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Nestlé Moves Away from Carbon Offsets to Focus on Emissions Reductions Across Brands

ESG Today

Global food and beverage company Nestlé will shift away from the use of offsets to achieve carbon neutral brands, focusing instead on actual emissions reductions in its operations and value chain, according to a company spokesperson, following media reports that the company was walking away from carbon neutral pledges for some brands.

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

Corporate Knights

Nestlé is paying ranchers for regenerative grazing practices that get sold as carbon credits. General Mills makes a regenerative-beef protein bar that it claims offsets 80% of its greenhouse gas emissions through regenerating soil practices.” Walmart Canada stocks 2.5 Then scientists in the Netherlands, the U.K.

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Cargill aims to connect farmers to carbon offset buyers

Environmental News Bits

Cargill is taking advantage of its position in the supply chain between farmers and consumer food companies to invest in advancing the emerging carbon marketplace associated with regenerative agriculture. Read the full story at GreenBiz.

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Tima Bansal on How Nature-Based Solutions Are Taking Businesses Beyond Net Zero

3BL Media

Companies looking to incorporate sustainability into their businesses are finding the conventional models of environmental investing, such as ESG and carbon offset programs, no longer meet their needs. But as more companies move toward net zero, many are hitting a limit on available offsets to purchase. Beyond net zero.

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Major Food, Ag, and Clothing Companies Bring Vision of a Climate-Smart Farm Bill to Congress

3BL Media

agriculture has widespread impacts and is critical to the supply chains of companies across the economy. The Farm Bill is the right place to confront these issues and support farmers as the climate leaders we know them to be,” said Cindy Clark, senior manager of regenerative agriculture policy, Ceres. The state of U.S.

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Guest Post: Why Biodiversity Risk is a Business Risk

ESG Today

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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Creating a Business Climate Action Plan Centered in Justice

B the Change

“When you’re thinking of centering justice in your climate action plan, it’s important to understand there are many tools and many actions you can take as a business, and carbon offsets are just (some of the tools) in the toolbox to fight climate change,” Schrock said.