Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

Bank's asset management arm launches exchange-traded fund (ETF) tracks that invest in firms with strong nature credentials. HSBC Asset Management has launched an exchange-traded fund (ETF) designed to invest in companies with strong biodiversity credentials, aimed at both wholesale and institutional investors, it announced last week.

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Biodiversity Investment Pollution Climate change 80

GreenBiz

MARCH 3, 2021

3 tips for anticipating investor requests on climate, water and biodiversity. In fact, three environmental issues — climate risks, water risks and biodiversity impacts — are poised to be in sharp focus this year for investors, and companies should prepare. Thomas Singer. Wed, 03/03/2021 - 01:00.

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Biodiversity Health Sustainability Climate change 425

GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity. Funding climate tech and entrepreneurs of color should go hand in hand. Funding biodiversity (31:14). Ideas for building a supply chain resilient to both short-term disruptions such as the pandemic and long-term risks such as climate change.

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Biodiversity Energy Energy Incubators 435

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 4, 2023

ImpactAlpha, January 4 – Indonesia is one of the most biodiverse countries on earth. Deforestation, overexploitation of natural resources, climate change and other. The post Conservation fund Terratai launches to invest in biodiversity startups in Indonesia appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Biodiversity Startups Investment Climate change 52

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

Measuring tree growth is important in enabling scientists to estimate the contribution of trees to climate change mitigation as a result of their ability to absorb and store carbon from the atmosphere.

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IoT Energy Monitor Climate change Building Energy Monitoring 338

GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

Apple creates $200 million fund for nature-based climate solutions. Nature-based solutions to climate change are having a moment, and Apple is riding the trend with a $200 million fund dedicated to related investments. . What started as a $10 million investment became the $100 million Right Now Climate Fund.

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Biodiversity Carbon-neutral Climate change Investment 543

Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Scores of financial firms, banks, and institutional investors representing more than $24tr in assets worldwide have today called on world leaders to adopt an ambitious global nature treaty that establishes clear guidelines for the financial sector to ensure biodiversity loss is reversed.

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Biodiversity Demand Climate change Investment 89

Business Green

JANUARY 21, 2024

LSE and University of Cambridge analysis calls for 'coherent set of public policies' and funding boost equivalent to around one per cent of GDP to address climate change and biodiversity loss

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Biodiversity Climate change Investment Policy 95

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Coastal mangroves: Restoring wetland areas could make a sizeable impact on sequestering emissions New research appears to find that wetland conservation has a higher potential mpact for mitigating climate change than other ocean-based solutions.

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Sea level rise Biodiversity Climate change Law 318

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Investing in the ground beneath our feet could have wide-ranging benefits for the environment, animal and human health – as well as moving closer to Net Zero, according to new research. Soil acts as a carbon ‘sink’, locking in GHGs that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

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Soil Carbon Investment Energy Monitor 245

Business Green

JULY 4, 2022

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law. From there, it calculated its own headline biodiversity footprint.

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Biodiversity Investment Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 68

Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

New report warns biodiversity degradation is set to have significant economic and financial implications. Co-lead of the study group and chair of NGFS Workstream on Research, Dr Ma Jun, said: "A growing number of central banks and financial supervisors recognize the risks that climate change poses to financial stability.

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Biodiversity Climate change Government Investment 95

Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Potential of mangoves and seagrass to capture CO2 and support biodiversity to be explored as six marine and coastal projects secure backing from UK Research and Innovation. Research projects aiming to boost biodiversity, capture greenhouse gas emissions and protect coastal environments are among those receiving a share of £9.2m

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Biodiversity Carbon Climate change Sustainability 97

Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

New tools aim to make it easier for developers to deliver overall improvements in biodiversity to compensate for their direct impacts on nature. Natural England this morning launched three new tools designed to help developers accurately measure biodiversity net gain and ensure new developments are "nature positive".

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Biodiversity Government Investment Carbon 77

Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

MSCI is set to launch tools to help investors identify companies at risk of contributing to biodiversity loss and deforestation, the financial index giant announced yesterday. For crucial action to be taken, capital markets participants need to have access to timely and robust data to make more informed investment decisions," she said.

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Biodiversity Investment Climate change Pollution 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

While the news that a date for the UN COP 15 biodiversity summit has been confirmed for December is welcome, the slow progress of the pre-meeting in Nairobi with 196 nations is less so. The UN has collectively proposed that countries commit 30 per cent of natural areas to prevent biodiversity loss.

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Biodiversity COP Government Investment 68

Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

CBI chief says it is 'not acceptable' for businesses to sit on the sidelines amid 'seismic' challenges from climate change, biodiversity loss and Covid-19. From climate change to digitisation, resilience-building to fighting protectionist instincts, the challenges we face are seismic," he said.

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Biodiversity Climate change Government Fossil fuels 96

Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

A six-fold increase in funding flows from richer nations to poorer nations to support nature protection is needed to help slow the rate of biodiversity loss, charities have warned. The time to act is now - there is not a moment to waste.".

