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Rethinking the meaning of investment in the age of climate change

COMMENT: Yan Swiderski explains what led him to co-found the Global Returns Project, a new initiative aiming to generate $10bn annually to tackle the climate crisis
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  • New drive to police ‘wild west’ of net-zero targets ahead of COP26
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  • Nigel Topping: 'We need a clear-eyed view of what could trip us up in the race to net-zero'

    Terry Slavin, (Dec 3, 2020)

  • Biden’s first steps spur audacity of hope for US climate action proponents

    Diana Rojas, (Nov 30, 2020)

    Even if Democrats fail to secure the Senate in January, there is optimism that the Biden administration’s commitment to addressing climate change is riding economic and financial tailwinds. Diana Rojas reports

  • ‘Coronavirus has pushed efforts to increase access of poorest to energy to the brink’

    Chhavi Sharma, (Nov 26, 2020)

    Comment: Chhavi Sharma of climate solutions charity Ashden says building a more inclusive and diverse energy ecosystem will be critical to reaching SDG7 by 2030

  • BlackRock flexes ESG muscle with vote against P&G on deforestation

    Oliver Balch, (Nov 19, 2020)

    Oliver Balch talks to Ray Cameron, head of stewardship for the Americas, about the asset manager's new approach to demanding greater transparency from companies on ESG

  • Why multilateralism needs to make a comeback at G20

    Paul Polman, (Nov 19, 2020)

    Comment: Paul Polman argues that global leaders must rise to the unprecedented challenges facing humanity by crafting a coordinated international response to Covid-19 that protects both people and planet

  • Why buildings are the linchpin of the EU’s climate and green recovery plans

    Brook Riley, (Nov 12, 2020)

    Comment: Brook Riley of Rockwool Group says the Commission’s Renovation Wave strategy to double renovation rates through performance standards and innovative finance is critical to achieving its 2030 climate goals

  • The Gulf companies innovating to reduce their dependence on desalination

    Nadine Hawa, (Nov 9, 2020)

    Nadine Hawa reports on how companies including Almarai, NAAAS, Majid Al Futtaim Group and the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority are leading a shift to lower water consumption and more sustainable alternatives to thermal desalination

  • Mining firms ‘failing to get to grips with worsening water security crisis’

    Catherine Early, (Nov 8, 2020)

    The sector is facing increasing demand to supply raw materials needed for the energy transition, but its license to operate is threatened by increasing water demand and pollution. Catherine Early reports

  • ‘If we don’t radically change how we do business in the next decade we will run out of time’

    Peter Bakker, (Oct 30, 2020)

    Comment: WBCSD’s Peter Bakker explains why the sustainable business organisation is raising the bar for ambition and action on climate change, nature loss and social equity, and giving its members two years to get into line

  • 'Data can help save the world from climate change – but mind the transparency gap'

    Phil Bruner, (Oct 15, 2020)

    Comment: Phillip Bruner, co-founder and CEO of data software company ENIAN, says Britain and Australia are two countries using shared data and software to promote renewable energy, but opacity is holding back the energy transition in many parts of the world, including the US

  • ‘Building a more equitable, just and sustainable economy is no longer an ideal. It’s imperative’

    Kristen Lang, (Oct 8, 2020)

    Comment: Kristen Lang, senior director of the Ceres Company Network, explains how the Ceres Roadmap 2030 can help companies not only survive, but thrive over the coming decade by changing the way they do business

  • For sustainable, read resilient as companies strengthen relationships with suppliers

    Oliver Balch, (Oct 5, 2020)

    Covid-19 and advances in digitisation have accelerated the move towards more planet- and people-friendly procurement practices that will outlive the immediate crisis, reports Oliver Balch

  • ‘Covid-19 has acted as an accelerator rather than brake on corporate climate action’

    Dan Bakal, (Oct 2, 2020)

    Comment: Dan Bakal of US sustainability non-profit Ceres reflects on Climate Week NYC 2020 and how the big net-zero commitments from the likes of Walmart, Morgan Stanley, Uber and Microsoft demonstrate how the unprecedented events of this year have woken companies up to the urgency of the climate crisis

  • Leaving no one behind in the clean energy revolution

    Mark Hillsdon, (Sep 25, 2020)

    No longer the plucky underdog, the growing renewables industry risks losing its license to operate unless it generates co-benefits. Mark Hillsdon reports on how RE100 members Google, Iron Mountain, Clif Bar, Chanel and Novo Nordisk are amplifying their impact

  • The future of transport: Three ways to make electric vehicles more accessible

    Karen Langford, (Sep 24, 2020)

    Comment: Karen Langford of Vestel argues that accelerating the building of new EV infrastructure will be critical to capitalising on the pandemic’s silver lining of cleaner air quality

  • Claire O'Neill: ‘Companies are more ambitious on climate change than many governments’

    Terry Slavin, (Sep 14, 2020)

    In an interview with Terry Slavin, the high-profile former UK energy minister explains why nature-based solutions are high on her agenda as WBCSD’s new director for energy and climate, and the importance of the UK remaining aligned with the EU on climate post-Brexit

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