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Climate change
Extreme weather takes climate change models ‘off the scale’
Deadly weather across the world during July has left climate scientists ‘shocked’ and concerned that such events are arriving sooner than models predicted.
Parts of the Amazon Rainforest Are Emitting Carbon Dioxide
The giant forest was once a carbon sink that absorbed the emissions driving the climate crisis – but now the very same forest is accelerating climate change.
(paywall without an NYT subscription; similar Guardian story here)
Biodiversity
Engaging the finance sector on biodiversity
When it comes to the ‘E’ in ‘ESG’ (Environmental, Social and Governance), impact on biodiversity is often overlooked compared to climate action. A ShareAction report on asset managers’ approach to biodiversity has highlighted the main reasons why biodiversity is excluded and what can be done to move the finance sector towards a net positive impact on the natural world.
Agriculture
Why social movements and scientists are boycotting the UN Food Systems Summit
In September, the UN will host a Global Food Systems Summit in New York, pitched as a crucial debate. But various social movements and scientists are staying out of the UN summit because it represents big agribusiness interests.
Human rights
Workers must be the foundation of any human rights due diligence approach
KnowTheChain, a resource for companies and investors to understand and address forced labour risks within their global supply chains, discusses upcoming mandatory human rights due diligence legislation in the EU, which emphasises the importance of worker-driven approaches to due diligence, and reiterates that social auditing alone is not a proxy for due diligence.
EU migration
The end of EU migration will reshape the UK economy
Using the food sector as an example, the FT reports on how the free movement era transformed out economy, from security and location of work to the prices in shops – and how, if we don’t allow EU workers back, learning to live without them will reshape our economy yet again.
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