A focus on how Instituto BioAtlântica (IBio), a collaboration between CI and four Brazilian companies, develops solutions that are both good for business and the conservation of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.

Recently, CI’s supporters gathered in San Francisco to kick off a series of events to celebrate our 20 Year Anniversary. As part of the evening’s events, award winning journalist Tom Friedman sat down with Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jared Diamond and Rob Walton, Chairman of Wal-Mart, for a candid conversation about the most pressing issues of the day.

In addition to Office Depot’s support of CI through the Forest & Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, the world’s leading reseller of paper has a number of ongoing environmental initiatives. We recently sat down with Yalmaz Siddiqui, Office Depot’s Environmental Strategy Advisor to discuss the company’s sustainability strategy, the 2006 Green Book of environmentally friendly products, and his own new hybrid vehicle.

The De Beers Group, the world’s largest diamond mining company, has committed more than $250,000 to continue development of ecological and financial tools for restoring lands degraded by mining in the Succulent Karoo biodiversity hotspot.

This year, the BP Conservation Programme, now in its 16th year, awarded 27 winning teams from 21 different countries with grants totaling $475,000. The awards support the vital work of a new rising generation of conservation professionals.

Mining Companies that want to improve their biodiversity performance now have a new set of tools to guide their operations, the Good Practice Guidance for Mining and Biodiversity.

BBOP program recently meet with the president of Madagascar, whom was interested in biodiversity offsets for the African island nation.

From a Time Mazagine cover story to former Vice President Al Gore's movie, "An Inconvienient Truth" debuting in theaters nationwide, you can't help but come across news about climate change these days. But what does all of this mean for your company? We asked Michael Totten, CI's climate change expert, to provide an analysis of the leading issues surrounding climate change as well as an update on how CI is engaging corporate partners to develop solutions to one of the planet's most pressing environmental problems.

Following two key announcements regarding its fish products, we sat down with Peter Redmond, vice president for Seafood and Deli at Wal-Mart, to discuss how the company is integrating sustainability into its seafood purchasing practices.

The World Bank recently convened a group of policymakers in Brussels, Belgium to review options for including forestry credits in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. Toby Janson-Smith, director for the CELB convened Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance, attended the conference and provides an insiders take on those discussions as well as an in-depth look at how the options being put forth impact biodiversity conservation efforts.