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  • The Biodiversity Challenge Revisited

    A Review of the Latest Research and Implications for Business

    27 Oct 2010 – Webinar

    Some businesses are gradually awakening to growing risks and new opportunities as the protection of species and genetic diversity prove more and more critical to global supply chains. Yet too many still assume that government alone has the answers.

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  • Ocean Assault

    An Interview with Caroline Chisholm of Earthwatch

    09 Sep 2010 – Conversation

    One way to raise awareness of the effects of climate change and pollution on the world’s oceans is to dive right in and find out for yourself.

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  • Issue Brief: Valuing Nature

    The Economics of Ecosystem Services

    13 May 2010 – Article

    Can placing a price on ecosystem services help prevent further degradation and depletion of the natural resources society depends on?

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  • Knaves Turned Honest (Food Ethics Council)

    Can 21st century finance sustain 21st century agriculture?

    01 Mar 2010 – Article

    Alexa Clay and Sophia Tickell look at whether 21st century finance can sustain 21st century agriculture.

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  • Two Degrees Is Too Much

    08 Oct 2009 – Article

    With the clock ticking as we approach COP 15 in Copenhagen, Gary Kendall explains why the 2°C threshold for dangerous climate change is so important.

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  • Citigroup Versus Bank of America: US Banks Compete to Go Green (Nikkei Ecology)

    Citigroup invests 50 billion dollars in environmental projects including natural energy

    07 Aug 2007 – Article

    As Citgroup and Bank of America compete with multi-billion-dollar environmental investment initiatives, we ask, how can the outside world check up on the sort of claims such companies are now making? How can we hold them accountable?

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  • Brundtland and Sustainability: History's Balance-Sheet (openDemocracy)

    11 Apr 2007 – Article

    A shaping idea of our time is twenty years old. John Elkington tracks the epic journey of "sustainable development", assesses its record, and looks forward.

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  • Issue Brief: Water

    Every drop counts

    20 Apr 2004 – Article

    Water has become a defining sustainable development issue uniting a range of NGOs and activists - and cutting across interests from the environment to human rights, women’s rights and anti-globalization.

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