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.” The latest Food Waste Index Report (2024) , compiled by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and co-authored by WRAP, found that the world wastes over a billion tonnes of food – one fifth of all food available to consumers at the retail, food service and household level annually.
While a company’s biodiversity strategy is being fully developed and science-based targets confirmed, we advocate a no-regrets approach , as defined by the UNDP, UNEP and IUCN and expressed by the Science Based Targets Network. SupplyChain. Pull Quote. Biodiversity. Sponsored Article. Image credit: Sappi.
With a more comprehensive and systemic understanding of their agri-food value chain in place — showing, for example, where soil health is in jeopardy — leads to smarter decisions that can futureproof companies by ensuring long-term supplychain resilience.
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If countries and companies make policy and market shifts using existing technologies, plastic pollution could reduce by 80% by 2040, according to a recent UNEP report.
Stewardship, emerging markets and supplychains will be key areas of focus within Greening Finance for Nature. The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) 2023 ‘ State of Finance for Nature ’ report suggested that investments in nature-based solutions (NbS) to date have been underwhelming.
Jessica Smith, Nature Lead at the UNEP FI, says it’s time for biodiversity to take its place alongside climate in investor priorities. UNEP FI is going to play a big role in in the year ahead in the piloting programmes to work out what this will look like.”. Innovative finance.
To mitigate the risks of investing in small EMDE projects and companies, Ivo Mulder, Head of the Climate Finance Unit (CFU) for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), says investors are looking for opportunities with “some form of grant or concessional finance attached”. . Steady momentum .
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The unique opportunity aims to replace all single-use plastic packaging in the fashion supplychain such as hangers, shopping bags, shrink film, shirt clips and polybags. Innovation plays a major part and one company, Humblebee, has taken a novel approach to search for an alternative solution.
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Says Neil Burgess, Chief Scientist at UNEP-WCMC: “ Nature Map is a crucial new tool that can help to guide policies that tackle the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss together. Thus, they can play a critical role in making next year’s COP26 of the climate convention and COP15 under the biodiversity convention a success.
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In new guidance addressed to asset managers and owners, NGO ShareAction and the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) made five key recommendations to improve risk management in protected areas. “We
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She replaces Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, who stepped down from the role in March due to the “growing demands of her responsibilities” as Deputy Executive Secretary of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the taskforce said.
Co-hosted by AIGCC, CDP, Ceres, IGCC, IIGCC, PRI and UNEP FI. Speakers will explore Investor Climate Action Plans (ICAPs), engaging companies on transition planning, and enabling policy frameworks in line with 1.5°C C to help make net zero investment portfolios a reality.
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Because of their multiple benefits, investments in NbS would represent “good value for money” at a time of global macroeconomic uncertainty, said Ivo Mulder, Head of the Climate Finance Unit at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). . Where finance flows, action follows,” she said, adding: “Where finance flows lag, commitments wither.” .
It says “effective regulation” is needed across supplychains to ensure trade is sustainable and beneficial for exporting countries, noting that illegal trade of wild species – worth an estimated US$199 billion annually – often leads to unsustainable use. Almost 140 governments attended the Bonn conference.
SDSN is proud to have contributed to Chapter 6 "Transforming food systems" of UNEP's 2022 Emissions Gap Report thanks to our FABLE Consortium scientific director Aline Mosnier. C in place. C in place. We had our chance to make incremental changes, but that time is over.
Last year, UNEP FI issued a briefing paper for investors and other financial institutions which said “there is no foreseeable way in which the financing of [DSM] activities can be viewed as consistent with the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles”.
Possible analyses include commodity supplychains, highlighting key players involved as well as the risks and opportunities for more sustainable production systems in the Amazon, as well as major investors in Amazonian economic activities (beef, soy, timber). Prepare presentations for high-level meetings (e.g. Analyze data.
The report was produced by the World Economic Forum, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in collaboration with Vivid Economics.
Nature does everything.” – the words of UNEP Executive Director Inger Anderson at Davos 2024 during a session exploring if the financial risks of climate change are under-priced. This includes the UNEP FI’s latest report comparing assessment and disclosure approaches of different frameworks on nature-related issues.
It represents not only a lost opportunity to feed food-insecure people but also a substantial contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – an estimated 8 -10% of total global emissions , according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) , as well as 58% of all landfill methane emissions , according to the EPA.
Each stakeholder in the tourism supplychain ecosystem should aim to take meaningful action in tackling plastic pollution and reducing the use of SUPs. Dubai International Airport and Dubai World Central Airport announced a phased ban of all single-use plastics.
This expert group includes representatives from the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, standard setters EITI and SASB, and investment institutions FTSE Russell and S&P Global.
That includes respecting the rights of, and empowering indigenous peoples and local communities,” says co-author Lera Miles, Principal Technical Specialist – Planning for Places, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC).
Despite this trend, commentators like Dan Carlin, UNEP FI’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Program Lead, have made the case for further engagement with the fossil fuel industry. In fact, the total value of the institutions divesting is estimated to be US$40.5
Interestingly, it is the product’s supplychain, or what we do not see related to making and distributing products, that is especially carbon intensive. For example, trees are the Earth’s carbon storehouse but the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) estimates that 10 million hectares of forests are lost each year.
Further, a recent report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, showed that climate litigation is becoming an integral part of securing climate action and justice.
Yet, as the latest United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) annual gap report shows, policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C Sustainability also needs to extend to the supplychain. “As There breadth of opportunity offered by the renewables transition is only now becoming apparent.
This aims to bring change to all aspects of the business and supplychain. We don’t live in such a world and so we are reliant globally on large corporates stepping up to the plate and driving actions through their value chains. We need to be supporting both actions.
Keeping track of all the possible biodiversity and nature-related risks and impacts across a large corporate’s supplychain becomes “incredibly complex”, Cozic says.
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At the same time, businesses themselves are furthering their commitment to sustainable practices through voluntary agreements, such as those proposed by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). According to UNEP , 91% of consumers express concern over plastic waste.
Stronger wording might have been possible, but this was a big step in the right direction,” said Remco Fischer, Climate Lead, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). Tripling renewables means addressing land use and planning, threats to biodiversity, and supplychain-related issues,” he says. C in realistic reach.
The report also found that climate resilient developments in urban areas support the adaptive capacity in more rural places, maintaining peri-urban supplychains of goods and services and financial flows. Last year, UNEP FI published guidance outlining the kinds of resilient buildings needed to cope with new climate extremes.
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