Natural Capital

Giving nature its due place in race to save the planet
Terry Slavin, (Dec 10, 2020)

Amid investor and NGO concerns about greenwash potential from offsets, Terry Slavin untangles the slew of intersecting new initiatives to bring credibility to corporate pledges to protect biodiversity, including the Science Based Targets Network and Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures
'The mining sector must come clean about its growing impact on deforestation'
Morgan Gillespy, (Nov 25, 2020)

Comment: The impact of the extractives sector on forest loss has been largely overlooked, says CDP's Morgan Gillespy. With the New York Declaration on Forests' goal of halving deforestation by 2020 in tatters, there's an urgent need to press laggards for action
How consumers are stepping up to the plate on cutting food waste
Ignacio Gavilan, (Nov 24, 2020)

COMMENT: Ignacio Gavilan of The Consumer Goods Forum says Covid-19-related shortages mean shoppers are more accepting of wonky veg schemes introduced by UK retailers like Tesco
How Biden’s White House could supercharge the battle against deforestation
Niki Mardas, (Nov 20, 2020)

Comment: Niki Mardas of Global Canopy says the president-elect’s promise of $20bn to protect the Amazon is welcome, but US leadership could be most decisive in targeting trade in forest-risk commodities like soy, palm and beef
From 500 litres of water a day to 50: P&G heads up partnership to stave off next Day Zero
Angeli Mehta, (Nov 10, 2020)

Angel Mehta talks to P&G's Frantz Beznik about how the 50L Home Coalition brings together companies, regulators and governments to think big on tackling the urban water crisis
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

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