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Let the Innovation Flow

Chris Hall

Water is essential for our health, well-being, and the global economy. Innovative irrigation technologies are emerging to reduce water waste and improve crop yields, offering a potential solution to one of the most water-intensive sectors of the global economy. billion acquisition of Evoqua in May 2024.

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Investors Urged to Address Migrant Abuse in Global Supply Chains

Chris Hall

We hoped this wouldn’t persist into 2024, but figures from the first quarter of the year are already raising concerns as companies continue business-as-usual, allowing abuse to go unchecked.” Migrant workers are often the invisible glue holding the global economy together,” said Archer.

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UK Urged to Move Away from Single Materiality Mindset

Chris Hall

The authority had already pushed the release back to Q3 earlier in the year and the rules are now not expected to arrive until H2 2024. It also noted that investors’ approach to materiality is also “evolving” as a result of regulatory and client demands which are “linked to broader societal expectations”.

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

Given the potential reputational and workload impact of these requirements, companies in 2023 will focus on assessing what to report. On top of that, they will be creating plans to comply as soon as by the 2024 reporting cycle (e.g. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2

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Impact Investing in Turbulent Times: Opportunity Amid Uncertainty

James Militzer

Impact investing, much like the world around us, is facing a period of prolonged turbulence. The interconnected shocks of 2024 including the escalating climate and biodiversity crises, rising food insecurity, and mounting global health challenges are exposing vulnerabilities in our societies like never before.

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ESG – Threat to Humanity? Opponents Think So –Pushback on Actions to Address the Climate Crisis

Sustainability Update

With this and other actions, we probably are seeing an important campaign platform shaping up for the 2024 state and national elections. Many people cheered (at last!) while others jeered. This could be from one of the great Florida humorous fictions works of author Carl Hiassen !) No woke here!