The financial sector faces growing pressure to cut support to companies involved in deforestation. With researchers arguing that banks are in a unique position to encourage sustainable practices among clients and across supply chains,
John Basquill examines how emerging technology is opening new opportunities for trade finance lenders looking to go green.
Deforestation remains a major challenge for financial institutions, particularly those involved in supporting exports from rainforest-covered areas of South America.
Though most lenders have overhauled policies on environmental issues, researchers continue to uncover examples of companies involved in forest destruction – either directly through their own activities or indirectly through their supply chains – that are still heavily financed by major banks.
A week ago - December 8th, in fact - Californian DJ
Daniel Wang shared an aggressive status on his Facebook page, targeting fellow Berlin-based DJ
Peggy Gou. âThis strange year is coming to an end,â he wrote. âAnd two best things to happen in 2020 are: Donald Trump got voted out of the White House, and Peggy Gou moved out of my building.â Pinning these two individuals within the same sentence feels extremely strange to say the least, but unfortunately it doesnât end there.
From this point onwards Wangâs post continued to get increasingly worse as he details his frustrations towards Gou, having spent the last four years her neighbour. Throughout his post, he reiterates his displeasure with the DJ, describing her as narcissistic and greedy, amongst other personality flaws. His language, though, transforms Peggy Gou from aggressor into victim â he misses the target completely, frequently slipping into outright misogony, exclaiming: âsome part
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In November, British-Canadian techno lifer Richie Hawtin released an EP called
Time Warps.
On Bandcamp, the two-track release is described as Hawtin’s first dancefloor-focussed EP since
Minus Orange in 1999. The accompanying video for title track ‘Time Warps’ features a dancefloor blurred to abstraction, with bodies moving in hazy slow motion.
Four months ago, I had a rude awakening about the magnitude and virulence of misogyny in electronic music. I knew that women, trans people and non-binary people had always been undervalued in the scene, but I had no idea of just how insidious and widespread the problem was until I witnessed the online response to the death of chronic sexual predator Erick Morillo. Recently charged with rape, he was publicly mourned and celebrated following his passing â even after many victims shared their stories of his abuse, supported by witnesses.
Daniel Wangâs Facebook post this week â describing his elation at the fact that Peggy Gou had moved out of his Berlin apartment building â and the online response to it was a further study in ingrained misogyny. To date, 11,000 people have liked Wangâs laundry list of Gouâs crimes spanning her excessive makeup and perfume, expensive designer clothes and hundreds of pairs of shoes; her alleged ghost producing; kleptomania a