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France and Decree 29: putting biodiversity on the regulator’s radar and impact on management companies

Positivéco — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 06:00:13 +0000

Article 29 of the Climate and Energy Law applies to the financial sector (insurance, banking, asset management companies) for collective management, discretionary management and investment advice. To comply with these new reporting requirements, the regulation recommends that portfolio management companies analyse the investment sectors of their funds. [...]

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Biodiversity and climate: a crucial interdependence

Positivéco — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:05:04 +0000

In a 2018 study, Tim Newbold argues that climate change could become the leading cause of biodiversity loss by 2070, ahead of land-use change. Biodiversity degradation is thus both an additional driver of climate change and a threat to the ability of biodiversity to mitigate climate change. [...]

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Can COP15 on biodiversity result in a global framework as ambitious as the Paris Agreement for the climate?

Positivéco — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 13:02:56 +0000

This Conference of the Parties is the governing body of the Convention on Biological Diversity, the first international treaty that takes into account all aspects of biological diversity. COP 15 is particularly important in view of the current and accelerating erosion of biodiversity. Only "far-reaching economic, social, [...]

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