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B-INTACT, Biodiversity Integrated Assessment and Computation Tool in the AFOLU sector

18 February, 2021 No Comments

Ecoacsa has participated in the external expert group advising the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in the development of B-INTACT (Biodiversity Integrated Assessment and Computational Tool). This tool seeks to provide a thorough biodiversity assessment of project-level activities in the AFOLU sector, taking on both a quantitative and a qualitative approach.

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Delaying action on biodiversity by just 10 years will be twice as expensive as acting immediately

17 February, 2021 No Comments

Delaying action on biodiversity by just 10 years will be twice as expensive as acting immediately and make it infeasible to stabilize biodiversity intactness at even today’s degraded levels, according to the report The Urgency of Biodiversity Action, by de Vivid Economics and the Natural History Museum.

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Why do we need a Task Force on Nature-related Disclosure?

16 February, 2021 No Comments

During One Earth One Future, the video of the new Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures was launched, with the participation of Elizabeth Maruma, Executive Secretary of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD); Bérangè Abba, Secretary of State of the Ministry for Ecological Transition of France, Mariuz Calvet, Director of Sustainability and Sustainable Investment of Banorte and co-chair of TNFD and Niranjan Bandokar, COF of YES Bank Group in India.

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Principles of Integrated Capital Assessments

8 February, 2021 No Comments

The latest publication by Capitals Coalition, Principles of Integrated Capital Assessments, aims to support organizations in providing guidance and consistency in how to apply a capitals approach through integrated thinking. Integrating natural, social, human and produced capital considerations provides organizations with a more holistic understanding of the system in which they operate, leading to better informed decisions with benefits for nature, people and the planet.

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Eurosystem agrees on common stance for climate change-related sustainable investments in non-monetary policy portfolios

5 February, 2021 No Comments

The Eurosystem central banks – the 19 national central banks of the euro area countries and the European Central Bank (ECB) – have defined a common stance for applying sustainable and responsible investment principles in the euro-denominated non-monetary policy portfolios that they each manage under their own responsibility.

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Four high level steps for companies to help them do their part to revert nature loss

4 February, 2021 No Comments

Business for Nature Coalition together with its partners, has defined four high-level and accessible steps for businesses to help in their journey to becoming nature-positive. These phases consist of assess their impacts and dependencies on nature to ensure they are committing and acting on the most material ones; commit to ambitious goals and set science-based targets; act now to avoid, reduce, regenerate & restore and transform; and advocate for ambitious government policies that will scale and speed up further positive business action.

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Rapid biodiversity loss poses financial risk for business

2 February, 2021 No Comments

The new UK government report The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review, highlights the growing financial risks corporations face as a result of a relentless depletion of Earth’s natural resources, an issue that so far has flown below the environmental, social and governance radar of most businesses.

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Webinar on “Multifuncional business premises for people and nature”

7 January, 2021 No Comments

Partners of the EU-program LIFE project BooGI-BOP (“Boosting Urban Green Infrastructure Through Biodiversity-oriented Design of Business Premises”) will host on February 18th 2021 from 14:30 to 16:00 pm (CET) an online seminar on “Multifuncional business premises for people and nature”. The session is addressed to facility managers.

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Sustainable use of the natural heritage

16 December, 2020 No Comments

Natural capital and existing market mechanisms for the sustainable management of biodiversity and ecosystems have been the protagonists chosen to close the collection on Sustainability and Natural Heritage Notebooks, by Santander Foundation. Ecoacsa participates in this work entitled: Sustainable use of the natural heritage, with a chapter on “Habitat banks and markets”.

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