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

Corporate Knights

As Tyson’s VP of fresh meats marketing told Progressive Grocer magazine, “We are trying to be upbeat and different, with something that speaks definitively to [millennial and Gen Z consumers].” And Tyson isn’t the only one banking on planet-friendly meat to keep consumers coming back to the butcher. Walmart Canada stocks 2.5

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Biodiversity benefits of rewilding to be “irrefutably demonstrated” by ag-tech AI partnership

Envirotec Magazine

These are allowing Make it Wild to gather irrefutable, data-driven evidence to show its rewilding in Harrogate’s Bank Woods is leading to more pollinators and a significantly greater biodiversity than conventionally farmed land.  Pollinator activity has increased by 38% since rewilding started at the site. ” Notes [1] [link]

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Top 20 Chief Sustainability Officers of Europe Announced by Futur/io

3BL Media

Helle Bank Jorgensen CEO and founder of Competent Boards, the world's first globally accessible board training program, Helle is a leading global expert on governance and sustainable business practices, with a 30-year record of turning environmental, social, and governance risks into innovative and profitable business opportunities.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Soon afterwards, a knowledge sharing effort began under the auspices of the UN Global Adaptation Network.

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Looking back on the future

Envirotec Magazine

In 2018 the World Bank and others agreed significant funding to help governments boost the resilience of communities, including things like the Green Climate Fund, intended to provide support for lower income countries. Soon afterwards, a knowledge sharing effort began under the auspices of the UN Global Adaptation Network.

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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.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

The newly anointed group sustainability chief for one of Europe’s largest banks, HSBC — a role she will assume in July — London-based Celine Herweijer is a familiar feature in the continent’s corporate climate movement. President Joe Biden announced his support for that philosophy just one week after taking office in January.