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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Nordea Asset Management, which manages roughly $280 billion, gave several reasons for the decision, including JBS’s links to farms involved in Amazon deforestation. . Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio.

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How traceability can tackle cattle-driven deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Business Green

IDH's global director of landscapes Matthew Spencer makes the case for 'farm to shelf' tracing of cattle in Brazil to combat deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. It was a big moment for both the Brazilian cattle sector and for all of us who want to stop illegal deforestation in the Amazon.

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California Polluters May Soon Buy Carbon 'Offsets' From the Amazon — Is That Ethical?

DeSmogBlog

Tags: carbon offsets California Air Resources Board tropical deforestation Amazon rainforest

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Op-ed: Geoengineering Distracts From Real Climate Solutions While Giving Cover to the Fossil Fuel Industry

DeSmogBlog

To name a few: acid rain , deforestation, and climate change. Tags: solar geoengineering geoengineering bill gates David Keith American Enterprise Institute ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) rex tillerson Covering Climate Now 2019 Reversing such problems is, on its face, quite simple. Stop releasing smog-forming pollution.

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Coffee prices spike, thanks to climate change

AGreenLiving

If melting polar ice caps and a deforested Amazon seem too far away to be real, many consumers may soon get an up-close and personal taste of climate change in their coffee cups. But he’s more worried about climate change than about the price tag. Coffee bean prices are about to spike. per kilogram. They’ve lost their whole livelihood.”

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

AGreenLiving

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top “theme” only means people have begun talking about it. Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio.

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How investing 1.3 per cent of GDP could decarbonise the global economy - and unlock massive financial savings

Business Green

Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs. It calculates up to $50bn a year of support for coal phase out plans will be required, alongside $130bn to support zero deforestation initiatives, and around $100bn to fund carbon removals. Again, it sounds like a lot but it is equivalent to around 1.3