Study: Methane-busting food innovation could fuel 118 million jobs
Business Green
MAY 8, 2023
Researchers calculate planetary, social, and economic impacts of ramping up investments in meat alternatives
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'Outsize opportunity': How investors could help slash global food sector emissions and unlock a $1.5tr economic boost
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2023
Moreover, investors should urgently allocate capital away from industrial meat production towards alternative protein producers, which it said would help to slash methane emissions from agriculture in line with global targets, while also helping develop the market for meat alternatives.
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Carbon-negative snack company AKUA offers kelp jerky and pasta
AGreenLiving
JANUARY 22, 2020
That made me think, ‘Wow, what if we could create a line of meat alternative products from one of the most sustainable sources of food on the planet?’ Related: Eating seaweed could reduce cows’ methane production Why is kelp a good idea for food sustainability?
Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time
Energy Innovation
MARCH 8, 2023
Most of the low-emissions interventions analyzed (70 percent) utilize existing know-how and technologies: reducing deforestation, better managing manure, improving feed and breeding (which can reduce methane emissions from livestock), reducing nitrogen fertilizer overuse and runoff, and adopting renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Study: Replacing fifth of beef in diets with fungi-based 'meat' could halve deforestation
Business Green
MAY 5, 2022
Climate impact of beef worldwide is far higher than that of microbial-meat alternatives, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Investors are betting billions on carbontech. Will it pay off?
Grist
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Analysts say the market for plant-based protein and meat alternatives could balloon to $85 billion by 2030. This month, Opus 12 won a $1 million federal grant to turn waste CO2 and methane into chemicals with Industrial Microbes, a Bay Area company making a fermentation technology.
Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model
DeSmogBlog
JULY 18, 2021
While the industry promotes meat as a solution to world hunger, it has simultaneously sought to undermine the concept that significantly reducing meat in diets, or replacing animal products with non-meat alternatives, is an effective emissions reduction strategy.
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