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How unchecked consumerism helps drive climate change

Corporate Knights

Interestingly, it is the product’s supply chain, or what we do not see related to making and distributing products, that is especially carbon intensive. For example, trees are the Earth’s carbon storehouse but the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) estimates that 10 million hectares of forests are lost each year.

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Sports Organisations Commit to Safeguarding Nature Under New Framework

3BL Media

Co-created by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the IOC and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Sports for Nature Framework aims to deliver transformative action for nature across sports, by 2030 and beyond.

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Fusion the Positive Choice for Climate Impact

Chris Hall

To mitigate the risks of investing in small EMDE projects and companies, Ivo Mulder, Head of the Climate Finance Unit (CFU) for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), says investors are looking for opportunities with “some form of grant or concessional finance attached”. . Steady momentum .

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World Economic Forum: “Investing less than 1% of world GDP into nature-based solutions can tackle climate change and biodiversity crisis”

Envirotec Magazine

The report was produced by the World Economic Forum, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in collaboration with Vivid Economics.

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Lost at Sea

Chris Hall

Investing in traceability and fostering accountability throughout supply chains could improve sustainability and profits in the seafood sector. As of 2018, the largest providers of such subsidies globally were China (21%) with US$7.4 billion, the EU (11%) with US$3.9 billion, the US (10%) with US$3.5 Approximately US$22.2