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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

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Natural carbon sinks, carbon mineralization and direct-air capture are early focus areas for Stripe’s 2019 Negative Emissions Commitment , which aims to spend at least double in these areas compared with what it pays for carbon offsets. In 2016, he issued an edict to positively affect 1 billion people by 2025.

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7 Ways Natural Products B Corps Go Beyond

B the Change

B Corps Show and Share Regenerative and Inclusive Innovations at Natural Products Expo West 2023 In the natural products sector known for innovation and exploration, Certified B Corporations are showing how they go beyond the status quo and work to create a more inclusive and regenerative economy.

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Investors say agroforestry isn’t just climate friendly — it’s profitable

GreenBiz

In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the United States to interview farmers. with regenerative agriculture criteria. While agroforestry is seen as having significant potential for the carbon offset market, its variability makes it a more complicated agricultural investment.

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From Wild West to Law of the Jungle

Chris Hall

Mark Kenber, Executive Director of multi-stakeholder platform the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity initiative (VCMI), notes that Colombia incorporated VCMs into its tax and credit system following the launch of its VCM platform in 2016. . Ahead of COP27, some EMs are pushing for a fairer price on the forest carbon credits they sell.