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ESG Reporting: Standards, Frameworks, Challenges and Benefits

Green Business Bureau

In 2004, the UN and International Corporate Finance worked together to develop a system that would integrate environmental, social, and governance concerns into capital markets. The resulting 2005 study, titled Who Cares Wins , marked the first use of the term ESG. Every company, as a legal entity, requires governance. Principles of People.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. From its cosmetics direct-sales origins in 1969, Natura &Co has matured to swallow up Avon, the Body Shop and Aesop.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. Its mission: to offer products that “promote the harmonious relationship of the individual with oneself, with others and with nature.”

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Governments are Acting to Curb the Fires in the Amazon

Green Market Oracle

The Amazon generates one fifth of the world's oxygen and it is the single largest reservoir of fresh water and biodiversity on Earth. This includes changing environmental rules, defunding government oversight, failing to enforce existing laws and dissolving the Amazon fund's committees. Subscribe in a reader.

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In an era of climate change, Alaska’s predators fall prey to politics

Grist

With conditions rapidly changing as the planet warms, wildlife managers nationwide are facing similar biodiversity crises. Elsewhere in the state, removing 96 percent of black bears in 2003 and 2004, reducing hunting, and killing wolves boosted the number of moose. They also remained low in those areas where wolves were left alone.

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