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New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion

GreenBiz

Thu, 12/03/2020 - 01:00. Science Based Targets Network, 2020. Integrating a dedicated biodiversity strategy — which is now part of our wider sustainability strategy — into Kering’s day-to-day operations is pivotal for our contribution to bending the curve on biodiversity loss over the next years. Liesl Truscott.

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AI doesn’t have to be a power hog

GreenBiz

Thu, 07/30/2020 - 02:15. So, what’s being done to "bend the curve," so to speak? AI doesn’t have to be a power hog. Heather Clancy. Plenty of prognostications, including this one from the World Economic Forum, tout the integral role artificial intelligence could play in "saving the planet." .

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Businesses and investors need to roll up their sleeves and join the race to revive biodiversity

Corporate Knights

The summit brought together delegates from over 190 countries to negotiate the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework , the implementation of which will require a transformation in the way we produce, consume and trade goods and services that rely on and impact biodiversity. Bending the curve of biodiversity loss.

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At long last, Canada restricts oil and gas subsidies (except for all the loopholes)

Corporate Knights

We are bending the curve on Canada’s fight on pollution.” In 2020, a blistering analysis showed Canada leading the G20 countries in per capita public financing to oil and gas. That work was meant to conclude by 2020. billion in 2020/21 and another $1.5 Those guidelines are due to be released in 2024.

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Technology Collaborations and Innovations to Accelerate Climate Progress

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: The annual United Nations Climate Change report - coinciding with the 27 th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt - concludes that while countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions downward, accelerated progress and collaboration are critical to our planet’s future.

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Nature Map Earth Project Launched

Sustainable Development Network

On current trends the Aichi targets for biodiversity and the 2020 biodiversity targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be missed by a wide margin. These preliminary findings will undergo extensive consultations in the run-up to the 2020 Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity in China.

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Guest Post: A Biodiversity Crisis is Unfolding – It’s Time for Businesses to Act

ESG Today

The conference in Montréal, which has already been delayed twice, is seen as the last chance to agree a “post-2020 global biodiversity framework” – a set of goals to get nature back on-track over the next decade. And we know that climate and nature are inextricably linked: we cannot reach net zero without halting and reversing nature loss.