Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Green investment manager teams up with WTW and Environment Bank on new fund that ties returns to generation of biodiversity credits compatible with new BNG rules

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Biodiversity Investment 85

GreenBiz

MARCH 19, 2024

Investing in forest protection is the most effective approach to enhancing forest carbon sequestration and supporting biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Investment Carbon 471

GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2023

Is 2023 the year the pens writing pledges get put down and the finance sector gets to work in investing towards a net-zero future?

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Politics Biodiversity Investment 506

Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The post The Brief: Community foundations’ local investments, San Diego school bond, corporate biodiversity credits, meaningful Internet connectivity appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Last chance to RSVP. Learn how to gain “the employee-ownership edge” on this week’s Agents of Impact Call.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 3, 2024

3 hot topics for 2024: regulations for ESG assurance; international agreements for transition finance; and new ways to measure investment in nature and biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Investment 478

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

National Highways and Manchester Metropolitan University aim to create “a highly detailed map of the habitats found alongside England’s busiest roads to help boost biodiversity” (image: drone photography of the M6 in Cumbria). ” For more on National Highways’ biodiversity work, visit [link].

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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 78

GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity. Funding biodiversity (31:14). William Ginn, author of the new book " Valuing Nature ," talks with Associate Editor Deonna Anderson about ways the private sector can address biodiversity. Biodiversity. Heather Clancy. Fri, 06/12/2020 - 02:15.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

ImpactAlpha, September 26 — Global conservationists and policymakers are working to develop an economically-viable market for biodiversity credits, also known as biocredits, to. The post Environment Bank offers biodiversity credits to catalyze corporate investment in nature restoration appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Biodiversity Investment 69

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2023

The UK government said nature-positive developments were moving a step closer on 27 July as it announced additional government support to enable the rollout of Biodiversity Net Gain. Many housing developers are already successfully operating Biodiversity Net Gain recognising the benefits for people and nature, said Defra.

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Biodiversity Government Investment Sustainability 130

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Set to be finalized in early 2022, the GBF’s draft sets out targets for protecting marine and land habitats, reducing pesticides and plastic waste, and increasing investments.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Scientists have proposed a framework for effective national-level implementation of global biodiversity goals. The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) writes. Looking back, the international community has repeatedly failed to reach most of its biodiversity targets.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 27, 2023

The transition to greener chemicals offers holistic solutions to plastics pollution, climate change and biodiversity, but we need more investments to scale innovation.

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Biodiversity Plastics Climate change Sustainability 418

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If we continue to lose biodiversity, the world’s most vulnerable people will not be able to adapt to climate change nor sustainably produce food, according to a report released on 7 October by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). We know that large-scale agriculture threatens biodiversity.

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Biodiversity Climate change Agriculture Soil 130

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

New study appears to find that a tripling of current investments into nature-based solutions is needed by 2030 to tackle the climate crisis, otherwise there will be a $4 trillion financing gap. Today, just one tenth of 1% of global GDP is invested in nature-based solutions, says WEF. A total investment of $8.1

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Biodiversity Climate change Investment Agriculture 130

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 4, 2023

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

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Biodiversity Startups Investment Climate change 52

Business Green

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Global Environment Facility members debut new GBFF Council, as they agree to new biodiversity, climate, nature, and pollution funding

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Biodiversity Government Investment Pollution 50

GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2020

Timberland invests in regenerative leather ranches. But more companies outside of the food space are figuring out how they can invest in or use regenerative practices in the supply chain for their products. . Deonna Anderson. Fri, 06/19/2020 - 02:45.

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Investment Agriculture Fashion Soil 499

Impact Alpha

JANUARY 26, 2023

ImpactAlpha, January 26 — Central Appalachia’s forests and ecosystems are some of the most biodiverse in the world, and its mountains among the. The post Invest Appalachia secures $19 million to bridge investment gaps in Appalachia appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Investment Biodiversity 87

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

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 88

GreenBiz

MARCH 18, 2021

Latin American e-commerce giant invests in Brazilian ecosystem restoration. The second, the Corridors for Life Project run by Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas, aims to recreate wildlife corridors important for regenerating biodiversity within coastal forests that have been encroached upon by farmland and ranches. Heather Clancy.

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Energy Monitor Investment Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 473

GreenBiz

APRIL 22, 2021

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. How is that money being spent?

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Biodiversity Carbon-neutral Climate change Investment 513

Impact Alpha

MARCH 15, 2023

Featured: Returns on Inclusion Freada and Mitch Kapor write the book on startup investing to close gaps of equity. The post The Brief: Investing in gap-closing startups, flexible growth capital in Uganda, affordable housing in West Africa, reversing biodiversity loss, deinfluencers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Biodiversity Startups Africa Investment 52

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 75

Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

James, Michael, Cecilia and Stuart reflect on Biodiversity Net Gain finally coming into force, Labour's scaled back green investment plan, and climate impacts on food, housing, and utility costs

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Biodiversity Investment 40

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

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

Improvements in wastewater treatment in the UK over the past 30 years are linked to improvements in river biodiversity, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. The River Ray at Rivermead, Swindon (photo credit: Jo Sayers).

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Biodiversity Organic Investment 183

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

New online tool seeks to help companies and investors mitigate biodiversity-related risks and prepare for the reforms that follow the new Global Biodiversity Framework. WWF unveiled plans for the new tool, dubbed the Biodiversity Risk Filter (BRF), at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.

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Biodiversity Policy Investment Sustainability 67

Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

New report warns biodiversity degradation is set to have significant economic and financial implications. Biodiversity loss poses risks of similar, and perhaps greater magnitude to many countries, while it is also clear that climate and biodiversity are interlinked and often self-reinforcing issues.

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Biodiversity Climate change Government Investment 95

Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The post Move over climate, here come biodiversity disclosures appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Dec. 8 – Even as a mandatory climate disclosure rule proposed by U.S. regulators hits speed bumps, efforts are underway to require.

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Biodiversity Investment 59

Grist

OCTOBER 5, 2023

As millions in public and private investment, boosted by the bipartisan infrastructure law, pour into the region, many people are eyeing these abandoned sites. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline The surprising biodiversity of abandoned coal mines on Oct 5, 2023.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2020

The brewing industry is among the nine critical sectors identified in a report published today by UNEP and the Natural Capital Finance Alliance that highlights need for banks, investors and insurers to set firm targets to reduce biodiversity loss.

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Biodiversity Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 101

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

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Research estimates early-stage investment in start-ups launched to safeguard biodiversity rose by 130 per cent between 2020 and 2022

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Investment Biodiversity 83

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. The yields are seen to be higher if the field is soaked in pesticide.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Soil Policy 81