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Since the turn of the century there has been a consistent average annual loss of 3 to 4 million hectares or 74 to 99 million acres of tropical forest globally

Despite corporate commitments, deforestation rates remain high, and community land conflicts continue.

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Why is policy engagement essential for businesses to achieve their sustainability goals? How should ambitious businesses work most effectively with governments? How can public-private cooperation more rapidly unlock investment and scale markets? Here are some of my reflections from my first six months at WBCSD on why policy engagement is becoming essential for ambitious businesses in sustainability and why more and better public-private engagement is needed in the inevitable but uncertain...

The next Montreal Climate Summit will offer tangible tools and best practices to speed up action implementation across the metropolitan area.

New scorecard aims to rate financial firms progress in delivering on net zero goals

** EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 GMT THURSDAY 8 FEBRUARY ** LONDON, 8 February – A growing number of financial institutions worldwide are having a positive im...

Businesses continue to grapple with the current economic downturn, the agreements both made and missed at COP28 are only just starting to take shape and there are brand new frameworks on the horizon for sustainability professionals to get to grips with. What does 202r hold for sustainability professionals? Here, edie…

Leading representatives from within the community of international regulators and experts have today announced their participation in a new task force with the aim of aligning global policy with net zero. Launched today at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and building on the work of United Nations Secretary-General’s High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities, the Task Force on Net Zero Policy will aim to help realize its r...

DUBAI (December 2, 2023) — Today at COP28, an Expert Group convened by the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) and WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities (WRI) launched the Integrity Matters for Cities, States, and Regions report outlining fit-for-purpose recommendations for local, state and regional governments to ensure the credibility, accountability and transparency of their climate and sustainability commitments.