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How To Buy Carbon Offsets: 6 Certified and Vetted Options

Green Business Bureau

In our previous Green Business Bureau article, titled Carbon Offsets Vs Carbon Credits: Addressing The Issues (The 5 Rules of Carbon Offsetting) , we discuss the rules that ensure offsets deliver the GHG emission reductions promised, and do so ethically. Carbon offset program #3: Methane abatement.

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First regenerative turkeys in California are from Cream Co.

AGreenLiving

It’s bad for the environment in many ways, including sucking up resources, releasing high levels of methane and stripping the soil. “[We] are invested in every aspect of [our] partners’ operations, from the art of heritage breed and feed selection, through to the logistics of humane slaughter and efficient distribution.”

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

DeSmogBlog

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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

GreenBiz

One juicy hamburger for you equates to (about) 600 gallons of water consumed, 0.126 pounds of methane released, 13.5 It drives most of the food and beverage industry climate impacts, threatens biodiversity and water, as well as habitat for people and animals. The chief impediment is that the gain is private, yet the cost is public.

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Food Strategy: How the government served up a dish that disappointed almost everyone

Business Green

The Strategy promises that £270m is to be invested across farming innovation funding programmes until 2029, but it does not appear to be new money and the level of funding remains relatively low compared to other clean tech sectors. Fresh funding commitments are kept to a minimum.

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

Business Green

Good Food Institute report details record-breaking year for the fledgling sector, amid growing interest in greener, more ethical alternatives to livestock-reared meat. The report also highlights seafood as the next frontier for alternative proteins, amid growing concern over severely over-fished oceans and dwindling marine biodiversity.

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U.S. Embrace of ‘Climate-Smart’ Agriculture at COP27 Faces Scrutiny

DeSmogBlog

Overall, the agriculture sector accounts for up to one third of greenhouse gasses – and is also a primary driver of biodiversity loss. A key plank of the EU’s Green Deal, the strategy aims to transform farming and align the sector with the bloc’s climate and biodiversity targets. They include precision farming (e.g.