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'Outsize opportunity': How investors could help slash global food sector emissions and unlock a $1.5tr economic boost

Business Green

The report also urges the financial sector to implement robust policies to ensure zero deforestation risk in investment portfolios, target deforestation-linked emissions in corporate net zero strategies, and encourage investment in regenerative farming activities.

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Reducing Food System Emissions, One Bite At A Time

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. A full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Why do so many U.S.

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Investors are betting billions on carbontech. Will it pay off?

Grist

While governments and deep-pocketed energy companies still contribute the most, the funding pool also includes philanthropies and wealthy people looking to accelerate the low-carbon economy. Yet acceptance is growing among investors and policy experts as climate studies grow more grim. energy secretary, said during the U.N.

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

Business Green

Yet it is also true that everywhere you look, from national policy right the way down to individual everyday behaviours, there are scores of relatively simple tweaks and changes that, if all totted up together, could amount to a significant and permanent dent in global emissions. There is some recent historical precedent to back this up.

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A View of Climate Tech Trends through Elemental’s Portfolio Applicants

Elemental Excelerator

Between policy drivers, consumer demand and falling costs, there’s less risk around funding new climate technologies. Within the food and agriculture sector, we are seeing a rising prevalence of companies developing meat alternatives (3% to 15%) and aquaculture technology (5% to 15%) over a four year span. Why is that?

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Study: Replacing fifth of beef in diets with fungi-based 'meat' could halve deforestation

Business Green

Climate impact of beef worldwide is far higher than that of microbial-meat alternatives, according to a new study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. said Popp.

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SDG14: How to develop a cleaner ocean strategy

Business Green

The transboundary nature of the seas can make effective government action difficult, as policy initiatives inevitably get bogged down in interminable negotiations and geopolitical power-plays. This can then be used simply as a deposit, or as a raw material for marking different types of food stuff or energy.".