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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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‘Uninsurable and Unhedgeable’: Central Banks Warn of Financial Crisis from Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins A future climate disaster, or “green swan” event, could bring down the global financial system, according to a new report from the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ), an international financial organization that serves as a bank for central banks around the world.

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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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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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Net Zero Festival: Free passes now available to flagship climate event

Business Green

Confirmed speakers include climate scientist Michael E Mann, former Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd, Schroders' CEO Peter Harrison, Bank of America President (International) Bernard Mensah, Nomad Foods CEO Stefan Descheemaeker, NatWest CEO Alison Rose, Bertrand Piccard of the Solar Impulse Foundation, and many others.

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

Business Green

With attempts to deny the seriousness of the climate crisis and discredit the feasibility of clean technologies overwhelmed by observable reality those opposed to climate action have increasingly turned to questioning the cost of decarbonisation. Moreover, this price tag is for capital investments, not costs.

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Media Brief: Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations

Clean Energy Canada

Canadians will spend 12% less on energy overall than they do today when they switch off fossil fuels to power their homes, vehicles and businesses with clean electricity, according to a report from the Canadian Climate Institute. billion, in addition to $3 billion of financing support from the Canada Infrastructure Bank.