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Global Trade and Climate Change Will Impact U.S. Grocery Bills—Fairtrade America Offers Key Strategies for 2025

3BL Media

Poverty and climate change ranked second and third, respectively. Prices for commodities grown by smallholder farmers in tropical regions hit hard by climate change will increase due to reduced supply. Consumers Demand Proof Sustainability claims are no longer enough. No amount of isolationism in U.S.

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Guest Post: Six Steps Leaders Can Take to Accelerate Their Sustainability Transformation Efforts

ESG Today

This concept describes how corporate information can be important both for its implications about a firm’s financial value, and about a firm’s impact on the world at large, particularly when it comes to climate change and other environmental impacts. executives say their organization is increasingly focused on social sustainability.

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Time to Face our Challenges Head-on

Chris Hall

The answers to these questions will be shaped by the regulatory requirements faced by investors, including their fiduciary duties, their disclosure requirements, and the need to avoid greenwashing. This has led to a serious shake out in the sustainability space. subsidies, minimum tariffs).

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ESG. Three Little Letters That Might Save the Planet.

3BL Media

However, companies are often lost in a series of topical buzzwords such as ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’. We need to take ESG one step further and build Environmental sustainability, Social sustainability and Governance sustainability. We call out greenwash.

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UK Green Labels to Raise Fund Standards

Chris Hall

Protected status for ESG investment products could mark the beginning of the end for greenwashing for UK investors. Before long, any asset manager thinking of slapping a ‘sustainable’ or ‘ESG’ label on its investment products for UK clients should think twice – at least. It thinks there is a problem about greenwashing.”.

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Take Five: No More Hot Air

Chris Hall

Separate from the US$100 billion per annum in climate finance pledged by rich countries, the Loss and Damage Fund was the surprise hit of COP27 , agreed with the aim of compensating the developing countries most at risk from the physical impacts of climate change already ‘locked in’.

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Storebrand Fund a Gauge for Green Bond Growth

Chris Hall

The tenth anniversary of Nordic asset manager Storebrands Green Bond Fund offers a yardstick for the significant growth of and interest in green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition (GSS+) bonds during the last decade. Launched in 2015, the fund has hit almost SEK 11 billion (US$1.1 said Linnell.