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Investing in the blue economy: Growth and opportunity in a sustainable ocean economy
The ocean remains one of the least developed regions on earth. This is about to change. The ocean and its inestimable pool of resources represents a new economic frontier for …
The landscape for impact investing in South Asia
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), in partnership with Dalberg Global Development Advisors, published the full release of The Landscape for Impact Investing in South Asia, a "state of the …
CLEAR Info: Investment strategies incorporating environmental operational risk appraisal data
CLEAR Info is a project that aims to demonstrate a system for integrating company and site level environmental data into decision making. Part of this involves using operational risk appraisal …
Novo Nordisk’s environmental profit and loss account
The Novo Nordisk Environmental Profit and Loss Account (E P&L) is a response to PUMA's call for contributions to the E P&L methodology and the expert review of PUMA's E …
Flagship programmes: Focusing corporate social investment for impact
Seventy per cent of companies surveyed by Corporate Citizenship expect to move towards a flagship programme approach to corporate social investment in the next 2 years, up from just 12 …
Natural and social capital accounting in the apparel sector
The natural and social capital accounting in the apparel sector white paper evaluates both the current state of natural and social capital accounting and valuation in the apparel industry, and …
Stranded Assets: Fossil fuels: Carbon Stores in Environment Agency Pension Fund
The EAPF commissioned Trucost to assess and analyse sixteen of their active and passive equity investment portfolios, with regard to their exposure to the embedded carbon emissions within fossil fuel …
TEEB for Business Brazil

Carbon & Climate

TEEB for Business Brazil

This study report under the coordination of Conservation International (CI-Brazil), recommends that companies should understand and incorporate into their decision making process, the economic value of biodiversity and ecosystems services …
Portfolio footprinting to manage carbon liabilities: Pax World case study
Climate change creates a variety of risks for investors. The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) highlighted climate and carbon risks in its 2013 report 'Portfolio Carbon: Measuring, …
Valuing plastic: The business case for measuring, managing and disclosing plastic use
The 'valuing Plastic' report looks at the business case for measuring, managing and disclosing plastic use in the consumer goods sector. The objective of this report is to help companies …
Natural capital risk exposure of the financial sector in Brazil: Full report
Brazil's financial sector is dependent on natural capital to support economic growth and ensure future returns for investors. Nature's assets are abundant in Brazil, from its farmland, forests and energy …
 Green bonds briefing: Realizing the potential of the green bond market
Green bonds offer the potential to raise billions in capital to fund renewable energy projects and a host of other sustainable technologies to enable the transition to a sustainable economy. …
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