Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Those were nascent days of corporate social responsibility, when the focus was on corporate image, not substantive changes to business practice. As my career progressed, I saw firsthand the stark contrasts that underpin our global economy. At the same time, I witnessed the lingering impacts of colonialism.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year. While investments in nature-based solutions cannot be a substitute for deep decarbonization of all sectors of the economy, they can contribute to the required pace and scale of climate change mitigation and adaptation, concludes the report.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2023

Jose Pugas , Head of Responsible Investments and Engagement at JGP Asset Management , explains why scal ing -u p finance between the global north and south for nature-based solutions is essential to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Brazil is the most biologically diverse country in the world.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The fund’s objective is to achieve long-term capital growth through the selection of companies that contribute to the transition towards a sustainable circular economy, a model that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design. The fund aims to generate strong financial returns while addressing climate change and inequality.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

The Biodiversity Equity theme covers six key themes: land pollution, marine pollution and exploitation, unsustainable living, climate change, unsustainable farming, and deforestation. Each theme also considers multiple sub-themes aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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We Mean Business Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As one of the most cost-effective methods of fighting climate change, nature-based climate solutions (NBS) have the capability to provide one third of the solutions to reach the 1.5 ° C pathway according to McKinsey and the World Economic Forum , and business has a vital role to play. .

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 30, 2020

Paul Polman, Chair of the International Chambers of Commerce and the UN Global Compact, and Co-Founder of IMAGINE, said, “ Happiness and the Sustainable Development Goals are nearly the same…. If we can convert food production into regenerative farming, it will be the biggest contributor to climate change out of anything we can do.”

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GreenBiz

MARCH 30, 2021

There is also a growing understanding that these advances haven’t been spread equitably — that vast swaths of the global economy lack adequate food, healthcare, housing, work, education and other basic human needs.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Tourism is projected to make up nearly 12% of the global economy by 2033, but it is also poised to consume a troubling 40% of the world’s remaining 1.5°C trillion to global GDP in 2022, and the WTTC forecasts [pdf] that figure doubling to represent 11.6% Travel and tourism added US$7.7

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We Mean Business Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Preparing for the storm: The role of UK business and government in improving UK resilience to climate change in the UK’ explores how leading UK businesses are already increasing community resilience through climate adaptation strategies and action. billion climate finance already promised by Biden each year, by 2024.

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James Militzer

MARCH 27, 2023

The world is in the midst of a difficult transition, moving from a degenerative “death economy” to a regenerative “life economy.” The death economy is an economic system based on maximizing short-term profits, regardless of the social and environmental costs. John Perkins is an author, speaker and former economist.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

"This is where the moral leaders [will] separate themselves from the greenwashers," Paul Polman, global sustainability leader and former Unilever CEO, said in a GreenBiz 21 keynote conversation about what leadership means today. Governments already have spent $12 trillion to $13 trillion just to stabilize global economies ravaged by COVID-19.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wasted little time raising the stakes in her nation’s fight against climate change after handily winning re-election in October. Drawing on that mandate, Ardern declared a "climate emergency" and set the wheels in motion for New Zealand’s public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025.

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Sustainable Round Table

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

What seemed to resonate best in follow-up discussion was the possibility of analogizing our climate crisis to the issues of forced labor and LGBTQ rights, regarding which corporations have been willing to embrace a relatively simple and effective moral framing, language, and demand. .

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