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Impact unicorns: Green firms dominate list of UK's most valuable tech start-ups

Business Green

The government said impact investment had risen 127 per cent in the UK since 2018, demonstrating how technology has become ever more important for tackling the world's biggests problems, such as climate change, escalating health risks, and food insecurity, and that investors are increasingly taking note.

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Alphabet moonshot Tidal heralds the age of precision aquaculture

Business Green

Today, the health and welfare decisions for thousands of fish are based on observing a few individual fish that are taken out of the water and manually inspected - a data-gathering process that's time-consuming, unreliable and impossible to scale," writes Neil Davé , general manager for Tidal, in a Medium post. in a recent report.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. Beth Ford; President & CEO; Land O’Lakes; Arden Hills, Minnesota.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

AGreenLiving

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. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. billion years of evolution.

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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. Prior to his current role he worked as scientist in a public health lab, and as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. . He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. The potential is not chicken feed: the U.S. Mesbah Sabur, 27. LinkedIn | Twitter.