Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

Bayer , headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, is a multinational life science company with core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. Sustainable development and inclusive growth are core elements of Bayer’s corporate strategy and vision: “health for all, hunger for none.” Learn more about them here. ###.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

That is the core message from research by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) this week, which outlines a set of five key actions banks and other financial firms can take to help respond to the biodiversity and climate crises, de-risking their investments in the process.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

By the way, Bendell was one of the first people to introduce me to the way money works, and how mutual credit could provide an alternative, in this TED talk from 2011.]. But the current system causes mental health problems already. Let’s call these people ‘business-as-usual types’, and those who are predicting collapse, ‘adapters’. [By

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

The Peruvian Amazon is the world’s fourth largest tropical rainforest and an important biodiversity hotspot. In 2011, a study in the journal PLOS One already identified gold mining as the leading cause of deforestation. Environmental toll Peruvian gold mining poses many risks to both the environment and human health.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Health care, already a longstanding challenge in the islands, is expected to get worse, as temperatures rise and mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika proliferate. Rising temperatures have also dried the soil, raising wildfire risks. Louisiana saw more than 20 such events between 2011 and 2021.

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Climate change Agriculture Fossil fuels Sea level rise 145

Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

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.

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