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Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

DeSmogBlog

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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The European bison population is no longer vulnerable

AGreenLiving

Thanks to long-term conservation work, the population has increased to more than 6,200, up from a 2003 figure of only 1,800. The Tarcu herd of over 65 bison was developed by WWF Romania and Rewilding Europe. Its mission is to create a viable population of bison in Romania that would breed in the wild, promoting biodiversity.

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Are carbon offsets the answer to the climate change crisis?

Business Green

Globally, the challenge is even greater of course, since Europe is in fact a leader when it comes to tackling climate change. Commenting on the challenge ahead, the European Commission said: "This flow of investment will need to be sustained over time.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe.

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COP27: 'Brazil is back' in global climate fight, Lula promises

Business Green

On the domestic front, Lula talked up the huge economic and jobs potential for Brazil from clean technologies such as renewable energy, green hydrogen, and biofuels, as well as sustainable regenerative farming practices that can support rather than damage forests and biodiversity.

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Interview with Brian Czech: the impossibility of a perpetually-growing economy

Low Impact

I established CASSE in 2003, and worked part-time as its president for many years, then quit the federal government in 2017 to run CASSE full-time. They prohibited me from even mentioning the conflict between GDP growth and biodiversity conservation. We’re losing biodiversity every step of the way.