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These Agribusiness Groups With Ties to Climate Denial are Trying to Influence the US-UK Trade Deal

DeSmogBlog

The ongoing US - UK trade talks have been seen by some lobby groups as an opportunity to strip back environmental and food safety regulations to allow them to sell products – pesticides, hormone-fed meat, genetically modified crops ( GMO s), and chemicals – that have been previously banned under EU law.

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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm takes an EV road trip, deals with charging challenges

Charged

The Secret Service apparently didn’t get the electric memo—its agents tagged along in the obligatory huge black gas-guzzling SUVs.) NPR’s Camila Domonoske rode along with Granholm’s entourage, which included a Cadillac Lyriq EV, a Ford F-150 Lightning and a Chevy Bolt EUV.

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

It’s natural to follow the people impacted by all this: the local residents, usually in poorer neighborhoods, whose homes and livelihoods are being lost; the farmers and ranchers whose crops and livestock are withering and dying; the stranded travelers and the evacuees seeking shelter amid the chaos. It placed the price tag at up to 10.5

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Study: Three quarters of UK businesses feel threatened by climate crisis

Business Green

Iggy Bassi, founder and chief executive of Cervest, said: "Our findings show that businesses are unclear of the risks that climate presents to them, and the potential price tag that goes with that. Bearing the brunt of this current pandemic will be an immediate focus for many companies.

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We need fresh thinking about the role of digital technologies in our food system

Business Green

In the UK, supermarket shelves have been stripped bare, foodbanks have faced unprecedented demand and producers are now calling for a 'land army' to prevent fields of crops from going to waste. For example, robots Tom, Dick and Harry are learning to monitor and tend to crops autonomously, under AI oversight from Wilma.

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Coffee prices spike, thanks to climate change

AGreenLiving

In July, a bout of cold weather in a major arabica coffee-producing part of Brazil ruined a third of the coffee crop. But he’s more worried about climate change than about the price tag. per kilogram. A very unlucky number, indeed. They’re waiting now to see if some of them can recover. They’ve lost their whole livelihood.”

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'Need for Feed': Why the farming industry needs to give animal feed a green refresh

Business Green

The WWF has put forward four recommendations for changing practices in animal feed production, calling on the sector to embrace industry-wide commitments to responsible sourcing, the use of regenerative agricultural practices to grow feed crops, the wider use of 'circular ingredients', and innovations in feed production.