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Soy scandals: Green groups raise alarm over deforestation impact of corporates' soy supply chains

Business Green

Two new reports today warn urgent is needed to eliminate deforestation arising from surging demand for soy. Collectively, the 22 traders wield enough power to trigger large-scale, transformative change across the soy industry, WWF said, yet too little is being done to curtail soy-linked deforestation.

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Welcome to the Pyrocene

Grist

Siberian fires moved north of their home territory and flared beyond the Arctic Circle. The Pantanal wetlands in central South America burned. Where fires were not visible, the lights of cities and of gas flares were: combustion via the transubstantiation of coal and gas into electricity. It generates raw power.

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? Old nuclear, new-clear #161

Climate Tech VC

The US grid got its first new nuclear power in nearly seven years last week. Plant Vogtle began commercial operations from the first of two new reactors, but the over-budget and years-delayed project could be the last hurrah for big nuclear construction in America. Happy Monday! Not a subscriber yet?