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'Urgent priority': Can 2021 usher in a sustainable food system transformation?

Business Green

Nobody wants the food they consume to have destroyed forests, habitats, and wildlife on its way to their plate, and yet the system that underpins our global food supplies today continues to be one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss and climate change worldwide. These three levers are in part interdependent," it adds.

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

GreenBiz

Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood. Overall, businesses creating all sorts of meat alternatives raised $3.1

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Report: Lab-grown meat investment tops $350m worldwide in 2020

Business Green

Lab-grown meat enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2020, with investment soaring six-fold and dozens of new companies and food products launching across the burgeoning sector, according to the Good Food Institute (GFI). The climate impact of meat is considerable, accounting for around 14.5

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

AGreenLiving

Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood. Overall, businesses creating all sorts of meat alternatives raised $3.1

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Can animal-based agriculture ever be truly sustainable?

Business Green

A major new report from the Environmental Defense Fund asks some challenging questions about the limited progress the agricultural sector has made in tackling its out-sized climate and biodiversity impacts - and offers some invaluable guidance on how up its sustainability efforts.

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Could just three policy levers trigger a global cascade of climate action?

Business Green

Low carbon hydrogen has increasingly been touted as a potential solution for decarbonising a raft of industries and processes, yet production capacity is far from scaling up to meet demand at present. Governments have been reluctant to date to encourage people to eat less meat or introduce policies such as meat taxes.

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