Emma Thomson
Emma leads Global Canopy’s Forest 500 and Tracking work, bringing greater accountability to the companies and financial institutions with the greatest influence on tropical deforestation. She also led the development of the Finance Sector Roadmap – endorsed by the UK government – which offers step by step guidance for the finance sector to help them work towards deforestation-free portfolios.
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AGM season 2024: IROs need to recognize that deforestation is hitting their bottom line
Amid the debate on what companies should or shouldn’t be doing on ESG, some things remain crystal clear: understanding and addressing business externalities is essential, and issues that affect the bottom line cannot be ignored. Deforestation is one of these. Investors and IR professionals are concerned about climate change, and increasingly about nature loss. More than 1,000 companies and 700 financial institutions have set net-zero targets, and many have signed up to become ‘nature positive’ and tackle their biodiversity impacts and dependencies. Deforestation is the biggest issue sitting at the heart of all this. Net-zero targets and nature-positive ambitions cannot…
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