Climate Action

Climate Action to Alleviate Poverty

Matthew Spencer

Climate and Landscape-Level Collaboration with Matthew Spencer

Matthew Spencer, Global Director of Landscapes at IDH – The Sustainable Trade Initiative talks climate & landscape-level collaboration.
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Linking Social and Environmental Impact for a Fairer, More Resilient Future

Business Fights Poverty explores how companies can link social and environmental impact to drive a fairer, more resilient future. Using insights from the 5 Bridges to 2045 framework and Natura’s pioneering Integrated Profit & Loss (iP&L) model, this article shows how valuing natural, social, and human capital can transform decision-making, performance, and long-term sustainability.
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Bonsucro and Better Cotton Unite to Strengthen Climate Resilience in Agriculture

Bonsucro and Better Cotton Partner to Help Farmers Tackle Climate Challenges

As climate risks intensify across global agriculture, Bonsucro and partners are expanding the Climate Resilience Platform (CRP) to equip farmers with actionable, science-based tools. Through open-access collaboration with CGIAR, Better Cotton, and leading research organisations, the initiative empowers producers to anticipate climate impacts, strengthen livelihoods, and accelerate resilient, sustainable supply chains across the world.
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Why Landscape Initiatives Are Becoming More Relevant as Agri-Food Business Supply Risks IncreaseWhy Landscape Initiatives Are Becoming More Relevant as Agri-Food Business Supply Risks Increase

Why Landscape Initiatives Are Becoming More Relevant as Agri-Food Business Supply Risks Increase

IDH shares its top 10 lessons from convening landscape initiatives for the last 10 years. The results across a range of landscapes show that greater impact can be achieved together. The cost and risk sharing that landscape approaches allow makes them more relevant to agri-food businesses as physical supply risks from extreme weather increase.
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Lasting Conservation in the Amazon Starts with Better Livelihoods

This year’s COP30 conference is shining a light on the importance of the Amazon rainforest. Evidence from Peru highlights the critical role that economic opportunity must play in Amazon conservation–and how investment can help to unlock them.
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From the Highway to the Blue Zone: Real-World Signals for Resilient Business

From the Highway to the Blue Zone: Real-World Signals for Resilient Business

This article follows a 2,700-kilometre motorhome journey to COP30, where Fundação Dom Cabral and partners used the road as a living climate laboratory. Crossing four biomes and nine cities, the team gathered real-world evidence on resilience, local innovation, and community risks, offering business and city leaders practical lessons for climate action and resilient development.
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Banzeiro da Esperança COP30 Climate Strategies

From the River to the C-Suite: What the Amazon Teaches Business About Climate Strategies

Written from a riverboat en route to COP30, this unique article explores how business leaders can draw practical, investable lessons from the Amazon. It urges companies to link emissions goals with local livelihoods, co-create with communities, and view nature as infrastructure. A powerful reminder that regeneration must be built from the ground up.
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Strengthening Supply Chains by Tackling Gender Inequality and the Climate Crisis

As world leaders gather at COP, Amanda Smith, Global Head of Social at Diageo, shares insights into Diageo and CARE’s shared ambition to build resilient supply chains by tackling gender inequality and climate vulnerability together.
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Beyond Net Zero

Beyond Net Zero: Building Transitions Where People and Nature Can Thrive

As COP30 unfolds in Brazil, the world faces a pivotal moment. We have missed the 1.5°C target, and while the race to decarbonise is intensifying, emissions cuts alone will not create resilient economies or equitable livelihoods. The Partnership Collective argues that to truly move beyond net zero, we must redesign the systems that connect people, nature, and business so that all can thrive.
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Climate Commitments

How Credible Sustainability Systems Strengthen Climate Commitments

How can businesses meet growing demands for credible climate action? As COP30 nears, this article explores how robust sustainability systems—like those championed by ISEAL—are helping companies navigate Scope 3 emissions, build trust, and drive just transitions. Learn how standards, traceability, and inclusive frameworks are shaping a resilient and transparent global climate response.
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people-centred climate action

