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Centers for Sustainable Protein: Bezos Earth Fund to Invest $60M for Tastier, Cheaper & Healthier Alt-Protein
The Bezos Earth Fund has earmarked $60M to establish the Centers for Sustainable Protein, which will target tech barriers to reduce production costs, enhance taste profiles, and improve the nutritional benefits of alternative proteins.
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Climate Quitting: This New Podcast is All About Alt-Protein Careers
With more and more people leaving their jobs or turning down new ones because of their companies' climate actions (or lack of them), a new podcast focuses on how alternative protein careers can help people who are climate quitting.
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Here’s What the SEC’s New Climate Disclosure Rules Really Mean
The SEC has watered down and walked back on its proposed rules for mandatory corporate disclosures of scope 3 emissions – here's why, and what that means.
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Artificial Intelligence Likely to Use More Energy, and Spread More Climate Misinformation
That artificial intelligence (AI) can help solve the climate crisis is a misguided notion – instead, the tech will likely cause rises in energy use and fuel the rapid spread of climate misinformation, according to a new report.
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London’s Six Airports Make It the World’s Worst City for Air Pollution from Flights
With six airports belonging to London, the UK capital is the city most exposed to air pollution from aviation globally, while Dubai International is the worst airport for climate impact.
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How the Meat Industry Tapped Into Academia to Influence Climate Policy & Avoid Scrutiny
The meat industry's PR prowess is well-known, but a new study digs deep into the sector's reliance upon academics and universities to validate its pushback against research linking livestock farming to climate change, and influence!-->…
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2024 Elections: Climate Change is All Over the Ballot This Year
From Biden vs Trump to an oil well referendum in California, climate change debate is all over the ballot in federal, state and local contests.
By Marcus Baram
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The Power Plate: Why Women Should Lead Food Industry Disruption – My Ask for IWD 2024
In her OpEd for International Women's Day, Green Queen's founding editor Sonalie Figueiras has an ask: If we're going to disrupt food systems, let's make sure women are in charge.
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Oscars 2024: Which Nominees Pass the Climate Bechdel Test This Year?
There's a new Bechdel-Wallace Test in Hollywood – but this one focuses on climate change. Which Oscar-nominated movies pass the Climate Reality Check for 2024?
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How This Carbon Calculator is Helping Food Companies Better Report & Reduce GHG Emissions
New York-based sustainability research firm HowGood recently expanded its product carbon footprinting solutions to streamline corporate accounting and GHG reduction for the food industry. Its head of product, Nina DePalma, outlines the why!-->…
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Ahead of 2024 Elections, 15% of Americans Don’t Believe Climate Change is Real
Nearly 15% of Americans don't think climate change is real, with denialism highest in the central and southern US and among Republicans, according to a new study.
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Better Bite Ventures Invites APAC Food Tech Startups to Apply for Funding, with Focus on Climate-Threatened Crops
Better Bite Ventures has opened up applications for the latest funding round of its First Bite scheme, which offers early-stage investments to food tech startups in the Asia-Pacific region. The new round will focus on crops that most!-->…
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The Livestock Industry Spreads Disinformation to Shape Policies – Here’s How to Fix It
Misinformation is rampant in the food system, with attacks on alternative protein becoming louder and more frequent. Robbie Lockie, founder of the newly formed Freedom Food Alliance, talks about the organisation's research into meat and!-->…
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Los Angeles County Passes Law to Make All Departmental Food Purchases Plant-Based
Los Angeles County has passed a motion to make all departmental food purchases plant-based by default, citing the environmental and human health benefits of vegan diets.
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Op-Ed: What Do the Meat Industry, Far-Right and Major Internet Conspiracy Theories Have in Common?
With 2024 a year of major elections around the world, Caitlin Smith, senior campaigner at corporate watchdog Changing Markets Foundation, highlights the non-profit's research into alternative protein misinformation on social media, and why!-->…
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While French Ministers Fight Alternative Protein, Health & Climate Experts Call for Dietary Guidelines to Reduce Meat
As France restricts plant-based meat labels, pushes to ban cultivated meat, and encourages factory farming, nutrition experts and climate activists are urging the national dietary guidelines to recommend a reduction in meat consumption.
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Taylor Swift Flew 5,500 Miles to Watch Travis Kelce Win the Super Bowl – But This is the Problem with Carbon Removal
A "quite radical" report suggests governments and communities, not the private sector, should be leading the carbon removal industry.
By Tik Root
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Prefer Brews Up $2M in Seed Funding to Make Beanless Coffee from Surplus Bread, Soy Pulp & Spent Grain
Singaporean food tech startup Prefer, which makes beanless coffee from food industry sidestream ingredients, has raised $2M to fund a larger production facility and its Asia expansion.
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Alabama Senate Passes Bill to Ban Cultivated Meat, as Legislative Opposition Heats Up in Election Year
Alabama has become the latest US state to take legislative action against cultivated meat, with the Senate passing a bill to ban these proteins. The bill will now move to the House of Representatives, where it could become law.
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Big Ag vs Climate Change: Are Farmers Really Protesting Against the EU’s Green Reforms?
Big agriculture and far-right parties set farmers against the environment, but producers on the ground in Brussels told a different story.
By Rachel Sherrington
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Generation Climate: Should Global Warming Prevent You From Having Kids?
The authors of a new book, ‘The Conceivable Future’, discuss how people are thinking about family planning in a time of climate change.
By Daisy Simmons
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