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

Corporate Knights

Bending the curve of biodiversity loss. According to a 2021 OECD report , nature-related dependencies, impacts and risks are poorly understood and almost entirely uncompensated for in the financial sector. About US$44 trillion per year of this global output is dependent on nature.

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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.” The announcement is meant to deliver on the 2023 subsidy phaseout deadline contained in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s December, 2021 mandate letters to Guilbeault and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. billion for the first nine months of 2021/22.

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Corporate commitments for net zero by 2050 rely on climate transition action plans from 2023

We Mean Business Coalition

Countries are beginning to bend the curve, the UNFCCC’s synthesis report outlines , but commitments and actions are still nowhere near the scale and pace of emissions reductions required to put us on track to stay within 1.5? UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report points to the need for urgent, system-wide transformation.