THE CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT The Sustainability Yearbook Companies are making modest progress in their commitments to protect biodiversity and nature, an issue that is capturing more attention in the corporate world as 2022 shapes up to be a pivotal year in the broader quest to halt ecosystem destruction across the globe. Businesses have long harnessed nature’s resou...
READLarry Fink’s call for near-term corporate emissions targets is a subtle but significant escalation of BlackRock using its influence to push for action on climate. Larry Fink, influential financier and head of the investment firm BlackRock Inc., has just raised the corporate stakes on climate change — and chief executives across a wide swath of sectors are likely to pay heed. Bl...
READKey Takeaways At the U.N. conference, asset managers, governments and companies aligned on the use of nature-based tools to tackle climate change. Nearly $20 billion in public and private funding was pledged to halt deforestation. There was widening support for blue bonds, which allow ocean-dependent economies to use the proceeds for marine conservation. Calls to slash energy-r...
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