Walmart digs into regenerative agriculture
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
The giant global retailer has a long supply chain that it needs to decarbonize.
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Can Regenerative Agriculture Deliver Sustainability Outcomes?
3BL Media
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Originally published by TriplePundit Recently, regenerative agriculture has seen a surge in interest as a promising approach to enhance sustainability and climate resilience within the agri-food system. Modern farming has led to significant loss of carbon stored in soil and ecosystem degradation. Science shows, the answer is positive.
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Why we need to wean agriculture off fossil fuels
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
The report estimates that agriculture’s supply chain is responsible for at least 15% of the world’s fossil fuel use and for driving the equivalent annual carbon emissions of the European Union and Russia combined. This is thanks to the ways we produce, transport and store food.
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How Yum! Brands Is Making Its Supply Chain More Sustainable
3BL Media
DECEMBER 14, 2023
If temperatures rise and extreme weather events increase, then there may be less supply of items like beef, chicken and cheese worldwide. Improving supply chain resilience helps mitigate these risks, benefiting our consumers, suppliers and franchisees.” Chief Sustainability Officer Jon Hixson. “If It’s all connected.
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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2021
The company touts advancing responsibility for sourcing raw ingredients, such as cobalt, within its supply chain. Rosalind Brewer is the first African-American and woman to steer the company’s Americas operations as well its global supply chain, product and store development. and globally by 2040. Company profile.
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Scope 3 Emissions Management Made Easier for Food and Beverage Companies by Savvy Suppliers
3BL Media
APRIL 18, 2024
The new Scope 3 opportunity for food and beverage companies The partnership with Indigo Ag grew out of Bunge’s realization that grain processors can drive the pace of food systems decarbonization by leveraging their pivotal role in the supply chain. “We They are buying processed ingredients.
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Change the World: By Focusing on the Human Impact of the Climate Crisis, Companies Can Turn Risks Into Opportunities
3BL Media
OCTOBER 10, 2022
For example, in 2021 Nestlé announced its ambition to foster regenerative food systems , in alignment with its commitment to addressing the two-thirds of its greenhouse gas emissions generated from agriculture. In 2021, more than 2 million farmers associated with Better Cotton produced 20% of the global cotton supply.
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GreenBiz 24: The Premier Event for Sustainable Business Leaders, Uniting Visionaries in Phoenix, Arizona
3BL Media
JANUARY 15, 2024
Join this growing community to recharge and learn what’s next in decarbonization, biodiversity, supply chains, strategic communications and much more – so you can continue to accelerate your impact and your career. The program focuses on future-oriented content with cross-cutting themes of social impact, justice and DE&I.
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Closing the climate funding gap is key to Canada's prosperity
Corporate Knights
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
The capital investment needed to decarbonize the Canadian economy was first estimated by Corporate Knights at about $150 billion per year, and the federal government and others have since corroborated that finding. This “decarbonization capex (capital expenditure) gap” is the focus of the Climate Dollars research project at Corporate Knights.
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Breweries are Working to Make Super Bowl Sunday Greener
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The waste supplied by brewery partners not only helps to produce renewable natural gas, but the byproducts of the anaerobic digestion process including high-quality bedding for farm animals and a nearly odorless liquid fertilizer for the farm help sustain the farm and support regenerative agriculture.
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Canada is sleeping on the energy transition
Corporate Knights
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Gareth Gransaull is the co-executive director of Re_Generation , Canada’s next-generation think tank working to build a regenerative economy, and a climate policy researcher with the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems at the University of Victoria.
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Field to Market Enters Agreement With USDA To Begin Work on Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Grant
3BL Media
DECEMBER 18, 2023
“By pairing innovative finance mechanisms with technical assistance, our project will support producers in adopting or expanding climate-smart practices while increasing the supply of climate-smart commodities for the supply chain.” Farmers will be able to enroll in RAF, the cost-share marketing incentive, or both.
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Vanguard Renewables Celebrates a Decade of Clean Energy Innovation
3BL Media
MARCH 13, 2024
Vanguard’s vision is to transform organic food and beverage materials into a force for good - decarbonizing the world, supporting regenerative agriculture, and powering the lives of all those that live on our planet. and support regenerative agriculture practices. RNG is a cost-competitive means of decarbonization (e.g.
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Vanguard Renewables: A Farm-Driven Circular Solution
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
The Cabot Creamery Cooperative closes this circular loop by purchasing the renewable energy that their waste creates to power the butter plant and help decarbonize their operations. This project churns up a host of benefits for the farm, the community, the cooperative, and the planet.
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ESG Today: Week in Review
ESG Today
DECEMBER 17, 2023
This week in ESG news: COP28 ends with first-ever agreement to transition away from fossil fuels; BlackRock identifies the low carbon transition as a 2024 investment “mega force”; BCG signs 15-year deal to capture carbon from atmosphere; EU lawmakers reach landmark deal on law to address human rights & environmental impact in corporate value chains; (..)
