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Biodiversity is gaining in importance for investors hoping to learn lessons from climate change.

Offsets are a convenience that allows buyers to continue polluting while essentially paying someone else to adopt climate-friendly behaviors.

SINGAPORE — Putting a value on nature could be the key to getting the trillions of dollars in investments nature-based solutions need to successfully tackle the climate crisis, experts said at a sustainability conference in Singapore in September. According to a May report by the United Nations Environment Programme, the world needs about $8.1 trillion […]

Two forest projects in Borneo show the value of a United Nations-backed scheme that protects forests and wildlife, reduces carbon emissions and benefits local communities. This is the second of a two-parter on the carbon credit market.

John Morton, previously a climate change financial adviser, will head the new “climate hub.” By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Story at a glance: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appointed John Morton, who served in a senior climate post in the Obama administration and has 25 years of experience in green energy consulting and financing. “Net-zero” carbon emissions has to be achieve by 2050 in the U.S. Some climate activists wanted someone who would b...

US Treasury names green financier as climate ‘czar’ Reuters, WASHINGTON The US Department of the Treasury on Monday named climate change financial adviser John Morton to head the department’s new “climate hub,” disappointing activists who had sought a strong regulator to push financial institutions toward green investments. John Morton, a partner with climate change advisory and investment firm Pollination Group, would work to foster green finance, and use tax policy and financial ris...

By Syndicated Content Apr 19, 2021 12:09 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Monday named climate change financial adviser John Morton to head the departments new "climate hub, to foster green finance and use tax policy and financial risk assessments to help reduce carbon emissions. Morton, a partner with Pollination Group, a specialist climate change advisory and investment firm, had served in the Obama administration White House as senior director for energy and climate...

U.S. Treasury names green financial adviser to new climate czar post 04/19/2021 17:09 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury on Monday named climate change financial adviser John Morton to head the departments new "climate hub, to foster green finance and use tax policy and financial risk assessments to help reduce carbon emissions. Morton, a partner with Pollination Group, a specialist climate change advisory and investment firm, had served in the Obama administration White House as seni...

News While Joe Biden looks set to double America’s emissions reduction target at a meeting of world leaders next week, Australia’s ‘gas-fired recovery’ sees it increasingly isolated. By Mike Seccombe. US president Joe Biden. Credit: Joshua Roberts / Getty Images Just months after the Coalition dumped Malcolm Turnbull, the new prime minister, Scott Morrison, went on Sydney radio to pour scorn on international efforts to prevent catastrophic global warming. It was October 8, 2018, and...

Mar 04 2021, 1:09 PM March 04 2021, 2:35 AM March 04 2021, 1:09 PM (Bloomberg) -- Few places in the world have greater need for a new type of sustainable debt to fund water projects and protect the oceans than Asia, with its more than 100,000 kilometers of coastline. (Bloomberg) -- Few places in the world have greater need for a new type of sustainable debt to fund water projects and protect the oceans than Asia, with its more than 100,000 kilometers of coastline. While so-called “blue bon...