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‘The One Planet Summit for Biodiversity was just a start. We need to plug the finance gap for nature'

COMMENT: Nicky Chambers of Global Canopy reflects on a pivotal week, when leaders and investors pledged a raft of new initiatives to scale up funding for nature-based solutions to climate change, from the Prince of Wales' Terra Carta initiative to the Natural Capital Investor Alliance
  • Can UK fishing chart a more sustainable route post-Brexit?

    COMMENT: The UK fishing industry is feeling the squeeze not...

  • Giving nature its due place in race to save the planet

    Amid investor and NGO concerns about greenwash potential...

  • 'The mining sector must come clean about its growing impact...

    Comment: The impact of the extractives sector on forest...

  • How consumers are stepping up to the plate on cutting food waste
  • How Biden’s White House could supercharge the battle against...
  • From 500 litres of water a day to 50: P&G heads up partnership to...

  • Latest issue of The Ethical Corporation looks at companies working to shrink their water footprints

    Terry Slavin, (Nov 10, 2020)

    While corporate reporting on water risk is increasing, action is far behind amid growing scarcity of Earth's most precious resource. This month we profile some that are bucking the trend, and look at how the finance sector is waking up to the biodiversity crisis

  • Connecting the drops in the battle against climate change

    Terry Slavin, (Nov 10, 2020)

    CDP’s Cate Lamb tells Terry Slavin she hopes her new role championing water at next year’s COP26 in Glasgow will lead to joined-up thinking on water’s role in the race to net-zero

  • ‘It’s time for fashion to turn its focus from the catwalk to cutting water pollution’

    Cate Lamb, (Nov 9, 2020)

    Comment: Cate Lamb, head of water risk at CDP, says with only 10% of fashion firms showing awareness of their environmental impacts, the sector urgently needs a redesign

  • Working to protect Earth’s most precious raw material

    Angeli Mehta, (Nov 9, 2020)

    Angeli Mehta reports on how L’Oréal, Microsoft and BASF are cutting water use in their own operations – and beyond

  • Scorched earth strategies: How Cargill, Unilever and Diageo are cutting their water footprints

    Mark Hillsdon, (Nov 8, 2020)

    Agriculture accounts for 70% of water use, yet despite increasing reporting of water risk to CDP, water withdrawals by companies in the food and drink and agriculture sectors continue to rise. Mark Hillsdon reports on three companies that are taking a restorative approach

  • Finance firms come together in bid to overcome barriers to banking on biodiversity

    Angeli Mehta, (Nov 8, 2020)

    The World Bank's 2030 Water Resources Group and Ceres' Valuing Water Finance Taskforce are among groups coordinating collective action to address water scarcity as a systemic risk. Angeli Mehta reports

  • 'Tackling palm and timber deforestation is a good start. Now brands must zero in on soy and cattle'

    Ling Sin Fai Lam, (Nov 5, 2020)

    Comment: Ling Sin Fai Lam of CDP says there is an urgent need to hold cattle and soy industries to the same high standards set for other forest risk commodities in supply chains

  • ‘We can win the war on plastic waste if we marshal the power of finance and markets’

    Pedro Moura Costa, (Oct 27, 2020)

    Comment: BVRio’s Pedro Moura Costa says the 3R Initiative, backed by Danone, Nestlé and Tetra Pak, has created the first global marketplace for the circular economy with the Circular Action Hub

  • ‘The finance sector must go beyond business as usual to solve the biodiversity loss crisis’

    Eric Usher and Corli Pretorius, (Oct 15, 2020)

    Comment: Eric Usher of the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative and Corli Pretorius of the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre say banks should urgently set targets for financing the protection of nature in the critical next decade in the same way that many have set climate targets

  • ‘Covid-19 is breaking our food systems and supply chains. We must act now’

    Dave Crean, (Sep 10, 2020)

    Comment: Mars Inc’s Dave Crean calls for greater public-private collaboration to eradicate hunger by ensuring open access to safe food for all far beyond the pandemic

  • Big data deployed to increase traceability in bid to save the deep blue sea

    Angeli Mehta, (Sep 1, 2020)

    Angeli Mehta looks at the new surveillance technologies being used in the battle to end illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and how the biggest seafood players are collaborating to shine light on murky waters through the Stockholm Resilience Centre-convened Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship

  • Using blockchain to bring transparency from sea to plate

    Angeli Mehta, (Sep 1, 2020)

    By empowering consumers to make more sustainable choices in the fish they buy, the impact for biodiversity in the oceans could be profound, reports Angeli Mehta

  • Time ‘is rapidly running out to save oceans’

    Angeli Mehta, (Sep 1, 2020)

    Protecting at least 30% of oceans by 2030 is critical to prevent the collapse of Earth’s life-support system, but with destructive activities like bottom-trawling happening even in the 7% of areas that are meant to be protected, the challenge is huge. Angeli Mehta reports

  • Fashion 'slow to act on ocean plastic pollution from microfibres'

    Mark Hillsdon, (Aug 30, 2020)

    With textiles the biggest source of the 1.4 quadrillion chemically laced microfibres that are floating in our seas and entering the food chain, Mark Hillsdon looks at nascent efforts by the likes of H&M and other Fashion Pact members to clean up its act

  • Can sustainable aquaculture feed the world?

    James Richens, (Aug 26, 2020)

    With wild-fish stocks falling, a huge increase in farmed fish will be needed to meet the protein needs of the planet. James Richens reports on how the search for sustainable sources is focusing on the deep oceans, on land and even the laboratory

  • Business must listen to land defenders if there is to be any chance of halting climate breakdown

    Rachel Cox, (Jul 28, 2020)

    Rachel Cox of Global Witness warns that those who stand on the frontline of environmental defence must be protected, as new figures reveal 2019 was the most dangerous year on record for indigenous and community activists

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