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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

The most dependent industries: construction, agriculture and food and beverage. . BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank, last month pledged to stop financing companies that produce or buy beef or soybeans cultivated on land in the Amazon cleared or converted after 2008. Still, these particular investors weren’t satisfied. .

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. He’s also started a new blockchain venture and is a new global youth lead for innovation nonprofit Dream Tank. .

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

AGreenLiving

The most dependent industries: construction, agriculture and food and beverage. BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank, last month pledged to stop financing companies that produce or buy beef or soybeans cultivated on land in the Amazon cleared or converted after 2008.

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In focus: How to push climate resilience up the corporate agenda

Business Green

As Gideon Henderson, chief scientific officer at Defra, explains the 2008 Climate Change Act represented a "big step change" in the government's approach to climate change, introducing long term emissions goals, the system of five yearly Carbon Budgets that require governments to develop credible decarbonisation plans, and the CCC.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

AGreenLiving

We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. He’s also started a new blockchain venture and is a new global youth lead for innovation nonprofit Dream Tank.

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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

Leveraging Blockchain, AI and Machine Learning to Create Sustainable Fisheries (Panel Discussion): Global consumption of fish and seafood has more than doubled in recent decades, but more than a third of the world’s assessed fisheries are thought to be overexploited. Our Companies Set a Price on Carbon.