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Global standard for biodiversity impacts moves a step closer

Envirotec Magazine

Judy Kuszewski is Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), which is responsible for setting the GRI Standards. A proposed reporting standard that seeks to unlock accountability for the impacts organizations have on the natural world, informing the global response to a deepening biodiversity crisis, has been made available.

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Global Briefing: Colombia to host pre-COP biodiversity summit

Business Green

Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP. The Kunming Summit has been postponed repeatedly in response to the coronavirus crisis, further fuelling fears that governments are not doing enough to enhance biodiversity protection, despite the world missing nearly all the targets it set at the Aichi Summit over a decade ago.

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Looking Ahead to COP: Climate Week Takeaways for Food & Agriculture

EDF + Business

Increasingly climate-minded consumers are also seeking more sustainable food options, and the spotlight is on meat and dairy because of livestock’s outsized methane footprint. Support policy that will deliver incentives to farmers for lower-emitting practices. There’s no time to lose. Solutions exist today.

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MPs call for UK ban on trade and financing of deforestation-linked goods

Business Green

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. Our committee's findings are clear: we must bring consumption to a sustainable level or the wildlife, animals and nature we hold dear are threatened," he said.

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High Seas Treaty: UN member states seal historic deal to protect international waters

Business Green

Guterres said the treaty was crucial for addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. "It Jessica Battle, senior global ocean governance and policy expert, said the treaty marked a turning point in governments' approach to the oceans that could result in significant economic benefits.

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From ClimateWeek to COP27, COP15, and Beyond: Notes on the Road Ahead

Planet Pulse

World leaders, CEOs, climate advocates, scientists and sustainable development specialists from around the world converged on New York City last week, for the annual, concurrent rituals of the United Nations General Assembly and ClimateWeek. Domestic Climate Policy Gets Real. Here are my four key takeaways: U.S. degrees Celsius.

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A Guide to Six Greenwashing Terms Big Ag Is Bringing to COP28

DeSmogBlog

As with the last summit, the risk continues to be that greenwashing leaves governments with “a vision that tinkers around the edges,”rather than a transformative one that creates food systems that are resilient and restore ecosystems,” as Shefali Sharma, director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), warned at COP27.