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  • smALL business needs nature to thrive

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    Unless we protect nature, ALL businesses – small and large - will not thrive. That’s the message that CI’s Chairman and CEO, Peter Seligmann, delivers this week to an online network of small business owners. CI’s Center for Environmental Leadership in Business (CELB) has launched a partnership with FedEX that will focus on efforts in China to: fight climate change by sequestering significant amounts of carbon through reforestation efforts, create local job opportunities in earthquake-affected areas in southwest China and secure the long-term survivability of the giant panda. CI has been pioneering projects like this for over 20 years, and the partnership with FedEx has provided ...
  • 30 million reasons to believe we can make a difference

    News | (1)

    There are times when working for an environmental organization is a soul-crushing experience. On miniscule budgets we battle against global obstacles so monumentally important that if we fail, the whole of humanity is in a heap of trouble. It’s not helped by the fact that so often we seem to be on a one-way street towards a rather bleak future – carbon dioxide emissions are getting worse, the oceans are being ravaged to feed our greed for cheap fish, the fresh water systems that keep billions of us alive are being undermined and the forests that provide us with medicines ...