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Carbon-negative snack company AKUA offers kelp jerky and pasta

AGreenLiving

That made me think, ‘Wow, what if we could create a line of meat alternative products from one of the most sustainable sources of food on the planet?’ Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change.

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Beans over burgers: Why the National Food Strategy should focus on natural ingredients over fake meats

Business Green

This week a campaign group of food industry founders, including Pipers Farm, Arthur Potts-Dawson and Doug McMaster are calling on the government to think carefully about its strategy for meat alternatives. Plant-based meats, meanwhile, have been shown in some studies to generate the same carbon emissions as chicken.

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A plant-based recovery? The Vegetarian Butcher's Hugo Verkuil on shifting diets during a pandemic

Business Green

As burger wars wage in Brussels over whether plant-based products can deploy terminology traditionally used for meat and dairy, some of the world's most prolific meat producers have been gobbling up small plant-based start-ups in order to launch their own low carbon meat lines.

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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

Business Green

Moreover, more than half of respondents to the Savanta ComRes survey claimed to be aware that the current food system had negative impacts on climate change, air, water and soil pollution, and that it can drive destructive land-use changes such as deforestation.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

In February last year, the head of a leading global meat industry body gave a “pep talk” to his colleagues at an Australian agriculture conference. Huang’s speech points to an industry nervous about its role in a carbon-constrained future. Not all meat companies avoid talking about their Scope 3 emissions, however.

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

Business Green

As many commentators have noted, there is no silver bullet for tackling carbon emissions. So it stands to reason that, focusing decarbonisation efforts on just a handful of these carbon intensive sectors could make an outsized impact to the global transition to net zero.

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SDG14: How to develop a cleaner ocean strategy

Business Green

From nurturing ocean carbon sinks to encouraging marine clean tech, there are steps all businesses can take to accelerate progress towards SDG14. While most people are aware of the role forests play in soaking up carbon dioxide, fewer know that oceans do the same.