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

Corporate Knights

And Tyson isn’t the only one banking on planet-friendly meat to keep consumers coming back to the butcher. Rhetoric and marketing play a major role in the rebranding of meat as climate-friendly, explains Jason Hannan, editor of the book Meatsplaining: The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial. Walmart Canada stocks 2.5

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‘Carbon neutral’ and ‘net-zero’ claims face global greenwash crackdown

Corporate Knights

On May 11, the European Parliament voted to ban carbon-neutral claims that are based on carbon-offsetting schemes. Adria Vasil is managing editor of Corporate Knights and the bestselling author of the Ecoholic book series. As The Atlantic put it in March, “The world is finally cracking down on ‘greenwashing.’”

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Rewilding British farms is bringing back threatened species, storing carbon and growing hope

Corporate Knights

In 2000, they sold off their dairy herds and machinery to offset huge debts and contracted out their arable land. The book so inspired Burrell and Tree that they went to see Vera and the landscape he stewarded in Oostvaardersplassen, the Netherlands. based nature recovery investment company Nattergal. A government commitment of 2.4

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: Broadridge Offers SFDR Reporting Service

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Broadridge, ESG Book, Ada Fintech, Redington, Greyparrot.ai, and Viridios.ai. . Arabesque S-Ray has been rebranded as ESG Book. UK-based AI-driven carbon market intelligence firm Viridios.ai

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A Measured Approach

Chris Hall

Before the end of the year, it will publish a price for carbon emissions, which Cohen hopes will put an end to one of the many hot and increasingly political debates surrounding the net zero transition. There are lots of prices for the cost of polluting the atmosphere by emitting more CO2.

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Sustainability trends 2023

Carlos Sanchez

Goldman Sachs ‘s and Deutsche Bank’s DWS) for exaggerating claims about their products’ sustainability credentials. Besides, companies like Easyjet ditched its offsetting carbon program to focus on reducing direct emissions and avoid the critics that the program raised. Do you want to know more?

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: Impact Cubed Tools Target Greenwashing

Chris Hall

Carbon credits rating provider Sylvera has added carbon credit pricing from Xpansiv Market CBL , the spot exchange for carbon offsets, to its carbon intelligence platform. The training tool has been accredited by the London Institute of Banking and Finance.