EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

The statistics on plant-based proteins are eye opening: Beyond Meat’s shares have more than tripled in value since its IPO in May, Impossible Foods can now be found in about 10,000 restaurants, and the market for meat substitutes is expected to reach $2.5 Per the USDA , per capita meat consumption in 2018 was 219.5

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 7, 2020

The statistics on plant-based proteins are eye opening: Beyond Meat’s shares have more than tripled in value since its IPO in May, Impossible Foods can now be found in about 10,000 restaurants, and the market for meat substitutes is expected to reach $2.5 Demand for meat is growing. So is the demand for sustainability.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Moreover, soaring demand for the likes of palm oil, soy, and meat continues to drive clearances of forests and natural ecosystems for plantations and livestock is also pushing more CO2 into the atmosphere. Lab-grown meat, too, is attracting increasing interest, and is expected to start appearing on consumer plates in the coming years.

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Elemental Excelerator

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Between policy drivers, consumer demand and falling costs, there’s less risk around funding new climate technologies. What do year-over-year trends within our key investment sectors tell us about the future of climate tech? In other words, earlier-stage companies are starting to raise more money with less commercial traction.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

When brands do eventually and inevitably pivot their business models and products to low-carbon, sustainable options, they need marketing teams to have nurtured and cultivated demand from consumers to receive these new products well.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

Late last year, Quorn, the world's biggest meat alternative brand, started putting 'farm to shop' carbon footprint data on packs of its top selling 30 products. This isn't the first time that carbon footprint labelling has been in demand. A period of consolidation. So, will we see more companies putting carbon on the label?

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Grist

OCTOBER 23, 2019

They found that more than 250 firms have raised $2 billion in combined investments to capture and use carbon, or permanently store it underground. Extavour said that total investment is likely higher, because of the survey’s limited regional focus. . “Compared to the scale of the challenge, it’s a small number,” he said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Unilever recently set out its plan to significantly expand its plant-based range, with a view to securing €1bn in annual sales from alternative meat and dairy products within the next seven years. This year there has been quite a big shift," Verkuil says. "On

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Demand for livestock products like beef and milk must be reduced by 10-25 percent to attain low-emissions or net-zero goals (Costa et al., But ultimately, consumer demand for livestock products must be curbed to lower overall emissions. Dietary shifts are another significant way consumers can limit their personal food emissions.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 8, 2021

Buoyed by the success of red-meat mimics from the likes of Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, a growing number of companies is angling to capture their share of the early market for animal-free seafood. Overall, businesses creating all sorts of meat alternatives raised $3.1

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2021

Lab-grown meat enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2020, with investment soaring six-fold and dozens of new companies and food products launching across the burgeoning sector, according to the Good Food Institute (GFI). The climate impact of meat is considerable, accounting for around 14.5

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Today’s meat industry is dominated by a few multinational giants, including JBS , Tyson Foods , Vion , and Danish Crown , with access to markets across the world. In step with rising global demand, meat production has more than quadrupled in the past sixty years. We all have to demand more than just words.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Over the past decade, the world has woken up to the urgency of the climate crisis and consumers, governments, and investors are demanding that carbon intensive industries take action. This week, the EDF published an in-depth guide to help firms invest in enhancing the sustainability of their agricultural supply chains.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Still, estimates are wide and varied on the level of growth of the alternative protein market, with some anticipating it to reach 22 per cent by 2035 and others as high as 62 per cent by 2050, according to Ingrid Kukuljan, head of impact investing at Federated Hermes. "It Meat is risky business for companies.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

For their part, officials have often been more than happy to accede to industry representatives demands for higher quotas, according to Professor Callum Roberts from York University. "In A key starting point, then, is for businesses to treat the oceans not as an alien wilderness, but rather as a key asset base for their profits. "If

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2023

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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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Editor’s Note: Rob Leclerc is a Founding Partner at venture capital firm AgFunder where he co-leads the investment team with Founding Partner Michael Dean. The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production. The opinions expressed are those of the authors. And switch fast. Here there be Dragons.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 24, 2019

Similar assumptions are often made when considering economies of scale: more investment means more production means cost-reduction. . While sales of plant-based meat increased 23% from 2018, the actual volume of plant-based meat on the market still makes up a minuscule one-fifth of one percent of the entire meat industry.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

Norwegian CCS R&D hub, Technology Center Mongstad (TCM) has signed a contract with OGCI Climate Investments - the $1bn investment fund from the industry-backed Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) - to test carbon capture technology at TCM's facilities from March 2020. per cent year-on-year to 17.01

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