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Why Slow Money?

3BL Media

Since the slow money movement’s first low interest loan to a local organic farm in 2010, more than $80 million has flowed to over 800 small farms and local food businesses, via volunteer-led groups in a few dozen communities. Some Thoughts on Fiduciary Responsibility, Mutually Assured Destruction and Small, Diversified Organic Farms.

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Meet the Climate Scientists Taking Arctic Icebergs-in-a-Bottle to Glastonbury

3BL Media

They’ve taken these bottles ( as well as a four-tonne melting iceberg from Greenland ) and set up camp (literally) at a handful of world events such as COP26 , the Davos World Economic Forum, and, in a matter of days, Glastonbury. Tell me more about the bottled water you took to COP26. OK, now for the actually serious stuff.

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Corporations promise to go deforestation-free – again

Corporate Knights

Back in 2010, more than 400 companies promised that all their soy, palm oil, beef, and pulp and paper would be “zero net deforestation” by 2020. Still more companies joined the New York Declaration on Forests in 2014. There are 1.6

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Are you greenwashing, wishing or walking?

GreenBiz

Eleven years ago, in 2010, at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s COP15, developed countries committed to a goal of mobilizing $100 billion per year by 2020, to address the needs of developing countries. Now, we are looking forward to COP26 in Glasgow and the stakes are high.

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UN Report Finds Global Climate Plans Insufficient to Hit 1.5 Degree Goal

ESG Today

One of the key highlights of last year’s COP26 conference’s final agreement, the Glasgow Climate Pact , was a call on countries to revisit and strengthen their 2030 emissions targets, or Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). by 2030, compared to 2010 levels, this marked a significant improvement over last year’s assessment of a 13.7%

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CDL’s integrated sustainability report 2022 zeroes in on bolder decarbonisation targets 

Corporate Knights

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. CDL also maintained an ‘AAA’ leader rating by MSCI ESG Research since 2010.

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CDL's Integrated Sustainability Report 2022 Zeroes in on Bolder Decarbonisation Targets

3BL Media

At COP26 in November 2021, CDL joined 44 companies worldwide to extend its pledge towards a net zero whole life carbon emissions approach. CDL also maintained an ‘AAA’ leader rating by MSCI ESG Research since 2010.

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