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Martin Höfeler: Fashions Come and Go, but Style — and Environment — are Forever
It’s all about sustainability in 2022, and there’s likely to be no lessening of focus in coming decades. Sustainability matters, in a way that other modern notions and buzzwords don’t. People matter; the planet matters. In the fashion industry, brands
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Tamsin Lejeune: Saving the World in Style
Tamsin Lejeune, founder and CEO of the Ethical Fashion Forum and Common Objective, is uniting a global community behind a mission to make fashion more sustainable. Lejeune worked as an architect before striking out in the fashion industry. She grew
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Pollen Street Capital – All Players are Part of the Solution: Proceed with Purpose to Maximise ESG Impact
Pollen Street Capital is a purpose-led asset manager whose overarching purpose is to deliver long-term sustainable performance through frictionless financial services. That means commitment to actions that generate positive impact for investors, people, portfolio companies and wider society. As stewards
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Fitch Ratings: Enduring Focus on ESG and Sustainability Projects at Leading Credit Ratings Provider
For over a century, Fitch Ratings has been building and creating value for global capital markets around the world. The firm’s rigorous analysis and expertise have led to the development of market-leading tools — methodologies, indices, research and analytical products
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Charlotte McCurdy Getting Creative about Climate Change: Time to Plant the Seed
Charlotte McCurdy, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate and professor, wants creatives to join the fight against climate change. McCurdy believes the world needs more STEM innovators to solve its most pressing challenges — and more dreamers to ask
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AVEVA: Software is the Key to Sustainable Industries
Digital thinking and data-led operations will accelerate the drive to net-zero and a decade of action. By Peter Herweck, CEO of AVEVA The world is on the cusp of transformation to sustainability. Global leaders are faced with a golden —
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World Bank: Investment Push Needed for Green, Resilient and Inclusive Development
As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 crisis, we face a world with a serious ‘reversal’ problem – a reversal in development progress made over the last 20 years, of a magnitude not seen in a generation. It
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OECD: Plugging the SDG Financing Gap
Ensuring Blended Finance can mobilise private finance, particularly in the Least Developed Countries and towards Social Sectors, will require a systemic and transformational approach. Even before the arrival of COVID-19, the SDG financing gap was significant. The private sector is
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IFC: After Glasgow, Four Steps to Keep Us On Track
The UN Climate Conference in Glasgow saw a flurry of commitments and proposals to limit temperature rises to 1.5°C. While there was concrete headway on several fronts, COP26 also underscored the enormity of the task still ahead. Four clear signposts
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Decarbonisation and “Greenflation”
Accelerating the transition toward low or net-zero carbon emissions is necessary to keep global warming at theoretically safe levels. That will likely bring price shocks associated with rising metal prices, energy costs, and carbon taxes – what has been called
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