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David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC

GreenBiz

Crane was instrumental in leading NRG into renewables and other clean energy sectors and was ousted in late 2015 after its stock tanked. Last week, former NRG Energy CEO David Crane joined the frenzy. . Disclosure: Crane is a former GreenBiz editor at large, and you can read his body of work here.)

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Can we feed a growing planet while cutting agricultural emissions?

Corporate Knights

Between 1960 and 2015, the amount of food produced across the world more than tripled. While “regenerative agriculture” is a buzzword being adopted by politicians and food companies, the ideas behind them are deeply rooted in Indigenous farming methods that go back generations. You’re a killer.”. Mouths to feed.

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Cooking the books: The magical math of ‘climate-friendly’ meat

Corporate Knights

Nestlé is paying ranchers for regenerative grazing practices that get sold as carbon credits. General Mills makes a regenerative-beef protein bar that it claims offsets 80% of its greenhouse gas emissions through regenerating soil practices.” Walmart Canada stocks 2.5 The practice of branding meat as climate-friendly isn’t new.

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Strategy firm BCG pledges net-zero impact, eyes ‘carbon positive’ future

GreenBiz

One example of an organization with which BCG already works is Indigo Ag, the company behind the Terraton Initiative, an effort to draw down 1 trillion tons of atmospheric CO2 through regenerative agriculture and soil wellness initiatives. It has reduced its direct emissions by 70 percent since 2011, with a pledge to reach 90 percent by 2040.

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Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business

GreenBiz

Since 2015, companies have been able to use science to ensure their efforts to tackle climate change are sufficiently ambitious. For ecosystem integrity, specifically on working lands, the guidance recommends using regenerative agricultural practices in line with the European Commission.

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Walmart to Miss 2025, 2030 Climate Targets

ESG Today

A critical mass of potential consumers of new technologies is a necessary precondition to their development, deployment, and scaling.

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Kraft Heinz sustainability chief reflects on 'interdependence'

GreenBiz

Through 2019, it managed a 1 percent reduction against a 2015 baseline. The company had hoped to reduce consumption by 15 percent by this year, against a 2015 baseline, but it actually increased water use by 1 percent per metric ton of product produced. . Clancy: Will regenerative ag be part of that?