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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

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. Abundant research revealing just the urgency and existential nature of the biodiversity crisis has heightened awareness.

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Palo Alto Paying Over $20,000 Annually to Natural Gas Trade Group Fighting Climate Action

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins Nearly a year ago, the city of Palo Alto — home to Stanford University and the unofficial capital of Silicon Valley — joined a handful of other California cities in enacting an all-electric building mandate.

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

Business Green

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. Linking financial instruments to NDCs and nature targets. Difficulties around resource intensive budget tagging and project identification could also be avoided.

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

Business Green

This is undoubtedly true, but it serves to underplay the precise nature of the investment challenge faced by the net zero transition. The report calculates that building a global net zero emission economy by 2050 would require around $110tr in capital investment between 2021 and 2050. warming pathway by 2030.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters.

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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. Abundant research revealing just the urgency and existential nature of the biodiversity crisis has heightened awareness.

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Liz Truss prepares to announce energy price freeze plan

Business Green

And there were conflicting reports over the price tag attached to the new support package. And looking at what is happening in this country - the changes that are taking place - that is why private sector investor is flooding in; more venture capital investment than China itself.". A new nuclear reactor every year.

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