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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. Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification.

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Review of Climate Policy Options

Low Carbon Prosperity

This article provides a primer on the three major policy building blocks available for reducing carbon pollution: pricing mechanisms, subsidies , and regulations. Pricing mechanisms promote conservation, efficiency improvements, and fuel switching, while encouraging investment in new cleantech innovations.

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

Business Green

Of course, nature-related risks are arguably even more complex to tackle than climate risks, due to the myriad threats such as water scarcity, soil erosion, ocean acidification, chemical pollution, and even - as starkly illustrated by Covid-19 - disease transmission all causing very different regional impacts.

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? Charting a course to curb maritime emissions

Climate Tech VC

Despite fears about cost increases and low-sulfur fuel availability, the change was a success in terms of decreasing pollution that contributes to ocean acidification and harms the health of humans and marine life. This year, the price spread has contracted , shrinking the savings gained by investing in scrubber installations.

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How a town tethered to coral learned to save its reef — and itself

Grist

While reefs are suffering because of a variety of factors — overfishing, pollution, and ocean acidification among them — it’s widespread warming that is causing the most concern, as sea surface temperatures have slowly ticked up over the last 100 years. It’s not just the science that has Bezerra invested in this project.

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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.

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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. Seaweed, on the other hand, which makes up New Wave’s shrimp-mimic, sequesters carbon and reduces ocean acidification.

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