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Nature takes root on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility. Richard Mattison. Pull Quote.

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Greentown Go Build 2023 with Saint-Gobain Announces Startup Cohort

Greentown Labs

The accelerator will advance six startups’ climatetech solutions and foster potential development, investment, and commercial partnerships with Saint-Gobain Somerville, Mass. manufactures and distributes biobased building materials, including a low-embodied-carbon insulation. and Houston, Texas, Jan. Hempitecture (Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.)

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Let's reinvent retail and change the way we shop

Business Green

Reflecting on the climate crisis, the devastating rates of bio-diversity loss and the suffocating flow of plastics into the ocean, I feel a sense of overwhelm. August 22nd marked World Overshoot Day, a stark reminder that we are consuming nature at a rate which is too fast for our planet to regenerate.

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Nature takes root on the balance sheet

AGreenLiving

We see customers demanding action on carbon emissions, investment firms structuring new green products and governments developing regulations to support the transition to a sustainable future. Its framework excludes areas such as plastics in the oceanic food chain and the loss of soil fertility.

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What is 'natural capital' and why should investors care?

Business Green

There is also an increasing awareness that biodiversity loss contributes to climate change and is an investment risk. So while oil and gas exist in nature, we use man-made machinery to access it and turn it into everyday products like petrol and plastics. What is natural capital? These could have direct revenue impacts," he adds.

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What Is ISO 14000? Certification Checklist and Challenges

Green Business Bureau

ISO 14000 frameworks Environmental management system (EMS) An environmental management system aims to reduce the negative impacts a business has on the environment by integrating policy, procedures, and processes for measuring, analyzing, and reporting an organization’s impact on the natural world.

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A world of equal weight: How an Aboriginal family’s battle with fossil fuels started with a walk

Grist

Broome residents attend a 2011 protest rally against the proposed natural gas plant. Without fully realizing it, I’d become invested in the idea of the songline being “saved,” as if the expulsion of the gas company had created a permanent haven, beyond the reach of our planetary crisis. Ingetje Tadros / Getty images.