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Global standard for biodiversity impacts moves a step closer

Envirotec Magazine

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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Can a global plastics treaty help tackle the pollution crisis?

Business Green

COP talks each year are often fraught and progress remains far too slow, as today's IPCC report on escalating climate impacts will testify. As close observers of global climate diplomacy have long argued, if the COP process and the Paris Agreement did not exist you would have to invent them. The US left the treaty altogether briefly.

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Net Zero Finance: Is green finally going mainstream?

Business Green

And by COP in Glasgow we will look to have those types of commitments across the financial sector, right into the private banking sector as well.". It's a net zero COP. That's the objective. That's the expectation.". The decade of delivery.