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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

GreenBiz

Large companies including Bumble Bee, Nestlé, Tyson, General Mills and Thai Union are making various plays, whether by investing in upstarts or flexing their research and development muscles to cultivate new products. The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors.

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Reaching net zero requires climate intervention and aggressive mitigation

Business Green

In any other sphere of human activity, be that concerning the military and all sectors of commerce, investment (plus many others), thorough due diligence (or its equivalent) would expose the risks and problems associated with not including nature's responses to human-induced climate change impacts in the analysis. The bottom line.

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Double materiality: Why nature risk and climate risk are two sides of the same coin

Business Green

Analysis by Carbon Tracker last week tallied up total oil sector write-downs at $87bn over the past nine months, thanks to a combination of lower oil demand and the accelerating clean energy transition. As such, moves are now being made to try and address these growing risks.

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? Charting a course to curb maritime emissions

Climate Tech VC

With the growth of e-commerce and demand for faster shipping (which means burning more fuel), maritime emissions increased nearly 5% between 2020 and 2021. The drop in sulfur oxide emissions, which ironically have a cooling effect in the atmosphere by reflecting light, has also played a role in record high ocean temps this year.

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Can Bumble Bee and Nestlé hook the world on fishless fish?

AGreenLiving

Large companies including Bumble Bee, Nestlé, Tyson, General Mills and Thai Union are making various plays, whether by investing in upstarts or flexing their research and development muscles to cultivate new products. The nonprofit has named the threatened collapse of fisheries and unmet demand for seafood alternatives as important factors.

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Review of Climate Policy Options

Low Carbon Prosperity

Pricing mechanisms promote conservation, efficiency improvements, and fuel switching, while encouraging investment in new cleantech innovations. Washington’s failed I-1631 – a carbon fee and invest initiative was a hybrid policy combining a pricing mechanism with subsidy programs. Carbon taxes can be beneficial to an economy.

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Not so moral money?

Business Green

The first thing to say about this week's explosively contrarian speech from Stuart Kirk , global head of responsible investing at HSBC Asset Management, on "why investors need not worry about climate risk" is that this is not really about Stuart Kirk. However, the lack of original analysis does not make this argument any less dangerous.