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Natural Capital Protocol Toolkit Aims to Help Companies Better Assess Nature’s Role, Value
The introduction of the Natural Capital Protocol last year provided businesses with an important tool for businesses to measure their impacts and dependencies on nature. Now, building on the foundational work of the Protocol, a new Toolkit launched by WBCSD and the Natural Capital Coalition offers a free and interactive database of over 50 tools for businesses to use in exploring, experimenting with and carrying out natural capital assessments across their operations.
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Business Has Much to Do If It Wants to Be a Climate Leader
Businesses large and small have been hailed as the would-be saviors in the uphill battle against climate change in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord. It’s true that many corporations have been walking the talk on climate change for a while now, but the private sector still has a lot of work to do if it is to lead on the climate change file. In the absence of regulation, real leadership from businesses on climate will require new strategies and investments that push them to be truly sustainable.
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#BusinessCase: REI Proves Values-First Approach Leads to Longevity
News Deeply, in partnership with Sustainable Brands, has produced a series of profiles looking at how brands are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. The goal is to examine trends and gather insights from a new wave of corporate citizenship – in an era when the private sector is increasingly expected to play a positive role in improving our lives and societies. For the 10th article in the series, News Deeply spoke with Alex Thompson, REI’s VP, about what sustainability means to REI and how it shapes the company at all levels.
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Reporting 3.0 Launches New Business Models Blueprint, Seeks More ‘Positive Mavericks’
The Paris Agreement may be the biggest thing to happen to business models since the advent of the term in the dot-com bubble, but for companies with GHG emissions baked into their value cycles, this will require significant business model transformation – as well as requiring entrepreneurs to embed such considerations into their assumptions when generating models for new companies. This emerging reality prompted the Reporting 3.0 Platform to round out its series of four Blueprint Projects with the New Business Models Blueprint, which was launched at the 4th International Reporting 3.0 Conference in late May.
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