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Unilever unveils climate and nature fund worth more than $1 billion

GreenBiz

Tue, 06/16/2020 - 00:30. As such it pledged to increase traceability and transparency by using emerging digital technologies — such as satellite monitoring, geolocation tracking and blockchain systems — to enhance oversight, accelerate smallholder engagement and improve its approach to derivates sourcing. Cecilia Keating. Pull Quote.

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Feasibility study will examine plastics circularity in Nigeria

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The work is being undertaken by an ongoing partnership between chemicals firm Dow and Empower, a Norwegian circular platform company which uses blockchain technology to track plastics waste. A new study will examine the feasibility of advancing fully circular value chains in Nigeria, to help close the loop on plastics waste.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30. Mon, 06/22/2020 - 02:30. The GreenBiz 2020 30 Under 30 honorees were nominated by GreenBiz readers and community members around the world and selected by the GreenBiz editorial team. When he offered her a job leading the company’s global sustainable packaging initiative, she jumped at it.

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AB InBev VP: Our quest for 'agile' sustainable development continues

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Tue, 05/19/2020 - 02:37. The beermaker’s 2025 goals pledge bold advances in water strategy, returnable or recyclable packaging, renewable energy procurement (its U.S. Barcenas, the executive responsible for managing that plan and part of the GreenBiz 2020 Badass Women in Sustainability list , joined the company seven years ago.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Elsa Wenzel.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

Plant-based and cultivated seafood companies raised $80 million in 2020, according to the nonprofit Good Food Institute (GFI), which counts 800 companies involved in the space. The company's sales of vegetarian and plant-based items grew by more than $222 million in 2019 and leaped by 40 percent in the first half of 2020. "In

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January 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Cleantech Investor Trends |The Wide World of Electric Vehicles…

Clean Energy Trust

January 2021 Cleantech Roundup: Cleantech Investor Trends |The Wide World of Electric Vehicles |Policy Targets and Bullseyes It’s a new year, but before we leave 2020 too far behind this month we’re touching on some data from 2020 on cleantech investing and on electric vehicle adoption. One interesting tidbit?—?their