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How Yum! Brands Is Making Its Supply Chain More Sustainable

3BL Media

If temperatures rise and extreme weather events increase, then there may be less supply of items like beef, chicken and cheese worldwide. Improving supply chain resilience helps mitigate these risks, benefiting our consumers, suppliers and franchisees.” Chief Sustainability Officer Jon Hixson. “If It’s all connected.

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Del Monte Foods Announces Commitment to Net-Zero Emissions Goal

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Aligning with SBTi gives the company a clearly defined and measurable path to not only achieve its long-term goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, but also drive near-term and consistent progress for reducing emissions across its supply chain. based, multi-generational growers. KEYWORDS: Del Monte Foods Inc.,

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Revisiting an End to the Agricultural Commodity Era 

We Mean Business Coalition

The research paints a generally optimistic picture: transforming the food system to a resilient and low-emissions future aligned with the Paris Agreement is within reach. Instead, we must integrate them as indispensable long-term partners, vital for establishing a dependable and resilient supply chain. degree pathway.

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Going Against the Grain

Chris Hall

Although recent headlines have been dominated by energy security concerns, food supply chains have also been threatened by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military aggression , with the so-called breadbasket of Europe under siege. This could subsequently weaken demand through higher costs and increased supply chain scrutiny.

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HSBC invests in world’s first ‘reef credit’ system

GreenBiz

HSBC is targeting net-zero in operations and supply chain by 2030; it also seeks to align its portfolio of investments with the Paris Agreement goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. Regenerative Agriculture. I think people were skeptical that we’d actually bring corporates in. Pollution Prevention.

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

3BL Media

In her regular column in Forbes , Tima writes that Microsoft is not only reducing carbon in its operations and supply chain and scaling investments that remove carbon, but the company is also moving beyond net zero to net negative, meaning it will remove more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits. You can’t not do it,” she says.

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Mondel?z 2021 Snacking Made Right Report: Climate Action

3BL Media

In doing so, we’re transforming how we do business across our entire supply chain – from farmer’s field to shop shelf. For the past few years we have been on a path to reduce our carbon emissions and in 2021 we took a key step forward – committing to a goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions across our full value chain by 2050.

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