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ICMM publishes new guidance to help mining and metals companies protect and restore biodiversity towards a nature positive future

Stuart Mitchell

ICMM has published new guidance that aims to help mining and metals companies achieve and maintain no net loss of biodiversity at their operations, and ultimately strive for net gain of biodiversity, as they work towards a nature-positive future.   According to the 2024 Living Planet Report, wildlife populations have seen a 73% average decline from 1970 through 2020, largely driven by climate change, deforestation, habitat loss, hunting, overfishing and other environmental impacts of food production. While the industry is dependent on the essential services provided by healthy ecosystems—such as…

Amazon launches a carbon credit service, enabling access to high-quality credits for qualified companies

Stuart Mitchell

Available through the Sustainability Exchange, this service will offer science-based carbon credits to suppliers, business customers, and Climate Pledge signatories. Below is the post from their website that explains more, please visit their website here for more information.As we continue on our path to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040, we remain committed to reducing and eliminating emissions across our global business by implementing real, science-based operational changes—transitioning to carbon-free energy, increasing efficiency in our data centers, electrifying our delivery fleet, and decarbonizing our complex real estate portfolio, just to…

Standard Chartered issues first Social Bond

Stuart Mitchell

Standard Chartered, a leading international cross-border bank connecting the world’s most dynamic markets, has today issued its first-ever Social Bond, which will support the sustainable development of low-income countries across the bank’s emerging market footprint. The EUR1 billion 8-year Non-Call 7 year offering will primarily facilitate lending to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), ensuring access to finance, helping create jobs and empowering and nurturing women-owned SMEs. Proceeds will also finance access to essential services including healthcare and education, and will facilitate investment into affordable basic infrastructure and food security,…

Housing provider launches £25,000 healthy eating initiative

Stuart Mitchell

A NEW initiative aims to promote healthy eating, combat isolation and strengthen community ties in underserved areas. Bield Housing & Care has announced a new project designed to support tenants in underserved communities by offering access to nutritious food, practical guidance on healthy living and an opportunity to connect with neighbours. Funded by a generous £25,000 grant from The National Lottery Community Fund, the community pantry project will focus on developments that do not currently offer meal services, ensuring Bield extends its impact across its network of tenants. The initiative…

New Carbon Data Standards Initiative to Aid and Scale Carbon Markets

Stuart Mitchell

A group of 30 leading businesses, nonprofits and public sector organizations have joined forces to help facilitate and scale carbon markets by launching an open, multi-stakeholder initiative to develop a protocol that harmonizes the definitions and rules that standardize data describing carbon crediting projects and carbon credits across markets, geographies and activity types.      The group’s Carbon Data Open Protocol (CDOP) aims to create the processes and definitions for greater standardization, transparency and fungibility to improve integrity and dramatically scale carbon markets, according to the committee-led initiative’s four co-chairs, The Global…