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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it. New metrics, such as the ones proposed this week by the UN Statistical Commission that go beyond GDP to include natural capital.

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Managing risk, achieving impact: Linking sovereign debt with climate and nature targets

Business Green

Difficulties around resource intensive budget tagging and project identification could also be avoided. Sovereign debt investors have always had an interest in countries strategically managing their capital - it is now time they also prioritize natural capital.

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The 5 Most Promising Long-Duration Storage Technologies Left Standing

GreenTechMedia

Rarely has such a crucial enterprise for the future of human civilization led to such little commercial success. The new school of pumped hydro focuses on isolated reservoirs that don’t disrupt river ecosystems; this simplifies permitting, but projects still face a decade-long development timeline and billion-dollar price tags.

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Trying to make a living on an organic smallholding: Paul Jennings, ‘One-Planet’ smallholder

Low Impact

In the end, what hampers the development of a co-operative economy is the existence of capitalism. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s very difficult to build a parallel system, when capitalism is tearing people and communities apart. I’d begin by recreating communities, at a local, human scale. Not just a couple.

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Canada Steps Up Surveillance of Indigenous Peoples To Push Fossil Fuel Pipelines Forward

DeSmogBlog

Canadian police and security forces have intensified their surveillance and harassment of Indigenous people in recent months in an effort to clear the way for the construction of two long-distance oil and gas pipelines in British Columbia, earning the condemnation of international human rights observers. This is our land.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

AGreenLiving

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top “theme” only means people have begun talking about it. New metrics, such as the ones proposed this week by the UN Statistical Commission that go beyond GDP to include natural capital.

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The landmark trial that could determine who pays to rid America’s drinking water of PFAS

Grist

But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health. Preliminary estimates suggest that the price tag on filtering forever chemicals out of America’s drinking water is more than $3.8

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