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PepsiCo Issues $1.25 Billion Green Bond to Fund Ag and Value Chain Sustainability Projects
ESG Today
JULY 21, 2022
PepsiCo stated that it has allocated over 85% of the proceeds from the prior issue, supporting projects in areas including sustainable plastics and packaging, supply chain and operations decarbonization, and water sustainability.
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Accelerating Regeneration for a Decade of Action
3BL Media
OCTOBER 7, 2022
DESCRIPTION: When Walmart set a goal to become a regenerative company in 2020, we knew that even if we did not have a clear roadmap for every issue, it was our responsibility to set a vision for the kind of future we wanted to help drive. By Jane Ewing, Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Walmart. SOURCE: Walmart.
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Mondel?z 2022 Snacking Made Right Report: Our Carbon Footprint
3BL Media
AUGUST 14, 2023
Mondelēz 2022 Snacking Made Right Report Assessing Our Carbon Footprint We take a thorough approach following the internationally recognized Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG Protocol) Standards to calculate, annually, our total carbon footprint across our end-to- end supply chain, covering Scopes 1, 2, and 3.
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Fashion Sector Gathers To Find Common Ground on Sustainability Issues
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
In another engaging discussion on driving an inclusive transition to decarbonization, Jeannie Renne-Malone, who leads the global sustainability function at VF Corporation, stressed the importance of working in partnership: “One million people from across the globe are responsible for making our products. This is their livelihoods.”.
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BIER Member Spotlight: Erich Yaeger
3BL Media
OCTOBER 27, 2022
We have supply chain, health and wellbeing, people and communities and then environment. Before coming to KDP, I worked on energy projects, specifically decarbonization projects with manufacturing and industrial plants. Another priority for us this year is regenerative agriculture. My background is in energy engineering.
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World's Leading Agri-Commodity Companies Deliver Roadmap To Reduce Emissions From Land Use Change
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
The 14 companies, that have significant influence over the agri-commodity supply chain, are ADM, Amaggi, Bunge, Cargill, COFCO International, Golden Agri-Resources, JBS, Louis Dreyfus Company, Marfrig, Musim Mas, Olam Group, Olam Food Ingredients (ofi), Viterra and Wilmar International. The Agriculture Sector Roadmap to 1.5°C
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Healthy Spaces Podcast: Season 4, Episode 11 - Spilling the Tea on Sustainability
3BL Media
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Listen to the full episode to learn from some of the dynamic women leading the charge on a comprehensive approach to net-zero through climate tech innovation, decarbonization, regenerative agriculture, grid modernization and more. So that’s just a couple of, a flavor for decarbonization elements in our supply chain. [00:13:10
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Mondel?z 2021 Snacking Made Right Report: Climate Action
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
In doing so, we’re transforming how we do business across our entire supply chain – from farmer’s field to shop shelf. For the past few years we have been on a path to reduce our carbon emissions and in 2021 we took a key step forward – committing to a goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions across our full value chain by 2050.
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Waste Is Only Waste if We Waste It: Demystifying Anaerobic Digestion
3BL Media
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Partnerships like this could be a game-changer for companies that are trying to reach their net-zero targets, by decarbonizing their energy load. This presents an opportunity to decarbonize transportation and reduce GHGs in the transportation sector.
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Closing the Loop: Rethinking Operations, the Economy To Save the Planet
3BL Media
AUGUST 3, 2023
Redirecting food out of the “cowboy” economy (landfills or incinerators) and into the “spaceman” economy transforms food waste from a terrible GHG generator to a decarbonization and regenerative-agriculture weapon. For over 100 years, Cabot Creamery has been working to sustain local dairy farms and help build strong communities.
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The Circular Economy Has a Critical Role in Driving Climate Action
3BL Media
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
DESCRIPTION: At the recent COP26 climate talks, countries and companies largely focused on tackling climate change by decarbonizing the energy sector. After all, packaging touches just about everything that passes through global supply chains. Words by Leon Kaye. SOURCE: TriplePundit.
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Guest Post: Why Biodiversity Risk is a Business Risk
ESG Today
OCTOBER 11, 2022
While all sectors have good reason to start mitigating their impact on nature, today’s investors are most concerned about those with large, global supply chains. Regardless of your sector, investors will at a minimum want to know if you’ve screened your operations and supply chain for biodiversity loss, and what risks you’ve found.
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For Patagonia, phasing out fossil fuels means “getting the oil off our backs”
We Mean Business Coalition
DECEMBER 6, 2024
But it isnt easy, and much of the work our company is known for such as building a more transparent supply chain or sourcing environmentally responsible materials can take years of research, investment and infrastructure building. Just 4% of garments in their Spring line contained virgin polyester.
Future Forward: Companies innovating and transforming to achieve net zero
We Mean Business Coalition
APRIL 4, 2023
The films, e ach of which is directed by an award-winning filmmaker, focus on Pledge signatories taking action in the face of the climate crisis to decarbonize materials, transform the way we move people and goods, and restore and protect nature. Concrete contributes 8% towards annual global carbon emissions. That’s where CarbonCure steps in.
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SBER Q4 Symposium: Sustainability Strategy Leadership & Getting Net Zero Done
Sustainable Round Table
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Dignity First leadership is grounded in cognitive and behavioral science, is Net Positive and Regenerative, and is about simplicity in an increasingly chaotic age. The second session, “Getting Net Zero Done,” focused on emerging best practices in global decarbonization.
