Climate & Environment

Environmental Strategies to Fight Poverty

It’s time to scale up regenerative agriculture: a win-win for farmers, food companies, and our environment

Regenerative agriculture is an opportunity to create positive environmental outcomes through agriculture while supporting farmers’ livelihoods and achieving truly sustainable financial returns. A shift to regenerative agriculture is the way forward, and it requires a fundamental transformation of our agriculture system, from one focused exclusively on maximizing yield and efficiency to one that pursues economic, environmental and social outcomes.
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Unleash the Accountant Warriors

The journey towards net-zero emissions will be hard and filled with complications. Business leaders need to be rewarded for achieving decarbonization in the same way they are used to for financial targets. But one more thing is needed: These leaders also need to be recognized for trade-offs they make when seeking to manage through these KPIs.
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Business Fights Poverty Rebuild Better Summit: Climate Justice 2021

Access resources on how business can ensure people are at the centre of climate action, from the Business Fights Poverty Climate Justice Summit, which
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A fair trade: putting farmers first in the fight for climate justice

The 22 February marked the start of Fairtrade Fortnight, the annual celebration of all things Fairtrade. It’s a time when individuals, companies and groups across the UK come together to share the stories of the people behind our food and products, and explore how trade justice can be part of the solution to the many challenges they face.
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Gender is a significant factor in private sector and disaster management

The Connecting Business initiative (CBi) new publication presents the importance of gender in private sector and disaster management, as well as the interconnections between these fields. It includes an introduction to the topic, the results of the research, a special chapter on COVID-19, three case studies and a mapping of close to 200 resources.
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A just transition is undermined by a disconnect between human rights and climate issues

In this crossover between WBA’s Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) and the Automotive Benchmark’s Performance Update for 2020, the research raised a startling outcome: almost no correlation could be found between a company’s relative performance on either benchmark, suggesting an alarming disconnect between actions on climate and human rights issues.
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Developing your social impact strategy with Lisa Manley

How to develop a social impact strategy for business? Lisa Manley, Global Vice President of Sustainability from Mars shares all.
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What are Green Skills?

Simply put, green skills are the knowledge, abilities, values and attitudes needed to live in, develop and support a sustainable and resource-efficient society.
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Unlocking the power of data for sustainability systems

With data being described as ‘the currency of the future’, it’s vital that sustainability systems make the most of their data assets to support the environmental and social transformations our world needs. Read more on unlocking the power of data for sustainability systems from ISEAL’s Robert Lefebure.
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We can’t ignore mindsets if we want to reset capitalism

Does the disruption created by Covid-19 create opportunities to reset capitalism in the long term, or will inertia prevail? That is the key New Year question as we look beyond the Covid crisis to possible future pathways. Sally Uren and Caroline Ashley of Forum for the Future, argue that what happens next in capitalism could be down to hearts and minds, not the market
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Kicking our addiction to plastics

The pandemic has seen plastic waste skyrocket, while corporates continue to pump out single-use plastic packaging that’s found dumped all around the world. But a new inter-disciplinary research network at the University of Birmingham is looking to tackle the problem with infinitely recyclable polymers and collaborative projects with business.
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Clearing the Air in Darfur

In Darfur, shared knowledge and improved technology is making cooking at home safer and cheaper. Practical Action teamed up with the Women’s Development Association to educate communities and introduce new Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) stoves in El Fasher. Reducing carbon emissions and giving thousands of families clean homes, clean lungs and more money to spend on essentials.
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Impact enterprises collaborate with the public sector to provide sanitation services

Solutions to the global sanitation crisis can be generated by a multilateral approach, blending the expertise, research and support of the private sector with the focus and structure of the public sector to enable innovative local enterprises to deliver long-term, desirable solutions. This approach is increasingly being implemented, with a number of examples of businesses, enterprises and public sector stakeholders working together to deliver lasting responses to the sanitation crisis.
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Where Now 2021 – Webinar 2

Our webinar explored “Understanding the critical role of mindsets in driving a just and regenerative future” and examined how mindsets shape changes and support
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What we need to transition to a circular economy

Circularity has become a trending topic in the business world in recent years. Earlier this year, 50 CEOS signed a letter to the Financial Times where they committed to accelerating their company’s transition to a more circular one, however companies still have a long way to go when it comes tracking progress in circularity.
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Renewable energy investments can boost the Caribbean’s sustainable recovery: Innovative financing approaches

Unlocking an economic boost by investing in renewable energy can be a pillar of the COVID-19 recovery, but will require significant work to align actors across the sector. Read more in this article, the second in a series on Renewable energy investments, from the Clinton Global Initiative and Resilience Capital Ventures.
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Renewable energy investments can boost the Caribbean’s sustainable recovery: A green economic stimulus

The growing renewable energy sector offers a significant opportunity for advancing green recovery and economic diversification in the Caribbean. The disruption occasioned by the pandemic could be a kickstart to speed up these shifts. Read more in this article, the first in a series on Renewable energy investments, from the Clinton Global Initiative and Resilience Capital Ventures.
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How solar-powered tablets are educating rural communities about COVID-19

In the wake of the outbreak of the novel corona virus and realizing the need to disseminate information about the spread and prevention of COVID19 and other health-related issues, the Community Tablet initiative, with support received from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), is conducting digital campaigns in communities that are otherwise excluded from digital information.
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Informal women workers organize and learn to safely recycle e-waste in Manila

As the world continues to produce, buy, and discard newer and more advanced electronic devices and appliances, countries are also facing the growing problem of what do with the waste generated when these products are discarded. If not properly processed, this e-waste (also known as waste electrical and electronic equipment or WEEE), poses a serious threat to the environment and to public health, especially in developing countries where e-waste is often shipped.
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Investing in inclusion delivers green and fair outcomes

While calls to ‘build back better’ from COVID-19 are now reverberating across parliamentary halls and board rooms the world over, for many decision makers the question is: how? Involving and investing in small enterprises is part of the answer.
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