging sharks to follow their migrations and taking samples of their tissues to analyze their contaminants.

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Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

The NBS future physically delivers Verified Carbon Unit (VCU) credits certified under Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Projects with Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Certification, with vintages between January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The event also included the MPA’s Restoration & Biodiversity Awards, presented by BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today presenter, Sybil Ruscoe. We are very much part of the solution to the UK’s biodiversity challenges and are ready to play an even bigger role working with key stakeholders to protect and enhance UK biodiversity.”.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

The general sustainability standard sets requirements for disclosures on other sustainability-related matters in corporates’ financial reports, including risks relating to biodiversity. . The post ISSB’s First Sustainability Reporting Standards Target Granularity appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Stanford Social Innovation

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Industrial food systems are some of the largest drivers of climate change , habitat destruction, biodiversity loss , displacement of Indigenous peoples, disease , and the double burden of malnutrition. You Can’t Count What You Don’t Measure. These are inspiring, important, and necessary signs of progress.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

For the smaller debt management offices of some countries, they’ve already run out of projects they can tag as pure green,” notes Fiona Stewart, Lead Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank. . For example, KPIs related to climate change, biodiversity, social factors or the ocean could all be relevant to EM sovereigns.” .

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

Both standards will require companies to disclose how they are both directly and indirectly responding to risks and opportunities, how their subsequent strategy will be resourced, and what consequent changes they expect to financial position and performance over time. .

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The letter was written by prominent climate and biodiversity scientists from universities and organisations in top biomass sourcing countries – the U.S., Forests are home to more than 80% of terrestrial biodiversity, supporting plants, animals, fungi, and other species found nowhere else on Earth.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 3, 2023

Look for even more fine-tuning from EU regulators on rules for sustainable finance disclosure and investments qualifying for its new green taxonomy tag. In the U.S., the SEC has released proposals requiring that 80% of a fund’s assets adhere to the ESG approaches specified in its name.

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