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While We Fight Over Corporate Climate Action, Highly Polluting Business As Usual Continues Unchecked

We Mean Business Coalition

To cut emissions would require activities like stopping deforestation and using regenerative farming techniques while increasing removals means reforestation and wetland conservation, for example. To achieve this requires urgent, large-scale, and sustained investment. billion tons by 2030.

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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. Another good option is Calvert Impact Capital’s Community Investment Notes.

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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

Corporate Knights

In Senegal, the government, via the Senegalese Agency for Reforestation, has partnered with local farmers practising regenerative agriculture. Wall of greenwash? After all, as Alison Loat, the managing director for sustainable investment and innovation at OPTrust puts it, “What’s at stake isn’t the future of the planet.

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ESG’s Backlash Demands Better Data

Chris Hall

Richard Hardyment, Head of Engagement at the Institute of Business Ethics, calls for a revolution in the mechanics of measurement to realise sustainable finance’s potential. There are accusations of greenwashing from one side, ‘wokeism’ from another, and a lingering question on everyone’s lips: is it making a difference?