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Farmers fear climate crisis will have greater impact on their business than coronavirus

Business Green

A survey of 600 farmers carried out by the pollster on behalf of Swiss biotechnology giant Syngenta in February found 72 per cent were worried about the impact of climate change on their crop yields, animal health, and ability to do business.

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GreenTech Painting: Eco-Painting Services for the Home, Business and More

Green Business Bureau

From interior to exterior, GreenTech Painting not only guarantees quality workmanship and custom solutions but promotes the health and safety of their customers, communities and environment too. For Granados and Rojas, the interconnection between business practice and human and ecological health is clearly evident.

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Elemental Excelerator to Fund 15 Climate Companies in 12th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

C16 Biosciences developed a biotechnology platform to create truly sustainable oils and fats, starting with a replacement for palm oil, which is found in 50% of consumer products and is a major culprit of deforestation. The why: Palm oil is responsible for 1.4% of total GHG emissions, about as much as the entire aviation sector.

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2022 Decarbon8 AgTech funding round open now

E8 Cleantech Angels

E8, an impact investor community specializing in climate tech and cleantech, invites applications from early-stage companies to its 2022 Decarbon8-US funding round focused on technological solutions that advance regenerative agriculture and reduce its environmental impacts. Ag and ecosystem biotechnology (e.g. Evaluation Criteria.

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. Because biotechnology alone can’t restore the American chestnut to the numbers that its supporters are envisioning, Powell anticipates relying on citizen scientists. (Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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Study: Eating less meat should be focus of global post-Covid-19 recovery plans

Business Green

Published today in The Lancet Planetary Health , the new study examines the impact of Covid-19 globally and explores how the food system could play a critical role in driving economic recovery while enhancing both human and environmental health.

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Understanding Overlapping Corporate Disinformation Campaigns is Critical to Telling the Full Story About Science Denial

DeSmogBlog

Bayer, which now owns Monsanto , announced at the end of July that it will re m ove the harmful pesticide glyphosate — a “ probable carcinogen ” — from its Roundup herbicide products by 2023, as it continues to face mounting pressure from lawsuits about the product’s health impacts. .