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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

And replacing one grass with another is labor-intensive; a 2004 report by the University of Georgia said it would take farmers who made the switch about three years to break even. Terra Fondriest via FERN Hamilton and Steele have decided to bet on biodiversity. The southeastern U.S.,

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ESG and Sustainability: Your 101 Guide for Understanding Corporate Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

In this report, the sustainability of a given company is measured under 3 key areas: Risk of biodiversity loss. In 2004, Kofi Annan, then the UN Secretary, asked major financial institutions to partner with the UN and the International Finance Corporate. Climate change and carbon reduction reporting.

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Tug of War: The Impact of Climate Change on Economic Development

Unsustainable

This group of stunning islands was at the forefront of the Tsunami destruction in 2004. Besides being a hub for biodiversity, it is also home to forest-dwelling tribal communities who would be evicted from their homes and their way of life. People lost their homes, jobs and loved ones. Their socio-economic lives were heavily impacted.

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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. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate.

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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. She is a chicken farmer, a zoo doctor, a firefighter, a polar marine biologist, a park ranger and a political candidate.

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

Grist

But the killings set off a political and scientific storm, with many biologists and advocates saying the operation called into question the core of the agency’s approach to managing wildlife, and may have even violated the state constitution. We can present the data, but what you do with the data is ultimately a political decision,” he says.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward.