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Fool’s Paradise: How Biodiversity Offsets Don’t Stop Biodiversity Loss

Although increasingly recognizing their role in driving biodiversity loss, banks have yet to develop consistent, comprehensive policies and practices in ensuring that their direct and indirect financing does not cause or accelerate biodiversity loss. In an attempt to address biodiversity impacts, many banking institutions have embraced “no-net loss” or “net gain” commitments, which inherently rely on offset schemes. While biodiversity offsets may seem like a seductively simple solution to a complex problem, “Fool’s Paradise:…

How a Rockstar Lentil Burger Inspired More Plant-Forward School Food

This case study highlights San Luis Coastal Unified School District’s Thai Basil Lentil Burger, which has become one of the school’s most popular plant-forward entrees

12 Guilty Fogeys: Big Oil’s $86 billion offshore tax bonanza

A handful of Big Oil companies drilling overseas have benefited massively from carve-outs they won in the GOP’s 2017 tax bill

Four Days of Texas-Sized Disinformation

New analysis by FOE uses FB data to show that their approach misses the point & will still likely miss the vast majority of disinformation.  

Pesticides inhibiteurs de gènes: risques et inquiétudes

Les pesticides ont déjà été liés à toute une série de conséquences considérables et inattendues: ils nuisent à notre santé, déciment la biodiversité, provoquent des dommages au niveau des sols et des ressources en eau dont nous avons besoin pour produire l’alimentation d’aujourd’hui et de demain

World Heritage Forever? How Banks Can Protect the World’s Most Iconic Cultural and Natural Sites

The report calls on financial institutions to adopt the Banks and Biodiversity No Go policy as a means towards safeguarding the most special and unique ecosystems on Earth.

2021 Cruise Ship Report Card

For decades, the cruise industry’s business practices have put the environment, climate, and public health of coastal communities, passengers, crew, and coastal and marine ecosystems at risk.

Port of Charleston Shore Power Analysis

Shore power provides an alternative to running auxiliary engines that has the potential to reduce air pollutant emissions in a cost-effective manner.

Brief to Shareholders of Bunge April 2021

Shareholders should vote in favor of Proposal 5 calling on Bunge to issue a report assessing if and how it could increase the scale, pace, and rigor of its efforts to eliminate native vegetation conversion in its soy supply chain.

USDA Foods: How a $1.3 billion program can be transformed to create a more just and healthy food system

The USDA Foods program, while providing well-intentioned financial support for school districts, contributes to menus that rely heavily on carbon-intensive, ultra-processed foods like hamburgers, deli meat sandwiches, and chicken nuggets sourced from the largest industrial meat and dairy corporations.