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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Until very recently, investor demands regarding environmental impact largely have focused on the climate crisis and greenhouse gas emissions. 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.

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These Agribusiness Groups With Ties to Climate Denial are Trying to Influence the US-UK Trade Deal

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 17 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on stories with the theme of 'climate politics'. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. .

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

How the climate crisis will crash the economy. Even before all that, we’d been watching the real-world risks of climate change looming and growing across the United States and around the world. The financial climate, it seems, has been as unforgiving as the atmospheric one. Joel Makower. Mon, 09/14/2020 - 02:11.

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Labor Helps Obama Energy Secretary Push and Profit from 'Net Zero' Fossil Fuels

DeSmogBlog

climate and labor movements to create an equitable and decarbonized economy and move away from fossil fuels to address the climate crisis. Tags: Dentons EJM Associates AFL-CIO IBEW International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers U.S.

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Oil Lobby’s Carbon Capture Solution Hasn’t Consulted Local Nation, Chief Says

DeSmogBlog

The leader of Cold Lake First Nations has revealed the initiator of a major carbon capture project in Northern Alberta has not consulted with local Indigenous communities. We received an initial consultation package very recently, just last week. billion (CAD) price tag by 2030 to fund the project. Pathways estimates a $16.5

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Managing risk, achieving impact: Linking sovereign debt with climate and nature targets

Business Green

Public debt increased by $12tr in 2020 according to the Institute of International Finance, exacerbating already high levels of debt in some emerging markets. It is clear that unprecedented levels of investment will be needed to enable countries to both recover and transition to climate and nature-smart economies.

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Addressing Climate Change and Economic Development at the Same Time

Climate 4.0

What We Can Measure, We Can Address To address this situation, a small group of colleagues and I have developed a group of indices and rankings over the past decade that measure the relative technological progress of nations, and the relative difficulty they face in addressing climate change and economic development at the same time.