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Ÿnsect attracts $372m backing as it gears up 'world's largest' insect farm in France

Business Green

Insect protein developer has created a patented process for cultivating mealworm to produce low carbon feed for fish, pet and livestock. In addition, the firm said the new facility in France would be carbon negative, and use a circular economy model than generates zero waste.

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Negative Emission Technologies And Land Use

Energy Innovation

Given the Paris Accord’s aspirations, the climate challenge facing humanity can be expressed in simple terms: halve annual carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions by 2030, halve them again by 2040, and again by 2050. 2017, Faulk, 2019). Here we focus on some aspects of land-use and negative emission technologies (NET) dependent on the land.

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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

The company would take those almond shells and other types of biomass, convert them into a carbon-rich oil, and inject the oil deep underground. Strange as it may sound, demand for this service — a form of what’s called “ carbon removal ” — was just beginning to grow. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Lessons from Denmark: How the agriculture sector can produce more food on less land

Business Green

Could Denmark deliver a carbon neutral farming sector by 2050? Whether you have a stake in Denmark's farming sector or not, the findings of the technical report, entitled A Pathway to Carbon Neutral Agriculture in Denmark , are significant. This carbon sequestration potential would cover the majority of the projected 4.4

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'Net zero doesn't solve the problem': Five key lessons from the CCC's climate risk assessment

Business Green

Neither was there any consideration of these climate threats and their implications in the Future Homes Standard consultation, the 2017 Industrial Strategy, Parliament's pioneering Climate Assembly initiative, or the doomed Green Homes Grant scheme. We cannot expect nature to mop up all that carbon if it's too dry for the trees to grow.

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Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

AFN Sustainable Protein

Still, UN evidence shows the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 — one in every nine people — according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018. His startup has just created Panorama, an open-source software to map out Sweden’s path to a carbon-neutral future.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.