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Mapped: How Big Ag, Pharma, Pesticides and Other Industries Hope to Sway the UN Biodiversity Talks

DeSmogBlog

Joining them in Colombia are delegates and observers from powerful industry groups, which represent the companies whose operations are actively depleting the natural world. They range from the pesticide and biotechnology trade group CropLife International , to the commodities giant Bunge.

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Green City Solutions fights air pollution with IoT, biotech and moss

Green Tech Challenge

In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment. With the increasing growth in mass production, industries expanding to low cost production sites in Asia, fuelling on coal and the pollution from transport, the problem continues to grow.

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How regulations can tear down the barriers faced by the cultivated meat industry

Business Green

The industry is attracting investment as new technologies for cultivating meat are emerging and start ups edge towards commercialisation. However, the report warns the industry is still a long way from being commercially viable, as well as being acceptable to consumers.

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Eco Friendly Retail Packaging Complete Guide (Sustainable Packaging Innovations)

Green Business Bureau

Polluting packaging agents build up to foul habitats and ecological systems, creating unstable environments which threaten human well-being and security. E.g. a recent study by Plymouth University estimated that a staggering 700 marine species are threatened with extinction due to the build-up of plastic trash.

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? Green linings & lessons from breakthroughs #159

Climate Tech VC

A breakthrough in next-generation geothermal, industry approval for emissions-free cement, and the start of construction on a first commercial sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant illustrate progress and put the focus on execution moving forward.