A new fully digital service enables any entrepreneur in Benin to create and register a business on their mobile phone and receive official incorporation within two hours. The ease and…
Findings in a report titled “Bankrolling Extinction” produced by portfolio.earth, a new initiative led by finance, economics and environmental experts to better understand the role of the finance industry in…
This year on ‘Black Friday’, when many companies discount products, the American shoe company Allbirds will increase product prices by 1 US dollar. The company will donate the extra dollar…
Following pressure and engagement from activists and environmental organizations, BlackRock voted in favor of a shareholder resolution to identify further opportunities to combat deforestation and degradation of intact forests in…
The United States Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of maintaining unlawful search and search advertising monopolies. Beginning a potentially multi-year process, the suit…
There is an increase in natural capital and ecosystem services being segmented into measurable and costed units by business and government. So what? The commodification of nature and biodiversity questions…
Over 560 companies with a combined revenue of over US$ 4 trillion are responding to a call from the new Business for Nature coalition to call for governments to adopt policies to reverse nature loss this decade.
The Chief Executive of Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest metals and mining corporation, has quit over the destruction of a sacred aboriginal site in Western Australia.
In July 2020, over 1100 companies stopped advertising on Facebook in response to the civil rights campaign Stop Hate for Profit, which called on the social media giant to take more action to stop hate speech on its platforms.
The International Chamber of Commerce, WWF, We Mean Business, United Nations Global Compact, the IUCN, and Business for Nature in June signed an open letter calling on CEOs to work…
In May 2020, China announced it would not be setting a 2020 goal for growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for the first time in decades. The reason for…
Uber is contesting a demand from New Jersey that it pay $649 million for years of unpaid employment taxes for its drivers, stating that they are independent contractors and not…