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Biodiversity Climate change Asia Africa 73

Business Green

JUNE 11, 2020

Report from ShareAction finds that none of the world's 75 largest asset managers have a dedicated biodiversity policy, while many are still underplaying climate risks. Moreover, only 11 per cent of asset managers have policies requiring portfolio companies to mitigate harmful impacts on biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Policy Investment 97

Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

The UK government has promised to push its fellow G7 nations to accelerate the shift towards green energy, reduce dependency on fossil fuels, and ramp up efforts to tackle biodiversity loss, as climate and energy minister of the world's leading economies meet for a summit in Berlin this week.

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Biodiversity Fossil fuels Energy Energy 69

Business Green

MAY 30, 2022

A tree planting project in Liverpool and a plan to restore peatlands at the Great Fen in Cambridgeshire are among 50 initiatives sharing in government grants announced today with an eye on unlocking further private investment into nature restoration and climate action across England.

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Biodiversity Government Investment Climate change 73

Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Commitment to help protect land and ocean ecosystems critical to combating climate change to be announced by the PM at the global One Planet Summit later. It will be allocated from the UK's existing commitment of £11.6bn for international climate finance.

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Biodiversity Climate change Sustainability Agriculture 86

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Coal-fired power plant chimneys: In fast-growing economies, rapidly increasing energy demand is triggering investment in both low carbon and fossil fuel generation, leaving certain countries, including India and China, unlikely to reach net zero until much later.

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Fossil fuels Aviation Climate change Biodiversity 147

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The scale and scope of the climate change, biodiversity loss and inequality challenges facing corporate leaders is extensive. "[We] We] need leaders who know that by investing in others, they will be better off themselves. It is now much cheaper to design right and invest in that. We don’t want to repeat that. "We

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Climate change Fashion Government Investment 545

Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Commitment to help protect land and ocean ecosystems that are critical to combating climate change will be announced by Prime Minister at today's One Planet Summit. The money will be allocated from the UK's existing commitment of £11.6bn for international climate finance.

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Biodiversity Climate change COP Government 91

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A scientific paper published in the peer review Journal, Aquatic Conservation says that measures to address climate change and reach the Paris Agreement will not succeed unless the ocean is taken into account. We need to simultaneously address climate change impacts and reduce all cumulative direct and indirect stressors.

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Climate change Carbon-negative Biodiversity Carbon 264

Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

Would that the same could be said of global biodiversity - or the living natural world to give it its more evocative name and rid it of the emotional distancing that accompanies the dry scientific terminology. Efforts to tackle biodiversity loss enjoy no such luck. Can we develop market-based mechanisms that are genuinely credible?

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Soil Policy 81

Business Green

APRIL 13, 2022

VIDEO: Schroders' Andrew Dreaneen and Beccy Wilebore from Natural Capital Research offer advice and examples of how to drive up investment in nature-based solutions. The world stands no chance of solving the climate crisis, unless we also turn the tide on the ongoing decimation nature and biodiversity.

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Investment Biodiversity Climate change Demand 85

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2024

A black-tailed godwit on the Blackwater estuary in Maldon, Essex (image credit: Stefanie Carter) While the marshes may have meant danger for Pip in Great Expectations , these wetland habitats are important wildlife havens and mitigate climate change.

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Carbon Biodiversity Investment Soil 162

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The world is set to miss all its targets to safeguard biodiversity and halt the destruction of ecosystems that are critical to slowing climate change, according to an alarming UN report published today by the Convention of Biological Diversity.

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Biodiversity Plastics Pollution Climate change 96

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Investment and insurance giant teams up with green groups to study climate and biodiversity impacts on 600 hectares of AXA-owned forest in France. The initiative follows AXA's pledge last year to invest €1.5bn globally into sustainable forest management projects.

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Biodiversity Resilience Global warming Climate change 41

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Respondents ranked the other most significant obstacles to scaling renewables as follows: market structures and design (75%), supply chain risks (61%), access to capital (48%), lack of investment in grid infrastructure (47%). Access to capital (48%: Funding the energy transition requires an enormous amount of capital.

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Biodiversity Policy Fossil fuels Investment 278

Planet Pulse

JANUARY 23, 2024

We are expanding this portfolio with a white paper guide to help navigate new sustainability reporting demands around nature-related impacts and dependencies – Accelerating Biodiversity and Ecosystem Reporting , written in collaboration with Microsoft, the Natural Capital Project, and the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont.

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Biodiversity Sustainability Carbon-neutral Lithium 125

Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

French cosmetics giant says it is 'essential not to not step back from the sustainable transformation that the world needs' as it delivers plans to invest in ecosystem repair and circular economy projects. It is essential not to step back from the sustainable transformation that the world needs.

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Biodiversity Sustainability Plastics Investment 94

Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Investment will monitor, report, and verify collective climate actions in support of the Global Methane Pledge. Methane is a major contributor to climate change, and if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it. Planet and NASA JPL are building the first two satellites, which are set to launch in 2023. within reach.”

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Methane Climate change Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 108

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nature-based infrastructure solutions can influence 79% of all targets across the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting the critical role nature can play in advancing sustainable development, climate action and biodiversity conservation, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UNOPS, and the University of Oxford.

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Sustainability Biodiversity Resilience Demand 147

Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

New toolkit aims to help deliver investment ready nature projects that can mobilise private finance in support of nature restoration. What does investment in nature mean in practice? How can investors generate returns from investing in nature restoration and how can they be assured projects deliver promised environmental gains?

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Investment Biodiversity Soil Carbon 69