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New Plant-based Food Alliance launched to promote more sustainable eating choices

Business Green

It is also set to campaign for improved environmental labelling on food and drink products, public health campaigns that explain the benefits of plant-based meals, and support for farmers to help them transition to plant-based food production. This is a change we're seeing in every demographic of the population. "We

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'Nothing has changed, yet everything has changed': Net zero in the wake of Covid-19

Business Green

The world currently finds itself battling a major public health and economic crisis as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, yet - as the green economy knows only too well - it also faces a race against time to avoid a crisis of far greater and longer-lasting proportions in the form of accelerating climate change.

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The Chancellor's Green Jobs Plan: The Green Economy Reaction

Business Green

We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum'. We hope that the forthcoming Budget, White Paper and National Infrastructure Plan will provide further momentum so we can go further and faster in decarbonising our economy.".

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'Indispensible': Can the carbon offset market bolster its credibility?

Business Green

Providing these households with clean cookstoves can both eliminate carbon emissions and catalyse progress towards a raft of other development goals , including improved health, nutrition, education, and gender equality. But today, nearly three billion people still use polluting and dangerous fuels to cook their food.

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'Action is needed now': CBI leads flurry of calls for green recovery

Business Green

The report - titled Principles for a low-carbon, sustainable and net-zero aligned economic recovery post COVID-19 - suggests five key government interventions aimed at harnessing growing political, business, and consumer will to tackle the climate emergency, as well as a raft of specific policy recommendations.

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

His relatives participated in political acts such as the occupation of Wounded Knee by Indigenous people from across the U.S., White paper bags festooned the taller trees, their flowers covered to manage fertilization. Patterson’s mother made her children speak Tuscarora at home to keep the language alive.

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The Rise of the ‘Climate Friendly’ Cow

DeSmogBlog

The political economist and policy fellow at Harvard University likens the industry’s techno-fix mentality to the fossil fuel industry’s sustained push for carbon capture and storage, a technology as yet unproven at scale. In a 2021 press release , Elanco referenced Frank Mitloehner’s white paper , “Pathway to Climate Neutrality for U.S.