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Innovations in cricket protein and aviation fuel win The Liveability Challenge 2024
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‘Right time to revisit’ managed coal phase-out in Japan: GFANZ APAC
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Policy & Finance
Majority of Asian investors still lack deforestation policies: AIGCC
Despite growing interest in nature and biodiversity, most investors have yet to incorporate deforestation into their financing policies and very few have done a detailed deforestation assessment across their portfolios, a new survey finds.
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