Zahid Torres-Rahman

Innovative Solutions to Tackle Deforestation

Halting deforestation and restoring degraded forests is critical to overcoming the climate emergency and reversing biodiversity loss. Many in the ISEAL community are embracing innovative solutions to contribute towards the sustainable management of forests.
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Honouring Climate Promises: An Open Letter from Fairtrade

In an Open Letter, Fairtrade calls on Member States at COP27 to ‘honor their climate promises’ and ‘act now’ for our planet’s farmers.
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CEOs as Stewards of Future Generations

There is an increasing focus across sectors to make fairer decisions for current and future generations. The 2022 CEO Purpose Report reaffirms this. All of the evidence suggests that the tide on intergenerational fairness is running fast. For businesses that are purpose-driven, this represents a significant opportunity to be stewards of future generations. 
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Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Poor People

There is overwhelming global agreement that the effects of climate change disproportionately affect the poor and three-quarters of people around the world say that rich countries must support them to deal with the effects of climate change, according to a recent global poll by Business Fights Poverty and GlobeScan.
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Africa’s Farmers Need Climate Finance. The Private Sector Must Step Up.

COP27 will once again spur discussions about financing climate change mitigation and adaptation. As those conversations happen, we must not lose sight of the vital need to identify financing solutions that empower smallholders on the frontlines of climate change to make their farms more resilient, regenerative, and profitable.
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The Paradox of ESG

Can for-profit businesses really aid in preserving the environment? The practice of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment has long been plagued by the question. You could have assumed the answer was Yes based on the euphoric increase in everything ESG. But when attention turns from words to actions, the inconsistencies in ESG are becoming glaringly obvious.
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Climate Clock

The Climate Clock is Ticking

Ahead of another UN climate conference, Fairtrade once again urges governments for concrete action… but time is running out. While the setting has once again changed – this year, Member States, climate activists and civil society actors will descend on the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh – the purpose of the gathering has not: inching forward to a climate resolution that maintains global temperatures below the 1.5C° threshold. Each year the mission remains the same; each year the urgency increases.
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Rethinking Shelter: Bangladesh’s New Approach to Protecting Lives and Livelihoods

BRAC and the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) are working together to model and scale up efforts to build climate migrant-friendly cities in Bangladesh, where catastrophic weather events have pushed migrants into overcrowded urban centers. In this article, BRAC expert Dr Md Liakath Ali, explores how a locally led adaptation solution – the mini cyclone shelter – is revolutionizing disaster management in Bangladesh, and setting an example for the world.
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Three Actions for Business in the Face of the Global Polycrisis

If you’re struggling to wrap your head around the multiple crises facing the world right now, the phrase “ global polycrisis ” may help you get a sense of just how truly awful things are.
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Why is Sustainability a Concept Closer to JUSTICE than to the ENVIRONMENT?

Environmental protection such as packing, renewable energy, climate action, water, and waste management have dominated the sustainability mindset. Today, many people, including experts, thought leaders, and even some sustainability gurus, use the terms “sustainability” and “environmental protection” as synonyms. And they aren’t. Sustainability is a broader concept, and the level of success in achieving it relies on proper understanding.
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Gender Equity with Rani and Deepika, IFC

What does gender equity mean? How far have we progressed towards gender equality? And how can we sensitively transfer learning from one region to another when tackling gender equity? These are just some of the questions this podcast tackles.
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Access to Menstrual Health & Hygiene Products in Rural Ethiopia

Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is a term used to encapsulate the broader systemic factors that link menstruation with health, well-being, equity, empowerment, and individual rights. Leveraging their expertise in market sanitation in Ethiopian communities, a team of iDE-ers sought to expand the organization’s approach through an exploratory study of MHH.
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How the Climate Justice Framework Helps put People at the Heart of Net Zero Ambitions

Climate change and inequality are two of the biggest challenges of our time. Tackling one without the other is increasingly seen as not an option, including for business. The Business and Climate Justice Framework helps businesses identify both the opportunities of putting people at the centre of their climate ambitions and the risks of inaction.
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Making the Care Economy Everyone’s Business

Help us drive gender equity: Please take our survey to help us better understand business motivations for addressing the care economy and how entrepreneurs innovating in this space could support your business. 
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Sustainable Supply Chains: Future Proofing by Farmer-Focusing

Gas prices. Food prices. Inflationary prices. Downward price pressure. Upward price pressure. Global supply chains. On and on it goes, with each new headline revealing a business environment stripped of its old rhythm. The environment feels particularly chaotic for any business dependent on functioning supply chains (i.e. virtually all of them).
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On How Rules Become Bridges Rather than Road Blocks Or Dams

The insights in the Nudges and Bridges series aim to help everyone, including business people, understand how they can contribute to peace. Rules can get a bad name. We often don’t like rules, but rules can actually create bridges for people in a couple of ways.
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Disability Access with Ceri Davies

How can business better support people with disabilities and access issues? There are an estimated 1 billion people globally experiencing some form of disability. Though accessibility issues are inherently personal, with so many people face extra challenges to navigate our world – how can we all better support each other
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Companies Need to Wake up to the Urgency of Ending Deforestation in Supply Chains. Here’s How

There is one thing companies can do right now that will help the global community meet the interwoven targets of addressing the risks of nature loss and climate change: halt deforestation and ecosystem conversion in agricultural and forestry supply chains.
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Understanding Sustainable Finance with Namita Vikas

Sustainable finance; blended finance; and green loans are just a few terms that we will be unwrapping in this podcast. Get ready for a 101 in sustainable finance – the tools financial experts are using to accelerate the money we need to fund commercially viable social and environmental impacts. And in particular, we will be deep diving into how to unlock finance for a green transition – so that no one is left behind in the transition to a green economy.
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The ‘Big How’ for Business: Putting Strategy into Practice in the Face of Urgency and Disruption

As global challenges intensify, impactful implementation has never been more important, but also never more challenging. Here, James Payne at Forum for the Future, considers the ‘Big How’ of putting ambitious strategy into action to deliver real impact at scale and pace.
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