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

DeSmogBlog

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. In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Terreform ONE’s plans to upend cities and suburbs in a post-pandemic world

GreenBiz

That may sound fanciful — and, for some, less than appetizing — but insect consumption is hardly a novel concept, according to a 2013 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report.

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Terreform ONE's plans to upend cities and suburbs in a post-pandemic world

Business Green

That may sound fanciful - and, for some, less than appetizing - but insect consumption is hardly a novel concept, according to a 2013 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation report.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing.

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Terreform ONE’s plans to upend cities and suburbs in a post-pandemic world

AGreenLiving

That may sound fanciful — and, for some, less than appetizing — but insect consumption is hardly a novel concept, according to a 2013 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report.

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The Glasgow Climate Pact: A guide for business

Business Green

If richer nations can come up with financial support packages for emerging economies to wean them off fossil fuels - as the coal agreement with South Africa announced at the Summit perhaps signposts - then there is hope that the clean energy transition can start to rapidly accelerate in the 2020s. Nature and biodiversity.

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50 Books on Climate Change and Sustainbility

Green Market Oracle

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Nassos and Nikos Avlonas, 2013 The new edition is a practical guide to about moving towards a Sustainable Economy updated with practical case studies and supporting teaching material. Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change, edited by Melissa R.