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This month we are happy to announce a new partnership with Green Finance Institute focused on accelerating the market for financing a net-zero carbon built environment. We also share a conversation full of insights with Nicole Rycroft, Executive Director of Canopy and recipient of the 2021 Climate Breakthrough Award. As usual, we selected news from our partners, inspiring blogs and online events.
Happy reading!
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Green Finance Institute & Laudes Foundation partner to decarbonise the built environment
The Green Finance Institute and Laudes Foundation share a common sense of urgency to ensure “Investment flows into constructing and renovating homes to net-zero carbon standards remain far below the levels required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. It’s also critical this enables the many, not just the few, to benefit from a better built environment”, said James Drinkwater, Head of Built Environment at Laudes Foundation.
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FORGE awards $770,000 to seven groups committed to global South communities impacted by Covid-19
Funders Organized for Rights in the Global Economy (FORGE), a collaborative of philanthropic donors including Laudes, just announced it’s second slate of investments with a focus on climate, gender, and debt justice, to catalyse reforms grounded in preserving the rights and power of workers, while strengthening accountability and addressing underlying inequities in the financial system.
In conversation with...Nicole Rycroft
Founder and Executive Director of Canopy, recipient of the 2021 Climate Breakthrough Award and long-time partner of Laudes Foundation, Nicole Rycroft shares her thoughts on what the fashion industry can do to protect ancient and endangered forests. |
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“We do need a fresh lens through which we can rebuild our economies. And this lens needs bifocals! A lens for the deeply rooted inequalities of our societies, and a lens for the existential climate crisis in which we find ourselves. The two are deeply interlinked – and we cannot address one without the other.” – Leslie Johnston, CEO at Laudes Foundation.
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By Leslie Johnston
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“A wooden revolution is brewing up in the global construction scenario, however one might wonder, is it really the answer to the problem? Yes, it is! Timber is an environmentally friendly renewable building material that has low embodied energy and stores carbon (…) The momentum towards timber construction has begun, but the real challenge is the speed and scale of this transition.” - Surabhi Khandelwal, Transition Researcher at our partner BLOC.
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By Surabhi Khandelwal
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Our partner Chemsec has released a new report on the importance of a circular economy that is free from hazardous substances. The report shares key findings on how we can phase out harmful chemicals and the financial gains of a non-toxic circular economy.
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For the first time, two amendments will be introduced to make consumption targets legally binding. Such targets would help curb Europe’s consumption and material footprints, bringing consumption and production patterns within planetary boundaries by 2050.
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Our partners and friends at Jansahas, Rights Education and Development Center (READ) and Denim Expert Ltd. are part of the 28 candidates shortlisted for Thomson Reuters Foundation’s annual Stop Slavery Awards, which received a record number of applications in this edition.
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ETI Bangladesh, together with invited guest speakers from the Government of Bangladesh, local mobile operators and other communication service providers, and RMG suppliers, will be holding a webinar to discuss on how we can best reach RMG workers while ensuring equal access to information for women workers.
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