Beekeeping is going corporate
According to Bloomberg, honeybees, under threat in rural and agricultural areas, are finding an unlikely refuge: the big city. For ...
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Ecosystem collapse could wipe trillions from global GDP
$2.7 trillion could be wiped from global gross domestic product if ecosystems continue to collapse, according to the World Bank, ...
Conservationist Jane Goodall wins Templeton Prize
AP reports that Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her expertise on chimpanzees and her globe-spanning advocacy of environmental causes, ...
Corporates asked to play a key role in “ending hunger by 2030”
Businesses and in particular food businesses which have thrived in the Covid pandemic are being asked to support a fund ...
“Fetishisation of GDP” must stop say finance and banking leaders
World leaders in finance, banking and food systems have welcomed the first economic framework for biodiversity, calling for an urgent ...
Seven commodities cause more than half of agribusiness deforestation
The World Resources Institute says cattle, oil palm, soy, cocoa, rubber, coffee and plantation wood fibre replaced 71.9 million hectares ...
How should economists think about biodiversity?
The Economist looks at a new report on the economics of biodiversity commissioned by the British government, and produced by ...
Biodiversity lost via $380 billion in food sector finance last year
Banks funding the biodiversity loss connected to food production have been identified in a new report by campaigners Portfolio.earth. The ...
#Epicfail over UN biodiversity targets
Global efforts have failed to reach any of the 20 biodiversity targets countries set a decade ago, the United Nations ...
More than half the world’s GDP depends on healthy biodiversity
World leaders will be pressed in a few weeks on measures reducing the risk of zoonotic pandemics, such as Covid-19, ...
Experts: Mandatory labelling can drive sustainability
Mandatory egg labelling is a good example of creating “clear, consistent demand” – driving improvements across a supply chain, according...
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