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An opinion piece about the degree to which the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework invokes market-based as opposed to regulatory mechanisms.

変化が激しく、またその予見が難しい地球環境やそれにともなう社会·経済の変化の中で、企業はその存続のために対応を迫られています。こうした状況下で、環境（E）・社会（S）・企業統治・ガバナンス（G）、いわゆるESGを経営方針や投資判断に組み入れるアプローチは、有用な手法の1つとして活用されています。 本書の特徴は、「ESGにどのように取り組むか」のみならず、「なぜESGに取り組む必要があるのか」について、国際的な動向や科学的視点も含めて解説している点です。構成は次のとおりです。第1章でESGの基本的な点を「質問と答え」というかたちで整理しています。第２章では特にカーボンニュートラルに向けた取り組みの観点から、投資家と企業の関係を解説しています。第３章では、近年ESGが注目されている背景について...

The world's major investors, banks and other financial institutions are taking note of the upcoming 26 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to be held in November 2021, and they are committing to take actions in line with the Paris Agreement on Net Zero. At the...

世界の主要な投資家や銀行などの金融機関は、 2021 年 11 月に開催される国連気候変動枠組条約（ UNFCCC ）第 26 回締約国会議（ COP26 ）に注目しつつ、「パリ協定」や「ネット・ゼロ」に沿った行動をとることを約束している。これと並行して、投資家や金融機関の間では、生物多様性に関連する投資ポートフォリオのリスクを懸念する声が高まっている 。これは、気候変動と生物多様性の間に重要な関連性、すなわち、相乗効果やトレードオフがあることや、生物多様性の破壊を含む生態系への人間の影響が COVID-19 のような感染症の拡大に関係している可能性が認識されつつあるためと考えられる。本イシューブリーフでは...

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have recently framed sustainable development priorities in both developed and developing countries. External funding in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) and official development assistance (ODA) is necessary for achieving practically all of the SDGs and their underlying targets. However, it is not...

A blog outlining how governments, especially in the G20, help the private sector to manage biological resources. Recommendations are based mostly on decisions by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Industry, in the context of this chapter, is mostly confined to the strict definition of the word: -“economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories”. Industry has a major impact on nature and its biodi- versity in Asia and the Pacific, as it does elsewhere in the world. Industry impacts...

Developing countries must submit forest reference emission levels (FRELs) to the UNFCCC to receive incentives for REDD+ activities (e.g. reducing emissions from deforestation/forest degradation, sustainable management of forests, forest carbon stock conservation/enhancement). These FRELs are generated based on historical CO2 emissions in the land...

Soil moisture (SM) plays a key role in many environmental processes and has a high spatial and temporal variability. Collecting sample SM data through field surveys (e.g. for validation of remote sensing-derived products) can be very expensive and time consuming if a study area is large, and producing accurate SM maps from the sample point data is...

Accurate mapping of glaciers is important for management of water resources, studying glacier mass-balance, and monitoring glacier health. However, many glaciers are partially covered by debris of varying thicknesses, and these debris-covered glacier areas are difficult to clearly distinguish from the adjacent valley rock using optical remote...