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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top "theme" only means people have begun talking about it. The most dependent industries: construction, agriculture and food and beverage. .

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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

While nature doesn’t come with a clearly labeled price tag, sustainability innovation understands that there is great economic value in preserving ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity, and cultures and communities around the world. Operating in most major U.S. Smog Armor.

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Waitrose debuts compostable own brand tea bags

Business Green

Tea bags are commonly disposed of in compost or food waste bins, but a lot of tea bags on the market contain plastics that do not break down. It also confirmed that the packaging on the tea bag tags has been amended to reduce ink coverage, ensuring the tea bags can break down more effectively. "The

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We need fresh thinking about the role of digital technologies in our food system

Business Green

Covid-19 has highlighted the shortcomings of our food supply chains, but technology can help, argues Green Alliance's Imogen Cripps. But as well as becoming more familiar with the dynamics of a global pandemic, I'd guess that many of us have also improved our understanding of the global food system.

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How traceability can tackle cattle-driven deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Business Green

The IDH sustainable calves program which secured deforestation free meat for Carrefour, requires every farm to register their property and follow the Forest Code, each calf is ear-tagged, and an individual record is kept of the parents, date and place of birth, and all the transfers between farms during the animal's life.

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How the climate crisis will crash the economy

GreenBiz

It placed the price tag at up to 10.5 Even if you don’t have a home, business or operations in the Golden State, your suppliers and customers likely do, not to mention the provenance of the food on your dinner plate. economy throughout this century, especially in the absence of increased adaptation efforts.” percent of GDP by 2100.

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COP27: New Global Adaptation Agenda aims to establish climate resilience goals

Business Green

The COP27 Presidency has today launched a new global plan that aims to mobilise state and non-state actors behind a shared set of climate adaptation goals for 2030 that span food and agriculture, water and nature, coasts and oceans, infrastructure, and human livelihoods.