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Clean 200 list shows sustainable companies on path to dominate global economy

Corporate Knights

Clean200 data show that for the large companies that make up 80% of global market capitalization, sustainable revenues and capital expenditures are growing more than twice as fast as all other revenues over the past five years. We will continue to track and share the emergence of the clean energy economic powerhouse, Behar says.

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Paul Polman's rallying cry for courageous leaders

GreenBiz

For example, in the food sector, Imagine is working with 30 companies on a project that involves looking at regenerative agriculture, setting up a common data bank and creating a joint labeling system. Governments already have spent $12 trillion to $13 trillion just to stabilize global economies ravaged by COVID-19.

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The State of Green Business 2021

GreenBiz

Perhaps more surprising is the rise of "restorative" and "regenerative" among large companies in describing their ambitions to address human and planetary woes. As the global economy finds its footing in the coming months, and as a new, more environmentally friendly administration takes hold in Washington, D.C.,

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Sustainability Wins a Seat at the Table

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Two weeks ago, global business and political leaders met at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos to discuss geopolitical and environmental challenges. The need to move towards a net-zero economy, regenerative businesses, and an inclusive global economy were the key topics on the agenda.

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A Pathway to Practical Solutions

Chris Hall

Regenerative agriculture’s outcomes-based approach offers strong financial and sustainable returns, says Richard Jacobs, Head of the Farmland Strategy at Van Lanschot Kempen. In its 2022 Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum (WEF) ranked biodiversity loss as the third most critical threat to the planet over a ten-year horizon.

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What’s Your Vision of an Inclusive and Regenerative Future?

B the Change

At Champions Retreat 2022, leaders and collaborators in the Certified B Corporation community were encouraged to envision an inclusive and regenerative future where the three pillars of B Lab U.S. & & Canada’s Theory of Change  — racial equity, climate justice, and a stakeholder economy — are realized.

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Can sustainability save capitalism?

GreenBiz

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.