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Your guide to Nature-based Solutions and biodiversity

Biodiversity and Nature-based Solutions – a guide for financial professionals to understand the evolving regulatory landscape, biodiver...

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Your guide to Nature-based Solutions and biodiversity

Beyond Carbon Reporting: Nature-related policies

COP15 is taking place in Montreal, Canada, from 5 December to 17 December, more than two years after the summit was meant to have taken...

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Beyond Carbon Reporting: Nature-related policies

Ep.13: The SDGs as a guiding light for business with purpose with Robbie Epsom, CBRE Investment Management

In lucky number 13, we speak with Robbie Epsom, EMEA Head of ESG for CBRE Investment Management, about transparency, change and const...

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Ep.13: The SDGs as a guiding light for business with purpose with Robbie Epsom, CBRE Investment Management

Your step-by-step guide to net zero

The simple and practical guide to carbon reporting and reduction covering carbon footprinting, target setting, offsets, and strategy de...

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Your step-by-step guide to net zero

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Decarbonisation Day - COP27

Decarbonisation Day - COP27

Attendees to COP27 will today be discussing decarbonisation as part of the themed daily schedule. Decarbonisation Day aims to promote discussion on how heavily polluting industries such as oil and gas extraction, and construction, can reduce their emissions using innovative techniques.

Defining the role of the modern CSO

Defining the role of the modern CSO

Last year, a report jointly published by Deloitte and the Institute of International Finance (IIF) dubbed the CSO (chief sustainability officer) “the sense maker in chief”, predicting that the role would grow significantly in prominence over the next two years.

What are the SFDR Regulations and do they affect you?

What are the SFDR Regulations and do they affect you?

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Beyond Carbon Reporting: Nature-related policies

Beyond Carbon Reporting: Nature-related policies

COP15 is taking place in Montreal, Canada, from 5 December to 17 December, more than two years after the summit was meant to have taken place. Delegates from across the globe are meeting to produce a Paris Agreement-style deal for nature, resulting in an end to the degradation of biodiversity and the acceleration and mainstreaming of work to restore ecosystems and habitats.

Energy Aware

Despite the government's energy price guarantee, tomorrow households across the UK will feel the impact of the leap in energy bills with costs almost twice what people were paying last winter.

Zero Emissions Day (September 21st)

Zero Emissions Day (September 21st)

Zero Emissions Day has been designed to give the world a break from fossil fuels and to raise awareness about the harm caused by carbon emissions. The goal is to engage people towards more climate-friendly choices in their personal life.

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Desertification Island Discs Podcast

In a parallel universe in the year 2050, Britain is a deserted island. We were too ignorant to take the steps required to tackle climate change. The government has fallen. The cities are wastelands. You must leave everything behind...apart from 7 records, a box set, and a gadget.
Rio CEO Dan Botterill speaks with guests about the items they’d take with them in this hypothetical world, in addition to the wider sustainability agenda in the real one.

Ep.13: The SDGs as a guiding light for business with purpose with Robbie Epsom, CBRE Investment Management

Ep.13: The SDGs as a guiding light for business with purpose with Robbie Epsom, CBRE Investment Management

In lucky number 13, we speak with Robbie Epsom, EMEA Head of ESG for CBRE Investment Management, about transparency, change and constant improvement in the industry, the effects of ESG on the property sector, and the need to think more broadly to achieve the SDGs.

Ep.12: Sustainability in Australia & Change Management with Mandhy Senewiratne, Fyrefly

Ep.12: Sustainability in Australia & Change Management with Mandhy Senewiratne, Fyrefly

In this episode, we chat with Mandhy Senewiratne, Director of Sustainability and Communications at Fyrefly Global Sustainability. Dan and Mandhy discuss the challenges within sustainability in Australia, her background in water and construction, why we all need to lead by example and more. Enjoy!

Ep.11: From Investment Banking to Driving Responsible Investment with Helen Wiggs, ShareAction

Ep.11: From Investment Banking to Driving Responsible Investment with Helen Wiggs, ShareAction

In this episode, we chat with Helen Wiggs, the Head of Corporate Climate at ShareAction, a non-profit focused on driving responsible investment. Dan and Helen discuss whether ESG is here to stay, the Investor Decarbonisation Initiative, her journey from investment banking to responsible investment and more. Enjoy!

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Important Updates from COP27's Finance Day

Important Updates from COP27's Finance Day

Finance Day was momentous at COP26 in Glasgow last year, with high-profile investor coalitions launched and bold commitments from the likes of the UK to transform finance sectors into green drivers of the net-zero transition.

UN Secretary-General has urged zero tolerance for net-zero ‘greenwashing’

UN Secretary-General has urged zero tolerance for net-zero ‘greenwashing’

‘Rank deception’ UN chief slams corporate greenwashing at Cop27

Six reasons to be optimistic about the climate summit.

Six reasons to be optimistic about the climate summit.

With immediate looming headlines around COP27 such as ‘World is on ‘highway to climate hell’, UN chief warns at Cop27 summit’, and growing disillusionment at the UNFCCC process itself, which teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg recently described as a “scam”, it can be hard to find stories about positive change and technological advances and breakthrough.

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