Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

By breaking down the complexity of the sustainable development agenda into consumer behaviours like reducing packaging, recycling or switching to renewable energy, or making a plant-based lifestyle aspirational, brands and corporates can create compelling campaigns that drive revenue and trigger sustainable behaviour change.

Sustainability 60

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

Qin and Horvath found in their 2022 study published in Resources, Conservation & Recycling that in the U.S., In a 2022 analysis in Resources, Conservation and Recycling , co-authors Mengqing Kan and Shelie Miller focused on the environmental impacts of plastic packaging across a food’s entire lifecycle as well as its annual consumption.

Waste 59

Waste Waste Packaging Transportation 59

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. . Still, the technology doesn’t exactly eliminate carbon; it recycles it.

Startups 56

Startups Carbon Fossil fuels Climate change 56

Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2021

Providing recyclable to-go boxes and encouraging customers to take home leftovers is another effective way to reduce waste. If investing in reusable tableware isn’t an option for your company, there are plenty of ways to make single-use tableware more eco-friendly. Reduce Water Waste.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2020

If you establish a hatchery, you don't just use what's there at the start and then let it go to rot - you invest in maintaining it," says Essam Y Mohammed, head of blue economy at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The same mentality is needed for marine resources.". This really needs to change.".

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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. And so despite the size of the opportunity, investment in this sector comes with significant risks and challenges. The opinions expressed are those of the authors.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 10, 2019

(If you include seafood in your definition of meat — jury out over here at AgFunder! T he CEO of major meat alternative producer Monde Nissin, Henry Soesanto , also invested alongside Chinese agri-foodtech VC Bits x Bites, Tyson Ventures, and Manta Ray Ventures, a UK-based venture capital firm.

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