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New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion

GreenBiz

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity. It is my hope that this new benchmark will help transform biodiversity commitments into actions.

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The Brief: Investing in gap-closing startups, flexible growth capital in Uganda, affordable housing in West Africa, reversing biodiversity loss, deinfluencers

Impact Alpha

The post The Brief: Investing in gap-closing startups, flexible growth capital in Uganda, affordable housing in West Africa, reversing biodiversity loss, deinfluencers appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Featured: Returns on Inclusion Freada and Mitch Kapor write the book on startup investing to close gaps of equity.

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Wind farm pioneers system to protect birds in South Africa

Renewable Energy World

In South Africa, BioTherm Energy’s Excelsior Wind farm is collaborating with conservation organizations to minimize the wind industry’s impact on local bird populations (avifauna). The eight biodiversity monitors, who are predominately female, have been recruited from the surrounding communities.

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Protecting just 0.7% of world’s land could help save a third of most unique and endangered species

Envirotec Magazine

The study, led by researchers at Imperial College London and published in early September in Nature Communications , finds that large gains in conservation are possible by focusing on areas home to exceptional biodiversity and species with high levels of evolutionary distinctiveness and global endangerment.

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National Geographic raises eyebrows with biodiversity tour of Asia and Africa by private jet

Eco-Business

The much-loved conservation brand has befuddled environmentalists with a climate-costly promotion that takes the super-rich to biodiversity hotspots in Asia and Africa via private jet. The expedition starts with a trip to Singapore Zoo.

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Undoing the Damage – it’s Time for Restoration

Ideas 4 Sustainability

Biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change. To that end, Joern Fischer is the coordinator of a DFG funded research unit entitled “A Social-Ecological Systems Approach to Inform Ecosystem Restoration in Rural Africa”. Not a rosy outlook for 2024… Nevertheless, researchers are tirelessly searching for solutions.

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The Brief: Solar financing for frontline health clinics, biodiversity urgency, India’s digital health boom, greening freight, racial justice algorithms (video)

Impact Alpha

24: Solar financing for frontline health clinics in Africa and Asia. The post The Brief: Solar financing for frontline health clinics, biodiversity urgency, India’s digital health boom, greening freight, racial justice algorithms (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact! The World Bank’s Raihan.

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