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California Advances Global Climate Leadership Through Expanded Partnership with China
Governor Newsom and China’s Minister of Ecology and Environment sign Memorandum of Understanding on climate change and the environment in virtual meeting. MOU includes new focus on collaboration and strategies to achieve carbon neutrality, promote nature-based solutions, and advance climate-resilient infrastructure.
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Apple & partners launch $200 million Restore Fund to accelerate natural solutions to climate change
Apple today announced a first-of-its-kind carbon removal initiative — called the Restore Fund — that will make investments in forestry projects to remove carbon from the atmosphere while generating a financial return for investors.
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Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2022
With spiking global food and fuel prices, UN fears conflict in Ukraine dramatically worsens the economic outlook and the risk of widespread debt crises.
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Canada Introduces Mandatory Climate Disclosures for Banks, Insurance Companies Beginning 2024
Canada will require banks and insurance companies to provide disclosures on their climate-related risks and exposures beginning in 2024, according to the federal government’s newly released Budget 2022. The budget also outlines over $9 billion in proposed funding to address climate change, and plans for a new green bond offering in the upcoming year.
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World Health Day 2022: 7 April 2022 Our planet, our health
Are we able to reimagine a world where clean air, water and food are available to all? Where economies are focused on health and well-being? Where cities are livable and people have control over their health and the health of the planet?
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BYD announced to stop production of fuel vehicles, the world’s first
On April 3, BYD officially announced: “According to the company’s strategic development needs, the production of fuel vehicles will be stopped from March 2022.”
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Lifting 800 Million People Out of Poverty – New Report Looks at Lessons from China’s Experience
Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million
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Microplastics found in human blood for first time
Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people tested.
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Sustainability Reporting Frameworks Converging: IFRS, GRI Agree to Align Disclosure Standards
In the latest move to aimed at harmonizing disparate sustainability reporting systems, the IFRS Foundation and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) announced today a new agreement to align their align capital market and multi-stakeholder standards for sustainability disclosure.
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The 100 most sustainable corporations of 2022
Which companies earned a spot on Corporate Knights' index of the world's greenest firms?