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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Poll: British public 'overwhelmingly' backs robust supply chain deforestation laws

Business Green

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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Is A Lithium Cartel Inevitable?

R-Squared Energy

The first is that the vast majority of the world’s lithium resource is in South America — primarily in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia. But most of the lithium reserves are in South America; some in countries that have historically had a spotty relationship with the U.S. As the U.S. Thus, the U.S. As the U.S.

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Seaweed, cactus and lentils: How Knorr and other food brands are shifting to more sustainable ingredients

Business Green

And, in South Africa, Knorr said it had been working alongside WWF with smallholder farmers in drought-struck regions to boost the growth of more sustainable, reslient, indigenous Future 50 Foods crops such as fonio and Bambara groundnuts.

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Reports: Johnson to push for 'Green Marshall Plan' at G7 Summit

Business Green

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment. Repurposing some existing development aid simply isn't going to cut it.".

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