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Why Investing in Waste Matters

Chris Hall

Waste management is a big – and growing – business, as the global scale of solid waste generation reaches vast proportions. Every year more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste (MSW) is produced across the planet, as shown in the UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Global Waste Management Outlook 2024. billion tonnes.

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COP27: A Breakthrough for People and Planet

3BL Media

In the midst of a weakened global economy and the war in Europe continuing to place strain on geopolitical relations, speculation as to whether COP27 could deliver measurable outcomes was a global concern. planets to provide the resources needed to produce goods and absorb waste (Global Footprint Network 2020).

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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 seems to find that annual investments in nature-based solutions will have to triple by 2030 and increase four-fold by 2050 from the current investments of $133 billion (using 2020 as base year). Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year.

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ESG Explainer: Call of the Wild

Chris Hall

If we don’t respond, not only will a massive array of the rural and vulnerable poor not have access to key resources, but nor will the rest of the global economy,” says Wendy Elliott, Deputy Practice Leader and Innovation Lead for Wildlife at WWF Kenya. Almost 140 governments attended the Bonn conference.

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Nature is Integral to Sustainability Reporting – ISSB

Chris Hall

Former World Bank Global Director for Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy Karin Kemper will advise the board on natural ecosystems. . It will fill a public-interest gap and provide investors with practical and globally applicable parameters.” .