3BL Media

APRIL 9, 2024

There has been a documented 69% decrease in monitored global wildlife populations since 1970, and factors like habitat loss, overexploitation of nature, invasive species, disease and climate change are all drivers for biodiversity loss worldwide.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 8, 2022

Download the document. The Deloitte Economics Institute modeled region-level data from 15 geographies across Asia, Europe, and the Americas to estimate how much it could cost the global economy if we aren’t able to prevent global average temperatures from rising 3 degrees C by the end of the century.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 26, 2024

Alcino Therezo, Human Resources and Sustainability Director at DP World in Brazil , said: “The inventory is the principal document in the country for quantifying a company’s greenhouse gas emissions. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. This number is calculated based on EIA documents, periodic factory monitoring and online monitoring data of a factory. China’s new frontier for VOC regulations. Shuying Xu. Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The historic provisions, arrived at after round-the-clock negotiations by climate ministers and other senior officials, appeared in the energy transition section of the 21-page document. “A COP28 marks the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era,” said Linda Kalcher, executive director of the EU’s Strategic Perspectives.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

CDP and Planet Tracker’s High and Dry: How Water Issues Are Stranding Assets , May 2022 report recognizes that “Water risk is already stranding assets across major sectors of the global economy.”. The data collected and the outcomes achieved can be fully documented in any standard ESG reporting frameworks.

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3BL Media

MARCH 19, 2024

This initiative will result in greater understanding of juvenile White Sturgeon population abundance levels as well as document its habitat use adjacent to in-river work areas, to support impact mitigation measures,” said Robert Reyerse, FRSCS Chair. “We are grateful for this contribution from DP World.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The Supply Chain Due Diligence Act’s objective is to safeguard human rights and the environment in the global economy more effectively. The OECD Due Diligence Guidance document provides practical guidance to enterprises in applying the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The principles outlined in the consultation document are designed to be voluntary, pan-sector and globally applicable. Mary Schapiro, GFANZ Vice Chair: “Transforming the global economy to achieve net zero is the biggest challenge facing this generation.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The sector currently generates 8% of global CO2 emissions: more than aviation and shipping combined. The challenge of increasing emissions is becoming more urgent as production of concrete and cement is increasing to meet global needs. ” Javier Durand of Peruvian cement giant Cementos Pacasmayo S.A.A.,

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Migrant workers are often the invisible glue holding the global economy together,” said Archer. Keeney Nana also recommended investors regularly review the policies of portfolio companies to ensure they are not just relying on third-party supplier audits – the deficiencies of which are “well-documented”.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

Building on foundational work launched last year, the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) partnered with the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and Climate Art to put the document together.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The metrics laid out in both documents will now be pilot tested by mining firms with the objective of “testing their practicality”. CA100+ focus companies including BHP, Glencore, Rio Tinto, and Vale will be assessed with the standards during the pilot stage.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The resources included deep-dive guidelines for seven sectors – including asset owners, asset managers and banks; high-level guidance for 30 sectors of the global economy; and advice on how to undertake a transition planning cycle. It is absolutely critical that these are being taken together.”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

iii Transporting 80% of world trade, shipping is the engine room of the global economy. However, despite being the most efficient and environmental way to transport goods, it emits 2% of global emissions, equivalent to the annual emissions of Japan. Without action, this could increase by more than 45% by 2050.

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Sustainability Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When looking to make improvements, a key challenge is the limited capital expenditure budget available to upgrade operations and fund projects, especially given today’s volatile and uncertain global economy. Documenting and demonstrating compliance with the regulations pertaining to the organization’s industry and region.

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Sphera

MAY 26, 2023

The Future of EHS Management EHS management is becoming more and more complex in today’s global economy. In a complex, dynamic business environment, detailed reporting is essential not only for regulatory compliance , but also for insight into what is happening and why it’s happening at all levels of your organization.

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We Mean Business Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Drawing on best practice from existing guidance documents and multi-stakeholder initiatives such as the Race to Zero, Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI), Together With Nature and the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), they also build on the 1.5°C

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We Mean Business Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But the companies should be aware of potential documentation requirements from their auditor/assurer, if their ESG reporting is assured. Therefore, there is a greater likelihood the companies will be better at reporting on these emissions. Companies cannot have perfect oversight of all the scope 3 data.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 27, 2020

Please see this document for some Q&A highlights ! Aniket Shah , Head of ESG and Sustainability Research for the Americas at UBS Group, shared a number of key messages on financial markets. We were unable to answer all the questions from the floor, but some of our panelists were able to answer them later by email.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 11, 2021

Best practices during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially those adopted in Asia-Pacific countries, should be documented and disseminated rapidly. Considering their size and importance in the global economy, G20 countries should intensify policy efforts and actions for a Covid-19 recovery built around the SDGs.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The Guide builds on existing global principles set out in documentation such as the ICMA’s Social Bond Principles, Sustainability Bond Guidelines and Sustainability-linked Bond Principles and should be considered alongside them. Use-of-proceeds approach: social and sustainability bonds.

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B the Change

APRIL 10, 2023

We are armed with the knowledge and resources needed to create the supporting documents behind the sustainability claims your company makes. These supporting documents are really important. Some tips I like to give to businesses that are in either the certification or recertification process are: Hire a sustainability analyst.

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B the Change

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Lower-skilled migrant workers are recruited widely in the global economy. Companies may withhold identification documents, deceive workers about their contract, and threaten those who complain with deportation. The “race for labour” occurs because of demographic changes, like aging populations in many countries.

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Corporate Knights

MARCH 29, 2023

In what may be a first for a federal budget in Canada, the document includes an RBC Economics chart that shows electricity from solar and wind costing less than natural gas. “As This massive battery manufacturing facility will represent a significant portion of the North American battery manufacturing sector,” the budget document states. “It

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

As a result, 91% of the global economy and almost half of the 2,000 largest companies have net-zero pledges. The limitations of spreadsheets are lack of documentation, missing audit trail, propensity for errors, difficulties reconciling year-to-year data sets, and inability to generate real-time or emission forecasting reports.

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Chris Hall

JULY 13, 2022

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.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 2, 2024

Second-quarter issuance represented US$238 billion, down 20% year-on-year, while global issuance of green, social, sustainability, sustainability-linked and transition bonds totalled US$238 billion – also down 20%. We] are committed to positioning [our countries], and the Indo-Pacific region, to benefit from this shift.”

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A report commissioned by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) highlighted that extreme weather has cost the global economy more than US$2 trillion over the last decade. Addressing ocean risks Addressing ocean risks is imperative as we are seeing the consequences of global warming and biodiversity loss.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Decarbonizing the global economy must not lead to further human rights violations. Researchers reviewed documents and correspondence, photographs, videos, satellite images and company responses. “Amnesty International recognizes the vital function of rechargeable batteries in the energy transition from fossil fuels.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

In 2020, we documented a host of positive biodiversity stories and in 2021 these the good news included the Monarch butterfly which increased 4,900 percent compared to 2020. Nature is the substrate of everything including our economy. Our economy and our very lives depend on nature, without nature there is no economy and no life.

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