AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the agrifoodtech ecosystem, upstream technologies — those operating on the farm or in the production of food — are where the greatest climate opportunities are, and investment in these categories will be critical to improving Africa’s climate resilience. million, it’s still clearly under-invested.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

This is another in the realm of the “business case” for sustainability (within a corporation for its own capital and investment decisions, not as an investment thesis for investors). Raising the price on carbon or other inputs drives different capital and investment decisions. They shouldn’t. Our Own Biases Trick Us.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Building more resilient supply chains is a business imperative, especially as the likelihood for more disruption increases. Businesses in response are making strategic, longer-term changes to become more resilient to increased climate impacts like drought, wildfire, extreme weather and sea level rise. And so too is mitigation.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

The UK government has awarded up to £30 million to “cutting-edge farming projects” that will boost food production, move towards net zero, and create a more resilient and sustainable agricultural sector. million available to fund innovative projects helping to deliver a more productive, resilient and sustainable agricultural sector.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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EDF + Business

MAY 12, 2021

Food and agricultural companies in particular face challenges associated with more extreme and volatile weather, both in terms of the impact it has on their bottom line, as well as their long-term resilience and ability to withstand disruptions. . Ame Igharo, Project Manager, Sustainable Food & Products.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

When biodiversity is protected, and ecosystems are healthy and diverse, farmers are more productive and more resilient to climate change.”. Biodiversity supports food production through soil formation, land productivity, pest and disease control, replenishing ground water and pollination services. million tons of carbon dioxide.

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Business Green

AUGUST 26, 2020

HSBC has announced the birth of an innovative new green approach to asset management, outlining plans to partner with climate change consultancy Pollination Group to create a new investment fund focused on "natural capital". Investing in the resilience of nature is investing in the resilience of the economy," he added.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 3, 2021

Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forest. A new report highlights differences in the approaches used to produce agricultural soil carbon credits and how this can cause uncertainty for companies looking to purchase or generate them. Does soil carbon have a role to play in corporate climate strategies?

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The UK start-up manufactures biochar from woody biomass waste and compost for use as an agricultural soil enhancer, and hopes to sell the CO2 sequestered from the process in the form of credible and "ethical" offsets. It is a catalyst for helping to restore natural balances," explains Casely.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a leading nonprofit investor in climate technology for deep community impact, introduced its latest cohort, bringing its total amount of investments to $79M. These 15 climate companies will join an existing portfolio of more than 150 investments. invested in Cohort 12, $7.2M Of the $12.5M

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

Only in recent years have governments recognised more funding will need to be provided to help developing economies adapt to worsening climate risks, and even then the question of how to mobilised increased investment remains highly contentious. This is a kind of mindset issue, as opposed to a huge investment issue," Limbert said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Ministers should urgently 'make a clear statement of ambition' on climate and flood resilience, UK climate, infrastructure and insurance experts warn. The letter welcomes efforts from the government to invest in flood protection, including a pledge to invest £4bn in flood defences over the next five years.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 30, 2020

As a result, the carbon management sector has seen a frenzy of activity over the past couple years, ranging from research to investment to innovation. NEXTracker has more than 30 gigawatts of resilient and intelligent solar tracking systems across six continents. We’re also sponsored by NEXTracker.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Airlines can eliminate the skepticism/criticism associated with offsets of questionable merit and even more questionable verification by investing in projects right in the communities where their customers and employees live and work. Healthier soils can result in healthier crops and ultimately healthier people.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

We must have effective resilience measures in place to withstand the impacts of such events. If significant investment and a more holistic approach to flood risk management is not in place over the coming years, the consequences of future flooding will be difficult to recover from. Infrastructure resilience.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

