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Chemicals of Concern
Chemicals of concern are substances with potential toxic effects on human health or the environment due to their distribution, concentration, or mode of toxicity. They pose financial, legal, operational, and reputational risks for companies, particularly in industries like chemical manufacturing, textiles, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and consumer goods.
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Bankrolling extinction: The banking sector's role in the global biodiversity crisis
This report explores the contribution of the banking sector to the biodiversity crisis and the destruction of nature as of 2019. The report ranks the 50 largest banks globally based on their financing of unethical operations, finding a large impact on deforestation, ecosystem destruction and overfishing.
Political leadership on climate change: The role of health in Obama era U.S. climate policies
To overcome climate action inertia that many governments are experiencing, the paper proposes that health can be used as a core motivator for climate action. This idea is explored through the case study of the Obama administration’s climate mitigation policies.
