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It's All in Scope
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- GreenBiz
This March 31 briefing explains how the final draft from the Task Force for Nature-Related Financial Disclosure endorses a "scope" approach to future reporting.
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- 2023-03-31
You Bet, Sustainable Finance Will Grow
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- Euromoney
This March 27 dispatch assesses how UBS' absorption of Credit Suisse will invite other investment banks to build market share in ocean and other conservation deals.
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- 2023-03-31
Higher Standards for Carbon Markets?
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- Mongabay
This March 30 report looks at new proposed standards from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, arriving in a fraught moment.
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- 2023-03-31
Less Money, More Hikers, More...
- Article Source
- WXPR radio
A March 24 dispatch from a radio station in Wisconsin's North Woods traces opposite trajectories in the volume of people exploring the outdoors and the volume of state funding for public lands.
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- 2023-03-24
One in Four Needs a Lot More
- Article Source
- Mongabay
This March 23 story relays a study showing that new tropical forest planting reversed 26% of the carbon harm from logging and deforestation.
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- 2023-03-24
Is a Standard the Right Flavor?
- Article Source
- GreenBiz
This March 23 piece distills the case for and against a federal regenerative-agriculture standard.
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- 2023-03-24
Land-Acknowledgment Talk is Cheap
- Article Source
- NPR
This March 15 story details how some American Indian organizers are working to parley verbal "land acknowledgments" into financial relationships.
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- 2023-03-17
Uncommons Urgency on Water
- Article Source
- The Guardian
This March 17 story delves into a report projecting a 40% shortfall in freshwater supply before 2030.
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- 2023-03-17
- Topics
- Fresh Water
They're Gonna Want What They're Gonna Need
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- S & P Global
This March 16 interview summary amplifies a spot carbon market maker's conviction that pent-up appetite for carbon credits will soon lift the assets' prices.
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- 2023-03-17
- Topics
- ClimateImpact Investing
Lord, Make Me Net Zero...
- News Item Type
- Commentary
- Article Source
- The Conversation
Three British scholars summarize their paper, which sifts through over 20 nations' decarbonization plans and finds a burn line of reliance on carbon offsetting and burial.
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- 2023-03-10
Blends That Never Dilute
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- Commentary
- Article Source
- Mongabay
This March 8 op/ed, courtesy Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's foundation, argues for public-private piles of capital to scale conservation as needed.
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- 2023-03-10
They're Not Fleecing You Here
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- Fast Company
This March 8 update tips us that Patagonia acquired a snack-food company that practices regenerative agriculture. Of course it did.
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- 2023-03-10
Keeping Perspective on the Pearl
- Article Source
- S & P Global
This March 2 recap of an interview with a Shell executive hints at how integrated oil companies are positing nature-based solutions for their own account.
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- 2023-03-03