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Navigating the Rising Tide: The Convergence of Climate Change and Global Trade

3BL Media

This is “imposing significant costs on governments, corporations, NGOs, regional economies and other stakeholders. In 2019, flooding accrued a hefty price tag of $82 billion for global economies,” Enright notes, citing The Wall Street Journal. And there is potential for these costs to surge past $1.2

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Nature takes root on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

This will have a tremendous impact on nature that, in turn, will affect businesses and the global economy. The Financial Stability Board recognized that climate change presents a financial risk to the global economy. The valuing-nature goal builds on work that began in 2011 in partnership with The Nature Conservancy.

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SAMBAZON Commits $25,000 to Alleviate Poverty through Whole Planet Foundation

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Since 2011, SAMBAZON has donated $410,975 to Whole Planet Foundation to fund 9,795 microloans and created 53,392 opportunities for low-income entrepreneurs – mostly women. SOURCE: Whole Foods Market Foundations. Watch the video and learn more in this SAMBAZON blog post. .

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Estée Lauder Appoints Nancy Mahon as First Chief Sustainability Officer

ESG Today

While at the company, she was also appointed by President Obama as Chairperson of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, serving in the role from 2011-2016. Appointing Nancy to Chief Sustainability Officer is an example of our company’s ambition and focus on these initiatives.”

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Closing the Loop: Rethinking Operations, the Economy To Save the Planet

3BL Media

The company continues to look at ways to reduce PET materials, already seeing a reduction of 7 percent with the advent of a new finish and cap in 2011 and 50 percent of PCR materials on 2-liter green bottles. Closing thoughts I can’t help but think about how right Boulding was nearly 60 years ago about the future of our global economy.

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Canada’s Best 50 corporate citizens of 2022 continue to conquer the markets

Corporate Knights

Racial diversity on large corporate boards has also improved: 9% of members are now non-white, double the 4% level in 2011, when we first started tracking this metric. Money and solutions are not the barrier; we have them. The barrier is an incrementalist mindset.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

"We have an opportunity to extend the recent response of regulators, businesses and investors on climate change to nature; both are interrelated and both pose a systemic risk to the global economy.". Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments. LinkedIn | Twitter. LinkedIn | Twitter.