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How Modern Poultry Farming Practices Contribute to a Sustainable Environment

The Environmental Blog

Apart from industry-led changes, external factors such as consumer demand for ethically sourced products and government regulations promoting sustainable farming practices also push the sector toward being more eco-friendly. While challenges exist, notably the need for capital investment and knowledge transfer, opportunities are abundant.

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ESG and Sustainability: Your 101 Guide for Understanding Corporate Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

Investment firms across the globe are changing their priorities. In addition, ESG and corporate sustainability have each developed their own sets of terms, for example, ESG investing, ESG policy, sustainability program, and green business. This translates into ethical and responsible business practices. ESG and Sustainability.

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ESG Reporting: How Does It Differ From Sustainability Reporting?

Green Business Bureau

Such criteria is used to measure an entity’s risk exposure with the aim of improving investment decisions. This report demonstrated that ESG investments make good business sense. And since the report’s publication, such investments have grown exponentially. Why is ESG important? So what marks them as different?

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'More than affordable': Aviation could offset its way to 'carbon neutrality' with minimal impact on profitability

Business Green

Analysis from Thrust Carbon urges aviation sector to make up front investments that rapidly scale the carbon offsetting market to the scale needed to cover its emissions. To make that happen, we still need investment in new technologies such as sustainable aviation fuel and hydrogen and electric planes.

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

Both companies already have commitments to eliminate deforestation, but the investment firm would like to see them become even more aggressive with members of their soy supply chains. There is definitely increasing urgency around this issue," Waxman says. Palm oil plantation at the edge of a rainforest. Map your sourcing.

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Leader of Ecocide Movement Aims to Criminalize Long-lasting Harm to the Environment 

DeSmogBlog

She is also chair of the charitable Stop Ecocide Foundation and convener of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide chaired by Philippe Sands KC and Dior Fall Sow. JOUBERT All of us have a natural, innate ethical sense that it’s wrong to take life. But that sense somehow stops at nature.

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Can the EU's Taxonomy end greenwashing in the financial sector?

Business Green

Experts appointed by the EU Commission presented their final recommendations for what investments and activities should be considered 'sustainable' - but there remain several key unanswered questions. What exactly is ESG investing? The Taxonomy provides the finance sector with a list of green investment opportunities.