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One Acre Fund: How a Mobile App Prepares Smallholder Farmers for a Successful Harvest

3BL Media

SOURCE: Cisco Systems Inc. DESCRIPTION: The Transformational Tech series highlights Cisco’s nonprofit grant recipients that use technology to help transform the lives of individuals and communities. KEYWORDS: NASDAQ:CSCO, Cisco Systems Inc., By Sue-Lynn Hinson. View original content here. . One Acre Fund.

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IPCC issues final warning about ‘rapidly closing window of opportunity’

Corporate Knights

“After 46 hours with a total of three hours of sleep…” Negotiations bogged down over emissions targets and financing to vulnerable nations, The Associated Press writes. The report by hundreds of the world’s top scientists was supposed to be approved by government delegations Friday,” the news agency says.

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Why investor Green Century has taken an active interest in fighting deforestation

GreenBiz

The discussion is part of Investors Talk Deforestation, a series of interviews with influential investors and partner organizations who supported the development of the Ceres Investor Guide to Deforestation and Climate Change. For example, the Amazon is hugely important for precipitation patterns and food systems, both locally and globally.

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6 Key Tasks at COP27

Chris Hall

The ripple effects of Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have sent food and energy prices soaring to record highs, while unprecedented climate disasters are fueling widespread and devastating disruptions with historic levels of rain, heat, drought, fires and storms impacting almost every corner of the world.

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These are Canada’s 50 fastest-growing green companies of 2023

Corporate Knights

Imagine a world where consumers have access to affordable, locally grown plant-based foods every day. A world without unnecessary disposable plastic, where cities harvest heat from the earth, and where waste from food, farms and landfills is up-cycled into clean-burning biogas. Case in point: the no. 2 company, Surrey, B.C.‘s

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

They’re building furniture out of reused chopsticks, diverting tonnes of demolition material back into new condo projects, fostering vertical farming ventures to address food insecurity, financing diverse start-ups and sowing seeds of activism for the young leaders who will follow.

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Meet the 50 fastest-growing green companies in Canada

Corporate Knights

The result: a power-packed list of companies whose products and services bring bold new ideas to the sustainability front – and raise hopes that we can win the climate war. Her company Clear Blue Technologies is bringing light and wireless service to remote regions through “smart” off-grid wind and solar systems. . Revenue growth.

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