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Sustainable consumption: Get ready for the next frontier in the race to zero

Business Green

Forecasting work carried out by the Climate Change Committee in 2019 on the UK's contribution to stopping global warming shows that 59 per cent of the changes the UK needs to make to achieve net zero rely not just on the large-scale transition to low-carbon technologies but also on wider human and societal behaviour change.

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Carbon-negative snack company AKUA offers kelp jerky and pasta

AGreenLiving

In recent years, seaweed has been quite a catch for health-conscious consumers, in turn, making kelp, a brown macroalgae, one of the more in-demand types of seaweed offerings. 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?’

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

Business Green

Low carbon hydrogen has increasingly been touted as a potential solution for decarbonising a raft of industries and processes, yet production capacity is far from scaling up to meet demand at present. Governments have been reluctant to date to encourage people to eat less meat or introduce policies such as meat taxes.

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