日内瓦，2021年12月6日 – Today, the 正规博彩十大网站’s (WBCSD) 土壤投资中心 (SIH)推出了The 《正规博彩十大网站》. Investing in soil has returns and benefits to companies, 帮助实现生产力, 通过弹性实现业务连续性, helps companies to meet corporate targets and net zero emissions, 零土地非农化，保护生物多样性.
The SIH Report aims to support food and agriculture companies to invest in impactful, 高价值的, and long-term solutions for healthy 土壤 along their supply chains and beyond. It identifies 13 investment mechanisms that have distinct connection to material impacts and types of financial, 环境, 社会回报.
The SIH has mobilized business and other key stakeholders throughout 2021 to advocate for increasing and accelerating soil health investments. 科学家们, 农业协会和农民, 学术界, civil society and key business representatives convened regularly to drive progress through monthly ‘Friends of Soil Health Dialogues’.
Our food system is essential to addressing three global challenges the world faces today – the climate emergency, 自然环境的丧失和日益加剧的不平等. A central part of the food system is the natural resource that is soil. 健康的 soil is a critical driver of the UN Sustainable 发展 Goals, 支持适应和减缓气候变化, 促进生物多样性, 食品安全, 以及有韧性和公平的生计. 我们不能得到1.没有健康土壤的5度路径.
展望未来, the SIH continue developing business guidance to mainstream investments into soil health across corporate investment processes. A toolkit will follow in 2022 to help business monitor and report on the impact of their soil investments. WBCSD calls for business to elevate soil health commitments and work collaboratively to enable and scale sustainable soil agricultural practices.
Hanneke Faber，食品总裁 & 点心、联合利华 highlighted that “Soil health is essential for humankind. Without healthy 土壤, we cannot produce enough food for everybody on this planet. 健康的 soil is essential to support thriving communities, economies, and natural ecosystems. 我们期待着继续与农民合作, 供应商确保我们今天保护土壤, 明天和我们的子孙后代.”
荷兰合作银行(Rabobank Group)首席执行官韦博•德赖杰(Wiebe Draijer) added that “Rabobank feel deeply committed to help make the shift in the food systems happen. We need to find ways to incentivize farmers to become the heroes of the change, 并帮助他们在作物中储存碳, 土壤, 和字段. Let's work together to shape the incentives for farmers so that they became the hero of the changes that lies ahead".
亚历克斯·贝尔 Agoro碳联盟首席执行官亚拉 国际 highlighted that “We are working to protect and restore our planet’s soil, while making it an essential part of the solution to our common climate challenge. 在Agoro, we work to scale and accelerate this transition to regenerative farming through agronomic support and financial incentives to make sure that farmers have everything they need to lead this transition to healthier 土壤, 更有利可图的农场, 减少温室气体排放。”.
托尼Siantonas，署长 扩大积极农业，WBCSD added that “Soils are a natural asset at the heart of our food system, 为人们提供了难以置信的回报, 地球与商业. But land degradation still causes billions in lost earnings each year and harms the delivery of critical ecosystem services. 我们敦促企业从根本上扩大规模, channel and maximize the robustness of investments based on science and best-practice standards for healthy 土壤. The aim of the 土壤投资中心 is to offer a space to share and collectively identify challenges and seek solutions together – and we’re excited to continue driving this movement forward.”
