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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

Most of the low-emissions interventions analyzed (70 percent) utilize existing know-how and technologies: reducing deforestation, better managing manure, improving feed and breeding (which can reduce methane emissions from livestock), reducing nitrogen fertilizer overuse and runoff, and adopting renewable energy and energy efficiency.

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

Grist

At a daylong summit , over a hundred guests crammed into seats to hear investment managers, policy analysts, and technology developers discuss the fledgling industry. Yet acceptance is growing among investors and policy experts as climate studies grow more grim. XPrize unveiled the list in late September, during the U.N.

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

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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.

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Investigation: How the Meat Industry is Climate-Washing its Polluting Business Model

DeSmogBlog

The non-profit GRAIN, which advocates for small-scale farming, and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a US-based sustainable farming research organisation, have however found that meat giants JBS , Tyson Foods , Danish Crown , and Vion have all, at one time or another, hugely under-reported their annual emissions.

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Can animal-based agriculture ever be truly sustainable?

Business Green

It outlines effective management plans for manure and for poultry litter, both of which can be significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, such as methane and nitrous oxide. It discusses how to make the production of row crops that are often used for animal feed - such as corn, wheat, and soy - more sustainable.