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Dairy Giant Bel Group Partners With Big Idea Ventures To Support Plant-Based Innovation In Europe
Collaborating with Big Idea Ventures, Bel Group looks to support the former's new protein fund that is dedicated to encourage seed and early-stage investments in plant-based and cell-based innovation and companies.
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Big Idea Ventures Launch Fund To Support Rural U.S. Economies Through Alt Protein Innovation
New York and Singapore-based venture capital firm, Big Idea Ventures recently launched a fund to strengthen rural economies across the U.S. through alternative protein innovation and other agricultural technologies.
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Regenerative Agriculture: U.S. Farmer Sequesters Carbon For Cash Earning US$115,000
In a world-first, U.S. farmer Trey Hill received US$115,000 as a part of a new private market of carbon credits based on regenerative farming practices. This news comes shortly after President Joe Biden announces plans to develop new!-->…
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Climate First Bank Opens In Florida With ESG-Forward Principles & Community Values-Based Services
A new values-based financial institution, Climate First Bank (In Organisation), will soon be opening its doors in Florida this year. The bank will support the community through ESG-forward principles, offering customers all the!-->…
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Global Energy Decarbonisation Spending Tops US$500 Billion In 2020
The world spent more than US$500 billion on decarbonisation in 2020, according to new statistics. Released by BloombergNEF (BNEF), the report tracked global investment into the clean energy transition and found that decarbonisation!-->…
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ReNature Raises Seed Round To Scale Regenerative Agroforestry Model, Partners With Nestlé & Lush
Netherlands-based company reNature recently raised US$670k in a Series Seed funding to expand its existing network of farmers and corporations, to venture capitalists, who want to work towards the long-term gains of regenerative!-->…
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Elon Musk To Award US$100 M Prize For ‘Best’ Carbon Capture Tech
Tesla founder and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk recently announced that he will award a US$100 million prize for the development of technology that can most effectively capture carbon dioxide emissions.
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End Climate-Harming Financing: HSBC Faces Shareholder Vote To Slash Fossil Fuel Exposure
HSBC could soon be forced to reduce its exposure to fossil fuels next year, after its key investors tabled a shareholder vote urging the bank to end its reliance on climate-harming financing. The bank is one of the biggest financiers of!-->…
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Top 10 Sustainability Trends: Our 2021 Eco Wellness Predictions
It's that time of the year again, a new dawn, or in 2021's case, a better dawn, because hey, what can be worse than 2020? New year = new set of Green Queen trend predictions (proud to share that we still haven't been wrong yet). This year,!-->…
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Best News Of The Year: The Top 10 Sustainability Headlines Of 2020
It’s clear that the Covid-19 pandemic has shifted the global focus towards sustainability. Realising the link between human and planetary health and the urgent need to prevent the rise of future zoonotic pandemics, the world has renewed!-->…
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As Sustainable Investing Takes Off, China’s Poor ESG Ratings Are A Major Problem
With more investors embracing a sustainable ESG-based strategy, a trend that has received a major boost amidst the coronavirus pandemic, China is losing its allure despite being an enormous and fast-growing emerging market. Ranking bottom!-->…
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HKEX Launches Green Exchange ‘STAGE’ To Support Sustainable Finance Push
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has launched its new investment platform dedicated to sustainable finance amidst rising demand from Asian investors. Called the Sustainable and Green Exchange (STAGE), the new platform serves!-->…
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Latam’s Cabify Introduces Carbon Footprint & Offset Blockchain Tracking For Rides In Real-Time
Latam ridesharing tech firm Cabify has ramped up its climate commitments, this time introducing a new blockchain-powered carbon offsetting solution to its app to ensure full traceability on its carbon-neutral pledge. Users will now be able!-->…
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Meatless, Alcohol-Free & Flight-Shaming ‘Zillennials’ Will Take Over The World, Report Says
Gen Zs or “Zillennials” are on track to overtake the famous millennial cohort and are set to transform the way business and investing is done with their flight-shaming, plant-based and zero-alcohol habits. Analysts in a new Bank of America!-->…
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Canada’s The Very Good Food Company Goes Public In The U.S., Marking 2nd Plant-Based IPO
The Very Good Food Company, the parent group of Canadian plant-based meat brand The Very Good Butchers, has been approved for trading in the U.S. after its first IPO on the Canadian Stock Exchange (CSE) earlier in June this year. It will!-->…
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Natural Order Acquisition Corp. Raises US$230M IPO To Fund Plant-Based Buyouts
Natural Order Acquisition Corp., a new blank check company targeting plant-based foods, has raised US$230 million in its initial public offering, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option. The company intends!-->…
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Clarity AI Secures US$15M: Fintech Platform Tracks Investments’ Social & Sustainability Impact
Clarity AI, a fintech company that has developed a platform that empowers investors to manage the impact of their portfolio, has raised US$15 million in its latest funding round. The financing will be used to fuel the expansion of its!-->…
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Climate Finance Increasing Debt In Poorer Nations, Oxfam Report Finds
The real value of support provided by developed countries to help poorer nations respond to the climate crisis is far lower than what has been reported, according to a new Oxfam report. It finds that the real figure could be as low as a!-->…
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Global Firms Managing Assets Worth US$16 Trillion Agree To Scale-Up Sustainable Investment
After a meeting with United Nations secretary-general António Guterres, an alliance of the world’s biggest firms have agreed to deliver strategies to scale-up sustainable investments. With countries around the world still reeling from the!-->…
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New Plant-Based Food Company Files For IPO To Raise US$250M & Top Beyond Meat Record
Natural Order Acquisition Corp., a blank check company founded this year and focused on sustainable plant-based food products, has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise US$250 million in an initial public!-->…
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World’s Biggest Investors Tell 161 Corporate Polluters To Clean Up Their Act
Climate Action 100+, an initiative backed by over 500 of the world’s biggest institutional investors that together manage more than US$47 trillion in assets, has written to 161 big-emitting companies demanding them to set climate targets.!-->…
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