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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio. The exclusion of JBS is quite dramatic for us because it is from all of our funds, not just the ones labelled ESG," Eric Pedersen, Nordea’s head of responsible investments, told The Guardian. .

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

AGreenLiving

Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio. Paris-based Ossiam just launched a global equity ETF that invests in food companies making efforts to minimize habitat and biodiversity destruction. Subscribe here.

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2022’s 5 biggest foodtech deals

AFN Sustainable Protein

Data Snapshot is a regular AFN feature analyzing agrifoodtech market investment data provided by our parent company, AgFunder. The top 2022 deal was Getir’s $768 million Series E raise led by Emirati and state-owned Mubadala Investment Company. All of this came after its $1.25 Image credit: Weee! – $425m.

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Top 10 alternative protein startups brought in $1.3bn in 2022 vs $2.3bn in 2021

AFN Sustainable Protein

It’s been a tough few months for alternative protein startups, particularly those developing plant-based meat, dairy, and seafood alternatives (as opposed to those in the cellular agriculture space). The funding was led by Hanaco Ventures , a venture capital based both in New York and Tel-Aviv that invests in Israeli startups.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

My ears perked up when Bren Haase, the current executive director of the CPRA, profusely thanked Eric Beightel, the head of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council established in 2015. T-shirts with sponsors’ names worn by guests at a Katrina 10-year anniversary event in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward on August 29, 2015.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

Without good water quality, you won’t have good seafood,” said Toomer, who serves on the Bluffton town council as mayor pro tempore. Bluffton is in the process of phasing out septic systems and constructing a community sewer system — a major investment that requires building sewer lines and hook-ups to each home.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Baker McKenzie established its climate change practice two decades ago, one of the first firms to do so, and it is one of the largest law organizations to belong to the United Nations Global Compact, which it joined in 2015. Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments. LinkedIn | Twitter. LinkedIn | Twitter.