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Biodiversity financing gap stems from lack of understanding, says Allianz

Environmental Finance

The biodiversity financing gap is mainly caused by a lack of understanding of the "price tag" for ecosystem services, with the value of soil being particularly poorly understood, according to a research note by Allianz.

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Cummins Employees Improve Environment One Mussel and Bee at a Time

3BL Media

Cummins employees can dedicate to community service up to four hours on company time and longer with the approval of their supervisor. The mussels eat algae and bacteria, cleaning and filtering water of pollutants, resulting in healthier aquatic ecosystems. Cummins Water Works is the company program to address the global water crisis.

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DP World Commits CAD$350,000 for Fraser River White Sturgeon

3BL Media

Data collected will contribute to FRSCS’ longstanding monitoring and assessment tagging program, to help to understand sturgeon habitat in the lower Fraser River. We are grateful for this contribution from DP World.

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Meet the Visionary Ashoka + Kind City Changemakers Transforming Our World

3BL Media

Marine Conservation and Protecting Sea Turtles in the Philippines Jessica Labaja , co-founder and executive director of the Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines ( LAMAVE ), engages her local community in Puerto Princesa and beyond to understand, protect, and heal ecosystems.

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Surprise: Samsung is making SmartThings hardware again!

Stacey Higginbotham

Samsung instead planned to focus on smart home software and services as it ramped up the industry transition to Matter. And some of the challenges I faced with Matter upgrades are in part due to hubs from different ecosystems starting to work together. That doesn’t mean we need more smart home hubs though.

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

Corporate Knights

A new platform allows companies and landowners to monitor the ecosystems in their supply chains, as governments around the world increasingly consider regulations that require businesses to account for biodiversity. The plan also has a target to place 30% of degraded ecosystems under effective restoration plans. Saunders says.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio. Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it.