This week: Jessie Cato from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre talks about the latest tracker following the forced labour risks in the supply chains of the minerals necessary to transition global energy supply to renewables. Lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel are among the elements required for solar panels, batteries and wind turbines, and have significant supply chain human rights challenges.
Plus: Chatham House and UNEP report says food supply is responsible for 86% extinction risks; WWF’s plan for dairy to get to net zero; PepsiCo joint venture with Beyond Meat; UK renewables supply beat fossil fuels in 2020; and GM to be zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, in the news digest.
Host: Ian Welsh
ConferenceWatch: sustainable landscapes and commodities
Weekly podcast: Has business finally got it on climate change?
Tackling palm oil’s challenges in west Africa
Why economic empowerment is the route to farmer community resilience
Weekly podcast: Stop deforestation to halt pandemics
COPwatch9: did you really expect more?
The emerging role of business in building systemic resilience
COPwatch8: all eyes on Glasgow as COP deadline looms
COPwatch7: draft agreement made in Scotland, but not from girders
COPwatch6: Obama’s the star, but is it too late?
COPwatch5: how to empower indigenous people to save the forests
COPwatch4: it’s not easy going green
The climate health issues where business can make a difference
How to ensure climate change is the focus of business standards
COPwatch3: show me the money!
COPwatch2: $19bn deal to fight deforestation, and real movement on methane
COPwatch: let’s keep 1.5 alive!
Weekly podcast: Successful forests action project in Kenya, and impact of new EU label for apparel sector
The rise and rise of the voluntary carbon markets
Regenerative agriculture’s $70bn potential for Africa
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