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Mastercard Introduces Sustainable Credit Card

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This way, everyone benefits, it’s better for the environment, it’s better for business and it meets evolving consumer needs.”. In a report last summer, Policy Genius noted there are a number of affinity credit cards that support the environment. Some credit cards provide a percentage of purchases to charity. percent of the purchase.

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Illegal Wildlife Trade: What Banks Must Do

FICO

In June this year, the FATF released their report on, ‘ Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade’. Billions of dollars are made at the cost of our natural environment and the economical longevity of the affected countries. The methods for trafficking wildlife or the money laundering that’s involved are hardly new.

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Coinstar CEO On The Ongoing Journey To Digitize Cash (And Turn It Into Crypto)

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The evolution — beyond sorting coins stored in proverbial piggy banks and coffee cans and toward bill pay and commerce, all in a self-service environment — is a natural one for the firm, which traces its evolution back 29 years with initial installations in groceries. billion in the U.S.

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Could This New Tech Help Solve The Bee-Collapse Pollination Crisis?

CB Insights

But America’s bees are dying out at an alarming rate: At least 8 bee species are categorized as endangered by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, and the US lost 44% of all honeybee colonies in 2016. As the video shows, researchers utilized a hummingbird-sized drone, which is too large to behave like a bee in a natural environment.

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Filipino activists appeal to British banks over region devastated by oil spill

TheGuardian

Environmentalists from the Philippines urge investors to avoid LNG projects which they say threaten the Verde Island Passage Campaigners from the Philippines have urged British banks not to fund the expansion of fossil fuel use in their country. It follows a huge oil spill that threatened a globally important marine biodiversity hotspot.

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A New Kind Of Self-Sustaining Fishery Could Offset The Worst Impacts Of Animal Farming

CB Insights

Offshore fish farming – fish farming in the deep, open ocean – could provide an alternative: Companies are exploring locating fish farms in deep, far-out waters, which (according to proponents) has barely any effect on wildlife or natural environmental processes. In Europe, the regulatory environment has been more friendly.

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Banks lent £1.9tn linked to ecosystem and wildlife destruction in 2019 – report

TheGuardian

Lack of policies regulating impact on natural world means finance industry effectively bankrolling biodiversity loss, analysis finds The world’s largest investment banks provided more than $2.6tn (£1.9tn) of financing linked to the destruction of ecosystems and wildlife last year, according to a new report.

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