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Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business

GreenBiz

Since 2015, companies have been able to use science to ensure their efforts to tackle climate change are sufficiently ambitious. The guidance has been reviewed by 65 people from businesses, consultancies, NGOs and academic institutions.

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The rise of social metrics in ESG reporting

GreenBiz

For example, the NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business looked at more than 1,000 academic studies published between 2015 and 2020 on the correlation between financial and ESG performance. Meanwhile, evidence is mounting on the correlation between good human capital management and financial performance.

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Is it time to scrap COP?

Corporate Knights

While the success or failure of COPs often boils down to the substance of final pledges agreed to by negotiators, some academics suggest that failures like the 2009 Copenhagen COP have led to successes like the 2015 Paris Agreement. But that idea has been dismissed by anyone associated with the COP process who’s heard it. .

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Academic collaboration boosts SME efforts to reach net zero

Envirotec Magazine

We will work closely with them to identify a bespoke course of action harnessing the skills and expertise of undergraduates, postgraduates and world-renowned academics, and leveraging our plethora of world-class facilities. “I “Our support is designed for companies at all stages of their low carbon journey.

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What we can learn from Mexico's struggle to ban a potent pesticide

Corporate Knights

In 2015, the World Health Organization declared glyphosate a “Probable Human Carcinogen.” Monsanto, a major glyphosate exporter, has been shown to have influenced academic research to downplay the health risks of its valuable product. Sri Lanka imposed a ban in 2015 but lifted it by 2022. billion in damages.

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St. Philip's College Community Garden Grows With Retool Your School Grant

3BL Media

Philip’s College academic program coordinator, has been involved in the community garden from the very beginning. Philip’s College in 2015 and began working with the Garden Committee in Fall 2016,” says Paula. Paula Englebert, St. I transferred to St.

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Can sustainability save capitalism?

GreenBiz

For most of those years, those visions and proposals were relegated to a relatively small group of academics and activists toiling in a world unto themselves. Few were taken seriously outside those circles. But it’s a different time. The conversation is growing, and not just among those selfsame insiders.