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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. Mancozeb is used to protect plants against a range of dangerous fungal diseases, but was banned by the EU earlier this year over concerns about its impacts on human health and biodiversity. Political Connections.

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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts

Business Green

The production of genetically-modified foods can be controversial, but it can also offer benefits for increasing yields and easing pressure on land, water and biodiversity. That's why European law in this area is controversial. Issues surrounding genetically modified foods can be controversial.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients.

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2022 was the year that…

Business Green

With good reason: The climate and biodiversity crises, combined with the social and economic equity crises, are providing momentum and incentives for staying the course. And there were new climate laws in the United States and Europe, which breathed new life to climate action in those countries. It's not just on-road vehicles.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Prithivi Chellamuthu currently works as Senior Scientist – Curative, a biotech/healthcare startup involved in improving healthcare access to the community. She holds a Master’s in Urban Planning from Tufts University and a Master’s in International Business and Environmental Policy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . The potential is not chicken feed: the U.S. Meg Wilcox.