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A new platform aims to help financial institutions uncover their exposure to environmental risks from palm oil, soy, cattle trading and timber, amid deforestation fears.
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Many consumer-facing companies with recognizable brands are taking action, but companies lower down in the supply chain are not, a new study finds.
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Mars, HP and 88 other companies already have approved science-based carbon reduction targets.
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The research could inform future land-use decisions.
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In this week's episode, a GreenBuild recap, how Canopy's founder is winning converts on deforestation and why island microgrids are essential.
by Joel Makower
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A new network has bonded together to use finance to weaken the devastation of forest fires.
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More than 190 governments, businesses and civil society organizations have committed to ending commodity-driven deforestation by 2020.
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It's vines versus old-growth forests, a biodiversity debate with consequences for steelhead trout, mountain lions and spotted owls.
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In this week's episode: Michelin, GM halt deforestation; a G20-approved guide to disclosure; and the troubling new math on carbon reduction.
by Joel Makower
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Deforestation has accelerated in the rubber producing countries of Southeast Asia to feed global demand for tires. But Michelin and now General Motors have launched zero deforestation rubber procurement policies.
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The economic benefits of restoring degraded or deforested land are an estimated $84 billion, roughly the entire gross domestic product of Sri Lanka in 2015.
by Andrew Wu
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The multinational personal care companies are among new supporters of the CDP's forest supply chain initiative, which requires deeper disclosure from key suppliers.
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Sponsored: Aligning the interests of companies and communities to protect, restore and conserve land should be part of every company's commodity supply-chain strategy.
by Dewi Bramono
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The trees planted under this targeted approach do more than offset emissions. They make supply chains more resilient.
by Meg Wilcox
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Don't brush off tree planting as mere greenwashing. PUR Projet has helped companies offset an admirable 1.4 million tons of carbon, and counting.
by Meg Wilcox
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Corporate exposure to “forest risk commodities” like soy and timber could top $900 billion per year. Now, as institutional investors push companies in all sectors to come clean on their climate-change liabilities and exposure, their impacts on forests could become clearer as well.
by Steve Zwick
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Nonprofit canopy's founder shares 5 lessons to accelerate sustainability on fabric and forests.
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Only 17 percent of funding needs for forest restoration are met each year — and very little of that coming from the private sector.
by Sofia Faruqi
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Dandelion, Raaka Chocolate and Valrhona are among the chocolate makers eyeing ways to combat poverty and renew the land.
by Meg Wilcox
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Scores of companies have made hundreds of deforestation commitments, and almost 60 percent of those commitments have a deadline of 2020 or earlier.
by Steve Zwick
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It will take better links with transit for existing transit infrastructure to work in the future.
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Increasing urban consumption contributes massively to deforestation, a major source of emissions, despite growing sustainability efforts.
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Hundreds of companies say they're taking action, but in our analysis only 35 percent offer proof.