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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

Green MEPs protested in 2013 against pesticides that may harm vital pollinators. This includes controversial neonicotinoids, which have been partially banned in the EU since 2013 due to substantial scientific evidence they harm bee populations. Credit: greensefa. In October 2021, the EU allowed the continued use of the chemical.

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Media brief: What are carbon offsets and how can they be used?

Clean Energy Canada

Carbon offsets have been enabled under international law in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and were first used internationally in 2001. Challenges in developing effective policy for soil carbon sequestration: Perspectives on additionality, leakage, and permanence. The office of the Auditor General [link] OAG%20Carbon%20Neutral.pdf (2013).

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Climate Intelligence: The Digital Fabric for Climate Action

Better Ventures

According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below). Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. and Canadian cities. "At

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On the Future of our Food

Mr. Sustainability

Soil degradation. The first hamburger from lab-grown meat was created by Mark Post from the Maatsricht University back in 2013. The rules are so strict, that some cheeses that we have been eating for centuries would have been banned under these laws. The beauty of this type of agriculture, is that it does not require soil.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

According to one calculation in a 2013 analysis co-authored by nuclear physicist and radioactive waste specialist, Marvin Resnikoff, if oil and gas waste were appropriately characterized, disposal costs could increase by more than half a million dollars for every well drilled. Lotus’s first international shipment was 65.5

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. and Canadian cities. .