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Smelting ahead: Rio Tinto launches START sustainability label for low carbon aluminium

Business Green

Named START, the label was created to help Rio Tinto's customers meet consumer demand for transparency on where and how the products they buy are made, the Anglo-Australian firm said.

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The emerging “non-utilities”—EVs are helping new players in the energy marketplace.

Charged

Dramatic pricing changes, shifting cost structures, new demand curves and technologies that enable efficient decentralization are driving a dramatic shakeup of the energy marketplace, and new participants are adapting in their own ways. Blockchain solutions use encrypted codes to determine who is selling what to whom, and where, in real time.

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

GreenBiz

The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors. By 2030, it expects demand for seafood to be 30 percent higher than 2010 levels. Packaged tuna sales in general, lackluster for years, enjoyed a temporary lift during the early months of the pandemic.

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A clearer outlook? Autumn statement brings energy efficiency ambition (but bad news on bills)

Envirotec Magazine

Jeremy Hunt also unveiled a £6 billion extra package of support for initiatives like retrofitting to insulate homes and upgrade heating systems, from 2025 – although it wasn’t clear if this was new money or not. UrbanChain is a start-up utilising AI and Blockchain to overcome some traditional obstacles.

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

GreenBiz

As the demand for the resource overwhelms the supply, each additional unit consumed directly harms those who can no longer reap the benefits. To me, this really shows a demand from consumers for these products. Demand drives supply. The chief impediment is that the gain is private, yet the cost is public. It makes a difference.

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Mission Driven Podcast?—?Episode 5 with Nan Li of Obvious Ventures

Better Ventures

In one breath he will reference topics from Blockchain to autonomous vehicles to Adam Smith. Being a part of something more than your compensation package, more than the office space and the free lunches, to understand that you’re leaving a mark on the world?—?that’s

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. It uses blockchain to trace sourcing in India for guar, used in shampoos. Most of Mattel’s paper-based packaging is Forest Stewardship Council-certified.