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COP26 – CARBON PRICING. STICKING PLASTER OR KEY TO PROGRESS?

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Introduction In July 2021, Z/Yen held a webclave for international financial centres to discuss approaches to sustainable finance and delivering the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The group discussed: The scope for local action, recognising the role that financial centres have in bringing together key players, supporting market access, developing standards and regulatory approaches, enabling […]

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SUSTAINABILITY. EASIER SAID THAN UNDERSTOOD? NEW REPORTING REGULATIONS

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Transparency has become a watchword separating good from bad behaviour on sustainability issues. An example of this is to explain something in clear unambiguous terms so that the intended audience is not misled about a company’s activity. Consider the word ‘Sustainable’. What does it mean when a company claims to be following a sustainable strategy?

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SUSTAINABILITY AND DEFORESTATION IN THE COCOA INDUSTRY

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Preface This article set out to capture the essence of the major problems around deforestation in the industry. In hindsight, that may have been naively ambitious. Much of it represents my own learning journey, no doubt with some way further to go. There is a lot of data to trawl through, notwithstanding data from private

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