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AllianceBernstein: Investing Lessons From Climate School, Class of 2023
3BL Media
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
They also represent the lion’s share of the future fossil fuel supply. —Dr. Luisa Palacios, Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy Legacy Energy: Challenges and Opportunities in Decarbonizing China What’s the outlook for China’s energy economy? It’s also about the environment. degree pathway. Let’s look at agriculture.
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Carbon credits won’t help companies hit their emissions reduction targets, but nature must be in every corporate climate plan
We Mean Business Coalition
MARCH 9, 2023
Companies can cut these emissions through solutions such as regenerative farming.’ ’ E very company with commodities such as beef, palm oil or soy in their supply chain must act to eliminate forest loss and land use change by 2025 at the latest. ” Alongside a decarbonization roadmap to deliver on its 1.5°C-aligned
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Corporate Climate Action: Progress at COP27
We Mean Business Coalition
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
We saw new highs of ambition within one of the hardest-to-decarbonize sectors, as Cemex, Holcim and Titan become the first cement companies to set 1.5°C-aligned In a huge step forward for net zero economies and supply chains, the U.S. C-aligned science-based targets. C temperature rise limit.
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Assessing the role of nature in the climate change debate
We Mean Business Coalition
JUNE 2, 2022
The good news is that solutions exist, today , to rapidly decarbonize our global land system and even reach net-zero land emissions as early as 2030. First and foremost, businesses must prioritize actions and investments which address land-emissions within their own value-chain. Getting to Net Zero Land Systems by 2030 .
Businesses must invest in nature to keep the 1.5°C goal in reach
We Mean Business Coalition
DECEMBER 12, 2022
While land must decarbonize a full 20 years earlier than other sectors, only 3% of international climate finance is now directed to the nature loss crisis. First, companies must cut emissions in their value chains using science-based targets. But this won’t be enough. The third principle is that if business truly wants to keep 1.5°C
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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni
GreenBiz
JUNE 29, 2020
Issues of health, the working poor and racial justice are making people uncomfortable, and with the supply chain disruption with the closing of meatpacking cesspools, Jonathan Safran Foer writes, "Our hand has been reaching for the doorknob for the last few years. COVID-19 has kicked open the door."
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Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: March 31, 2023
We Mean Business Coalition
MARCH 31, 2023
Nestlé, Cargill and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation are working together to scale the adoption of regenerative farming practices in the meat sector. A new partnership will see the companies support vital habitats for native wildlife in the US, investing a combined $15 million in the project.
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How urgent action to protect nature now will shield us from growing climate tipping points
We Mean Business Coalition
OCTOBER 18, 2022
First, all companies with supply chains dependent on sourcing from land or ocean must adapt their business models to be in line with a net-zero world. Second, these companies need to create nature-positive supply chains. We all have a role to play to make this happen. Three things must happen, urgently.
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COP27: Five things companies need to know after this year’s UN climate summit
We Mean Business Coalition
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Natasha Santos, vice president and head of global stakeholder affairs and strategic partnerships at Bayer spoke of the 200 million hectares now covered by farmers in their supply chain using regenerative practices. Companies teaming up to send demand signals is also a growing trend. C-aligned science-based targets.
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Synergies and Trade-offs at the Climate-nature Nexus
Chris Hall
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Investible projects NbS projects typically sequester carbon while simultaneously restoring or conserving land by using more regenerative agriculture or forestry techniques, or returning it to nature. Investors are keen to fund the transition to net zero, but somewhat less so to take a leap in the dark.
World Economic Forum: “Investing less than 1% of world GDP into nature-based solutions can tackle climate change and biodiversity crisis”
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 28, 2021
Private finance only accounts for 14%, including capital mobilized through sustainable agricultural and forestry supply chains, private equity investments, biodiversity offsets financed by private sectors, philanthropic capital, private finance leveraged by multilateral organizations and forest and other land use-related carbon markets.
Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: May 12, 2023
We Mean Business Coalition
MAY 12, 2023
GFANZ confirmed that the chapter will launch in June, and will support local financial institutions to decarbonize their investments and help the country to meet its net zero goal. Organic Valley is expanding its carbon insetting scheme to its full dairy supply chain in the US.
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Del Monte Foods Announces Commitment to Net-Zero Emissions Goal
3BL Media
APRIL 6, 2022
Aligning with SBTi gives the company a clearly defined and measurable path to not only achieve its long-term goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, but also drive near-term and consistent progress for reducing emissions across its supply chain. Learn more about the company’s path to decarbonization, including Scope 3 emissions.
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LEAD On a Clean Economy Brings Companies and Investors to Capitol Hill With United Call To Maximize Investment in America
3BL Media
MARCH 5, 2024
"We eagerly anticipate our participation in LEAD on a Clean Economy 2024, where we will showcase the substantial backing from the business community for these forward-thinking energy policies that not only foster significant job creation and economic growth but also accelerate essential decarbonization efforts for a climate-positive future.” "The
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