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Study: Replacing fifth of beef in diets with fungi-based 'meat' could halve deforestation

Business Green

Climate impact of beef worldwide is far higher than that of microbial-meat alternatives, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

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EXCLUSIVE: Improved Nature Raises $3m to Launch Plant-Based Protein Company

AFN Sustainable Protein

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

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EXCLUSIVE: Improved Nature Raises $3m to Launch Plant-Based Protein Company

AFN Sustainable Protein

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

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Climate-friendly diet study suggests three burgers a week guideline

Business Green

The new figures, released last week, also propose that by 2050 average meat consumption should fall further to 300g per week - a level that marks a massive reduction of 81 per cent on current levels, but is also in line with some medical recommendations for healthy meat consumption.

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Sustainable consumption: Get ready for the next frontier in the race to zero

Business Green

It is welcome news that the UK is halfway to reaching its target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. When brands do eventually and inevitably pivot their business models and products to low-carbon, sustainable options, they need marketing teams to have nurtured and cultivated demand from consumers to receive these new products well.

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A View of Climate Tech Trends through Elemental’s Portfolio Applicants

Elemental Excelerator

Between policy drivers, consumer demand and falling costs, there’s less risk around funding new climate technologies. And John Doerr’s Speed & Scale framework shows we need technologies capable of removing at least 1 gigaton of CO2 per year by 2025, and 10 gigatons by 2050. Why is that? Circular Economy: Shifting Upstream.

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Growth expected in plant-based protein space despite Beyond Meat's January blip

Business Green

Still, estimates are wide and varied on the level of growth of the alternative protein market, with some anticipating it to reach 22 per cent by 2035 and others as high as 62 per cent by 2050, according to Ingrid Kukuljan, head of impact investing at Federated Hermes. "It