Putting People First in Climate Action: How Fair Finance is Building Resilience Across East Africa

As climate change intensifies, Shared Interest supports farmers in East Africa with fair finance and training to build local resilience. From vegetable producers in Rwanda to coffee growers in Uganda, the focus is on community-led adaptation and climate-smart farming. Putting people at the centre of climate action is key to sustainable, inclusive progress.
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Women and Climate Supply Chains

Investing in Women-Led Organisations to Fight Climate Impacts in Global Supply Chain Communities 

The human toll of climate impacts presents specific challenges for women workers and their communities, especially in climate-vulnerable countries. Climate action and investments must not only focus on mitigation but also address the unique impacts on women and the connection between workplace and community across issues like women’s health, violence, migration, forced labor, among others. 
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Agroecology and food systems

Agroecology: The Pathway to Sustainable Food Systems

Agroecology is a powerful pathway to climate-resilient, sustainable food systems. Brenda Huerta of Fairtrade International explores how soil health, biodiversity, and farmer agency are interconnected, highlighting successful examples from banana cooperatives in Latin America. As COP30 approaches, she calls for bold investment in agroecology as a foundation for social justice, environmental regeneration, and resilient livelihoods.
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Investing in Resilience Corridors: Putting People at the Center of Climate and Stability

How can we unlock climate finance for the world’s most fragile regions? Nuru is showing the way with a model that supports professional cooperatives to lead nature-based solutions. Backed by blended finance and delivering over 80% of carbon revenues to local communities, Nuru’s “resilience corridors” offer a blueprint for stability, sustainability, and shared prosperity.
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Building Prosperity from the Ground Up: Helping Farmers Thrive

This article explores how smallholder cotton farmers can build long-term prosperity through traceability, climate resilience, and inclusive supply chains. Highlighting CottonConnect’s approach—from regenerative farming to digital tools—it makes the case that empowering farmers is essential to global sustainability. When farmers thrive, businesses prosper—and prosperity becomes a shared outcome.
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Young Leaders Driving Environmental Change Win The Iris Prize 2025

The Iris Prize 2025 celebrates young environmental leaders driving change in Mongolia, Mexico, and the Philippines. With £718,000 in support since 2022, the award funds youth-led projects tackling air pollution, river restoration, and marine conservation. The initiative highlights the urgent need to back youth innovation for a sustainable future.
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Highway crossing a large river 5 Bridges

Views from the Global Goals Summit on Business Fights Poverty’s New Report: Making the Five Bridges to 2045 a Reality

At this year’s Business Fights Poverty Global Goals Summit, a number of sessions turned their attention to the launch of our new Five Bridges to 2045: How Business Can Build a Fairer, More Resilient Future. Eighteen experts from our global network took part in online sessions and an in-person event hosted with Barclays in New York, where representatives from Ikea, Natura, Vodafone Foundation, ABF Sugar and Fundación Paraguaya shared their perspectives on how to bring the report’s vision of embedding social impact and sustainability into core business closer to reality.
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Collaborative Climate Action

Collaborative Climate Action Starts with Workers

Climate change is already harming garment workers—especially women—through extreme heat, flooding, illness, lost wages, and increased violence. RISE’s new research reveals how climate risks cascade through workers’ lives and offers actionable steps for brands and manufacturers. The call is clear: climate action in the garment sector must start with listening to workers.
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Penelope Gregoriou and Muhammad Hassan Dajana.

The Future of Climate Action: Youth Leadership and Systems Change with Penelope and Hassan

Social Impact Pioneers: Penelope Gregoriou & Muhammad Hassan Dajana explore how the young leaders reshape climate action & social innovation
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Enabling a Fairer Transition and Climate Response

A project to build the resilience to climate change of coastal communities in Sierra Leone, and a partnership with world-leading researchers on how the private sector can contribute to a fair and just energy transition, are just two examples of AXA XL’s work on social impact. As part of managing the risks and seizing the opportunities of the transition and navigating the extreme weather events from a changing climate, AXA XL are working to deliver positive social impact for people and communities around the world and accelerate an inclusive transition.
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