GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Mars claims palm oil is 'deforestation-free' after ditching hundreds of suppliers. confectionary, food and pet care giant Mars claims to have eliminated deforestation from its palm oil supply chain after shrinking the number of mills it works with from 1,500 to a few hundred, it announced this week. Cecilia Keating. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be. Now, NGOs and investors are urging consumer goods and food companies and financial institutions to devote more resources to addressing the root cause of shrinking forests, deforestation. . Heather Clancy. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:00. percent. .

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Like many other food companies, it’s dedicating resources to promoting regenerative agricultural practices among the farmers and seeking ways that farms can profit from their efforts to sequester carbon dioxide. These include practices such as planting cover crops, reducing tillage and preserving edge-of-field wilderness buffers or wetland.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

By focusing on reducing their own impacts instead of looking at things holistically, they sometimes end up losing sight of critical pieces and actually driving change. Deforestation is a critical environmental challenge associated with the food system. And like deforestation, it affects much more than the environment alone.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

billion based on exchange rates this week) over the next decade in efforts to tackle climate change and deliver on a new goal to ensure net zero emissions across its value chain by 2039. It also outlined its intention to work with other businesses and organizations to standardize emissions data collection, sharing, and communication.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

More than 1,500 companies are committed to net-zero emissions, triple the number that had made those pledges by the end of 2019. operations by the end of this year.) The effort is part of Champions 12.3, which calls for a 50 percent reduction in food loss and waste by the end of this decade. .

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

As I began identifying leaders to include on this third annual list, I was inspired by the introduction to " All We Can Save ," an essay and poem collection co-edited by marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (who you can find on this year’s list) and Katharine Wilkinson (who we recognized on the first Badass Women list in 2019). .

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