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ESG Explainer: Halting Deforestation

Chris Hall

The role of forests as carbon sinks and sources of biodiversity is well recognised, but action to clean-up supply chains is slow to reduce deforestation rates. Globally from 2001 to 2020, a total of 411Mha of tree cover was lost, equivalent to a 10% decrease in tree cover since 2000 and 165Gt of CO?

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Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada

Corporate Knights

At the COP26 climate conference in November, the United Nations identified hydrogen as the “backbone” of our clean energy future. The company was founded in 2001 to better match buildings’ electricity needs with the varying voltages coming from the power company. Alberta Innovates is the launch partner for the Future 50. Next Hydrogen.

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Safeguarding Our Forests

Chris Hall

Research shows that forests absorbed twice the amount of CO2 they emitted between 2001 and 2019, sequestering 7.6 With so much capital tied to deforestation-related risks, it’s more important than ever that UK pension funds gain visibility of investee companies’ exposure to deforestation, both directly and along supply chains, it added. .