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The risky business of climate risk: 'Stop predicting the future'

GreenBiz

Fourteen months ago, the World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Risks Report neglected to include a pandemic among its major warnings for the year ahead. Irwin looks back on 2020 with "somewhat rose-tinted glasses" because it has proven the need to take the relationship between nature and society seriously. Reframe as vulnerability.

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Unilever unveils climate and nature fund worth more than $1 billion

GreenBiz

Tue, 06/16/2020 - 00:30. The consumer goods giant unveiled its new Climate and Nature Fund on Monday as it set out a raft of fresh sustainability goals, which include plans to end deforestation in its supply chain and communicate the carbon footprint of every product it sells. Cecilia Keating.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel.

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The risky business of climate risk: ‘Stop predicting the future’

AGreenLiving

Fourteen months ago, the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risks Report neglected to include a pandemic among its major warnings for the year ahead. The crisis has exposed not only the lack of foresight but the lack of effectiveness in mainstream business risk management policies. That’s a very different question.”

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Unilever unveils climate and nature fund worth more than $1 billion

AGreenLiving

Unilever unveils climate and nature fund worth more than $1 billion Cecilia Keating Tue, 06/16/2020 – 00:30 Unilever has announced it will invest €1 billion (about $1.12 “If we want to have a healthy planet long into the future, we must also look after nature: forests, soil biodiversity and water ecosystems,” he said.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. “I felt like it happened under my watch.”

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

She has developed a vendor sustainability scorecard for a Fortune 100 company, consulted with a national brand to improve impact measurement and reporting, and quantified the carbon emissions of an industry association. Edward graduated from NYU Stern in May 2020 with specializations in Finance, Strategy, and Entrepreneurship.