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Why the Burden on Business Women to ‘do it all’ Must Stop

Gender norms are stunting women-led enterprises, as revealed in a new report from CARE’s Ignite program. The research confirms that women entrepreneurs worldwide are so bound by gender norms, they often cannot grow their businesses – meaning less income for the household, less employment in the community and less money into the local economy.
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The Unrecognised Intersections Between Climate Change and Modern Slavery

How climate change and modern slavery intersect, and why this intersection must be recognised by governments and businesses. The world cannot properly tackle climate change without including efforts to end modern slavery.
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Who’s Putting the ‘S’ in ESG?

Lately, ESG is mostly in the news for the wrong reasons. Reading certain articles, it can seem as though some companies are happy to reap the benefits of seeming good, while shifting expenses (e.g., pollution) onto society. However, a lot of the negative coverage references ESG in its role as a guidance for investors (i.e., ESG for Assurance), despite the fact that ESG has evolved into an “organisational moral compass and set of principles.” Another facet of ESG – ESG for Impact, is more relevant to solving today’s greatest social challenges.
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I’ll Be There For You Even When You’re On The Other Side

The insights in the Nudges and Bridges series aim to help everyone, including business people, understand how they can contribute to peace. Of course, friendship is its own bridge with others, but could one be friends with someone who is your opposite? With whom you disagree on just about everything? With someone on “the other side?” The answer is yes and that’s what this video is about.
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COP27: A Historic But Insufficient Move Towards Climate Justice

For two weeks in November colleagues from Practical Action have been in Sharm El-Sheikh at the UN climate change conference, COP27. We were there to ensure that the voices of the people we work with in some of the world’s most climate vulnerable places were heard as global leaders took decisions about their futures.
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How Businesses Can Make Their Giving Count

Businesses give billions to nonprofits every year, but are they helping or hurting? We look at some of the pitfalls of traditional tied funding approaches, and introduce businesses to the concept of unrestricted funding as a way to support nonprofits to achieve real impact.
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Deeper Collaboration to Cut Value Chain Emissions: Are We Missing a Trick? 

Is it even possible to work in deeper, genuine partnership with suppliers on net zero alongside a parallel commercial relationship? Jenny Ekelund sees encouraging signs that it is, and shares three primary scope 3 partnership models that are emerging.
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Farmers Hold the Key to the Climate Crisis – If Only World Leaders at COP27 Would Listen

The world’s smallholder farmers and agricultural workers are ready, willing, and able to help confront climate change where it matters most, protecting their communities, preserving their livelihoods, and safeguarding our planet’s food supply. Nevertheless, the question remains: are our leaders willing to let them?
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It’s Time for Companies to Step Up on Net Zero

Companies in the richest countries have still not agreed to climate measures that are in line with staying below 1.5 degrees. Danielle Smith and Hilde Stroot welcome new guidance from a UN panel, released at COP27, to push action by firms on corporate net-zero plans – and set out five key ways in which its recommendations will lead to climate justice.
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Transitioning to Net Zero in the Middle East and North Africa: Three Focus Points

As Egypt readies itself to host COP27 and the UAE for COP28, Adithya Subramoni argues that the MENA region must recognise the social dimension in action on climate, emphasise affordability and accessibility in the drive towards renewables, and seize the potential for the transition to create a large number of good jobs.
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Why Businesses Must Focus on Putting People at the Heart of Climate Action Strategies

We’ve heard many pledges by businesses and governments to go further, create real and lasting change in cocoa supply chains, and ensure a better future for farming communities and our climate. However, turning those promises into action remains a challenge.
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The Two-Eyed View of Climate Justice: Combine Net Zero and Poverty Zero Goals

The climate challenge is encouraging us to work together in meaningful ways, yet the path to climate justice globally requires us to go one step further, combining net zero and poverty zero goals.
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Climate-Smart Supply Chains: Lessons for COP27 from Fairtrade

Living at the forefront of the climate crisis, farmers and workers in low-income countries are uniquely positioned to address climate challenges. Yet with many struggling to earn a living income or wage, they often lack the resources to turn their informed thinking on climate adaptation and mitigation into action.
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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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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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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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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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