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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. Gutierrez joined NRG from Dynegy in 2004 as an energy portfolio director. billion toward regenerative agriculture into 2025.

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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

Corporate Knights

By 2004, Smithsonian magazine reported that Niger’s Zinder region had 50 times more trees than it did in 1975. In Senegal, the government, via the Senegalese Agency for Reforestation, has partnered with local farmers practising regenerative agriculture. The re-greening must be done in a way that genuinely restores the local habitat.