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Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million

GreenBiz

It's applied in packaging facilities or warehouses using a water-based formula. The new funding will enable Apeel to continue is international expansion, especially in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, Central America and South America — places where there are higher rates of both food waste and food insecurity.

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'Supercharging adoption of sustainable solutions': Top brands sign up to 100+ Accelerator green supply chain programme

Business Green

Some of the initiatives have included returnable packaging programmes, the roll out of new cleaning technologies to reduce water and energy use in Colombian brewing operations, projects to provide insurance and traceability for small farms in Africa and South America, and measures to improve waste collection in Brazil.

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Poll: British public 'overwhelmingly' backs robust supply chain deforestation laws

Business Green

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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Smart energy benefits the people, and those who deliver it

Smart Energy International

These advances might not matter as much in rain-soaked Europe but in much of Africa, South America, Central and Southeast Asia they are vital to continuity of life. Also of interest: How the energy industry can take the lead on making the digital world more sustainable The EU Clean Energy Package and the smart grid.

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction.

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Food waste startup Apeel Sciences snags $250m backing

Business Green

It's applied in packaging facilities or warehouses using a water-based formula. The new funding is aimed at helping enable Apeel to continue is international expansion, especially in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, Central America and South America - places where there are higher rates of both food waste and food insecurity, it explained.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to an analysis published by Oxford University’s Our World in Data project, the transport, processing, retail, and packaging of food, account for only a small share of emissions, while most GHG emissions caused by animal agriculture result from the production of the meat itself.