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

GreenBiz

billion based on exchange rates this week) over the next decade in efforts to tackle climate change and deliver on a new goal to ensure net zero emissions across its value chain by 2039. Marc Engel, chief supply chain officer at the company, said that empowering farmers would deliver a "step change" in regenerating nature.

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

GreenBiz

Nestlé cites the sustainability benefits of reducing overfishing and protecting ocean biodiversity as motivators of these projects. Wolf believes the disruption of the pandemic has caused consumers to embrace plant-based foods partly as a way to address climate change on a personal level. New Wave Foods.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

The battle against climate change is vital. To give some concrete examples of what I mean, let’s talk about three major transformations that our food system needs to undertake to become more sustainable, and where we are not seeing the right pace of change. We don’t need small tweaks and improvements: We need a revolution. .

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

On top of that, the land plays host to much of the planet's biodiversity, providing incalculable benefits to humanity and the global economy, starting with the pollination that underpins the global food system. And then there are the big picture climate threats that poorly managed land can rapidly amplify. Cristiana Pa?ca

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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. The Brazilian company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange one year ago, sells beauty and biodiversity as intertwined. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15.

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Unilever unveils €1bn climate and nature fund

Business Green

Unilever has announced it will invest €1bn over the next decade in efforts to tackle climate change and deliver on a new goal to ensure net zero emissions across its value chain by 2039. Marc Engel, chief supply chain officer at the company, said that empowering farmers would deliver a "step change" in regenerating nature.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

AGreenLiving

The battle against climate change is vital. To give some concrete examples of what I mean, let’s talk about three major transformations that our food system needs to undertake to become more sustainable, and where we are not seeing the right pace of change. We don’t need small tweaks and improvements: We need a revolution.

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