Ethical Corporation
June 8, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has made clear what many scientists and economists already know – that destroying natural ecosystems and the animal habitats they shelter put our health and prosperity at grave risk.??
But what has been missing among the immediate responses to the coronavirus pandemic are action plans at the regional and national levels laying out how, exactly, safeguarding nature can protect
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Ethical Corporation
May 27, 2020
The Turritopsis dohrnii is known as the immortal jellyfish because it is capable of a remarkable biological trick. When it gets old or sick or suffers a shock, this tiny tentacled sea creature is able to transform the state of its cells and revert to its nascent polyp stage, effectively beginning life again.Image: Channels: EnvironmentTags: DSMCanarycircular economyAupingEuropean
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GreenBiz Group
April 28, 2020
To repair our economy and ensure its resilience, we can — and we must — solve for public and planetary health at the same time.
GreenBiz Group
April 28, 2020
Coronavirus has caused unemployment to skyrocket. Tree restoration could be a cost-effective way to put Americans back to work.
Ethical Corporation
April 22, 2020
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Thomson Reuters, which owns Reuter Events, announced that it will work to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner. The new targets align to worldwide efforts to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the most ambitious aim of the Science Based Targets initiative.Image: Channels: Communications &
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GreenBiz Group
April 20, 2020
Addressing biodiversity, like so many other things, seems to have been shunted aside by the coronavirus outbreak. It would make much more sense to keep it front and center.
Ethical Corporation
March 4, 2020
‘In traditional times there were no borders like now — no states and territories, no native title borders and different groups drawing lines. This project removes those borders so that we can work together to keep country and people healthy.”Image: Channels: EnvironmentTags: indigenous-led conservation10 Deserts ProjectSDGsbiodiversityTNCFirst
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Ethical Corporation
March 3, 2020
This decade has been billed as the decade of climate action – but it’s not enough to cut carbon emissions, we also have to reverse the precipitous loss of our planet’s biodiversity.Image: Channels: EnvironmentTags: WBCSDbiodiversitysixth great extinctionParis AgreementUnileverDanoneUNWCMCGlobal Diversity ScoreOP2Bsustainable soy
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Ethical Corporation
February 11, 2020
Big brands have found themselves in the eye of a consumer storm over their use of palm oil ever since UK retailer Iceland launched its boycott at the end of 2018, borrowing an emotive ad from a Greenpeace campaign featuring a homeless orangutan, which went viral.Image: Channels: Supply ChainsTags: IcelandGreenpeaceUnileverRainforest Action NetworkMighty
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Sustainability Matters
January 30, 2020
A world-leading ecologist has issued a dire warning of the terrible consequences of post-fire logging, iterating that the practice could have catastrophic environmental consequences in the wake of unprecedented bushfires.
David Lindenmayer, Professor of Ecology and Conservation Biology at the Australian National University, has led global research on the effects of post-fire logging for more than 16
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