Biodiversity
Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: report
EUROPE is a world leader in the fight against climate change but must do more to protect its environment and improve its resilience against global warming, the European Union’s environment agency warn...
‘We are the ocean’
In the run-up to the upcoming UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the French ambassador to Singapore highlights the critical need for high seas governance, financing a sustainable blue economy, and science a...
Issue 146: Urging the financial sector to address nature; Singapore investors lag on climate plans
This week in ESG: Singapore Sustainable Finance Association calls for action on nature financing; climate investor group polls investors on strategies, disclosures
AI alone won’t save the planet
When political leaders and executives convene in Davos next week, they must acknowledge that technology is not a cure-all for climate change. Look instead to ‘augmented intelligence’ that combines alg...
COP16 chair hails biodiversity attaining ‘equal footing’ with climate crisis
THE world’s biggest nature protection conference, under way in Cali, has placed biodiversity loss “on an equal footing” with the climate emergency, the meeting’s Colombian president told AFP in an int...
UN biodiversity summit opens with call for ‘significant’ funding
THE world’s biggest nature protection conference opens in Colombia on Monday with the United Nations chief calling for countries to “convert words into action” and fatten a fund seeking to address bio...
Once our primary forests are gone, they’re gone forever
AT THE 2021 United Nations Climate Conference in Glasgow, 145 nations made a pledge to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by 2030. Almost three years later, the call for transformativ...
Why biodiversity bonds could have a record year
This type of debt is gaining traction as countries and firms are pushed to do more to protect nature and investors see potential in the asset class
JPMorgan, Lloyds among banks adding new senior ESG roles on biodiversity
FROM Wall Street to the City of London, senior roles are being created around one of ESG’s youngest but fastest-growing areas: biodiversity.
Achieving a nature-positive future in Asia
Debates around combatting the dual environmental crises have, until recently, left biodiversity issues in the shadow of climate challenges. Biodiversity has taken time to resonate with the public and ...
