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Green growth provides a means by which economic, environmental and social goals can be simultaneously achieved. It presents an opportunity to make existing industries more sustainable while at the same time encouraging new industries and a diversified economy.
Achieving a green and inclusive economy will be critical for tackling climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. SMEs will play an indispensable role in achieving this economic transformation due to the large share of global business they represent. Accounting for about 99% of enterprises in OECD countries, SMEs also employ a significant share of people, especially in low-income countries, where they contribute to, on average, 78% of employment compared to 65% in high-income countries.
Due to their large numbers, the very diverse nature of their businesses and their typically small number of employees, the barriers to greening the operations of SMEs are generally more complicated to overcome than those for larger companies.
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Green building standards & carbon finance in Cambodia's first LEED Gold certified garment factory
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"Take, make, dispose, repeat are four words that underpin every aspect of our daily lives. But at what cost to people, and our planet?"
Check out the latest episode of #TheGreenRenaissance: From Lines to Loops for a Circular Economy - out now! ⭕
With COVID-19 again highlighting the wastefulness of our economic model, how do we embrace circularity as part of a green recovery to deliver on multiple fronts?
This month Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Miranda Schnitger, UNIDO’s Nilgün Tas and Centro Tecnológico del Plástico’s Paula Iharur have the answers!
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On May 12, CEOs and representatives from more than 80 of the largest US businesses and investors called on the Biden administration and a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers to support a robust infrastructure package aiming to address the climate crisis and advance environmental justice. Who are the participating business and what specifically are they advocating for?
How can we make use of digital ecosystems to support nature conservation? IUCN explores the usage of digital ecosystem to avoid data fragmentation. It further emphasises how digital ecosystem can be used to effectively use the data to advance conservation and system-level transformation, and establish safeguards and business models.
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TNC Announces Innovative Collaboration for Solar Development in Central Appalachia
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Event recording and report now available -- Chilling Prospects: Tracking Sustainable Cooling for All 2021 (https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2021-05/Chilling-Prospects-21-SEf…)
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), in collaboration with Valuing Nature, launched the "Corporate natural capital accounting - from building blocks to a path for standardization" report, as a contribution to the EU Life funded Transparent project. It looks at a critical point on how business impacts and depends upon nature, and how to truly value natural capital in our decision-making.