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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Nordea Asset Management, which manages roughly $280 billion, gave several reasons for the decision, including JBS’s links to farms involved in Amazon deforestation. . Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio.

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Southern Company Continues To Receive High Marks for Environmental Transparency

3BL Media

CDP is a global environmental impact non-profit, providing a platform for companies, cities, states and regions to report information on their climate, deforestation and water security impacts. Your browser does not support the video tag. trillion in procurement spend. Visit www.cdp.net to find out more.

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New tracking tool helps companies prove their supply chains aren’t harming biodiversity

Corporate Knights

Already, the EU has formally adopted rules requiring that companies prove their products aren’t causing deforestation or forest degradation. Saunders’s idea for NatureHelm came from a decade of working with her other for-profit company, Wildlife Drones , which sells aerial drones that can track radio-frequency wildlife tags.

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Do Voluntary Carbon Markets Help or Hinder Climate Action?  

Chris Hall

Uncertainty of claims REDD+ [Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation] helps fund projects to prevent deforestation in areas at risk of such activity. The projects forecast how much deforestation they will stop, with the claims assessed and verified by the likes of Verra or South Pole.

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Nature-based Solutions “Good Value for Money” – UN 

Chris Hall

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. . Banks, investors and companies that have made ‘net zero’ or ‘deforestation-free’ commitments need to invest, it said. .

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It’s a Start: Asset Managers Making Net Zero Commitments

Jon Hale

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: As big as the public sector effort is across all our countries, the $100-trillion plus price tag to address climate change globally is far bigger. That’s the message that came out of the COP26 meetings in Glasgow this week from U.S.