They also looked more agile and resilient. And how do we transform this moment of crisis into a more resilient, sustainable, healthy and just food system? If we’re going to actually build an agile and resilient system going forward, then we have to invest in it.". Pull Quote.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Start-ups and innovators aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate, and biodiversity impacts invited to apply for funding. Relevant solutions in the water category could include soil additives for water retention, hyper-local weather forecasting, or probes for taking readings from the field, it said.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As more corporate sustainability teams cultivate projects to restore biodiversity and degraded landscapes or to nurture soil carbon sequestration and other nature-based climate solutions, interest in drone technologies that can weed out the best opportunities is flourishing. Let me drone on a moment about drones for agriculture or forestry.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet. These same principles of human healthcare, and these same scientific and technological advances, are starting to be applied to soil — our most important asset for securing our food supply. Soil at the center . Poornima Param….

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 11, 2022

Quantifying the long-term financial benefits of conservation practices that build farm resilience and recognizing that value in the financing offered to farmers would be transformative for farms, lenders and the environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Greater diversity gives greater resilience According to the researchers, a likely reason behind the result is that different tree species occupy different positions, or ‘niches’, within an ecosystem. This includes both the physical and environmental conditions that the species is adapted to, and how it interacts with other organisms.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2022

As part of the plan, farmers are provided with training and support as they adopt regenerative farming methods that reduce pesticide use, carbon emissions, and soil erosion, while simultaneously improving organic soil matter and biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some say the UK space sector is thriving, and it has attracted 17% of global investment in space since 2015, second only to the US, according to a recent UK Space Agency PwC report. As the UK space sector continues its rapid evolution, the UK government strategy focuses on unlocking growth and delivering resilience.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sustainable agriculture includes a variety of practices, such as using more environmentally friendly fertilizers and pesticides, conserving water, and reducing soil erosion. And sustainable farms tend to be more resilient to extreme weather events, like droughts and floods. Sustainable agriculture is not a new concept.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Think of us as a nonprofit VC: First the investor part: We invest $300,000 (for growth strategy development) or $600,000 (for project deployment) to companies across six systems – water, food and agriculture, nature-based solutions, energy, mobility, and the circular economy. Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The potatoes are grown with farming methods that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, help improve soil health, and increase local biodiversity, according to Puffin Produce, which is investing in carbon offset projects to neutralise any remaining emissions from the potatoes' production.

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Defend Our Future

MARCH 20, 2024

This makes securing equitable access to affordable, climate resilient and healthy food a personal issue for our generation. We need to defend our hard work and tell our representatives to protect investments in climate smart agriculture from the IRA, which added nearly $20 billion to four key farm bill conservation programs.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2022

Nature-based actions within and beyond corporate supply chains can be taken today to boost resilience to shocks like floods, droughts and other extreme weather, explains Urs Dieterich, from the Landscape Resilience Fund. Climate adaptation, or efforts to build climate change resilience, has now been thrust into the spotlight.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A group of 45 governments will today promise to take urgent action and mobilise increased investment to protect nature and shift to more sustainable ways of farming at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. If we are to keep the 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

JBS , the world’s second-largest food company, also shared its plan to support regenerative agriculture practices, which are said to improve soil health and biodiversity. Corporations are also working to build momentum around soil carbon markets, where carbon is trapped in the earth and plants’ roots. based environmental organization.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There is, after all, no path to net zero that doesn't involve an expansion in nature, which is essential even before considering added benefits such as improved flood resilience, better soil and air quality, and of course reduced pandemic risks. How effective are they are drawing down CO2 and boosting nature's resilience?

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Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

GFI said greater understanding of nature risk was critical to the economy, as three-quarters of UK FTSE All-Share firms are currently "highly dependant" on natural capital and resources - including water and soil with sectors such as agriculture, forestry, utilities and mining - that are at risk of economic disruption from nature degradation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Nescafé has unveiled plans to invest one billion Swiss francs - over $1bn - in scaling up regenerative agriculture methods and environmentally sustainable coffee farming worldwide over the coming decade, as part of parent company Nestlé's drive to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

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