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Report: Lab-grown meat investment tops $350m worldwide in 2020

Business Green

The report also highlights seafood as the next frontier for alternative proteins, amid growing concern over severely over-fished oceans and dwindling marine biodiversity. The report also highlights seafood as the next frontier for alternative proteins, amid growing concern over severely over-fished oceans and dwindling marine biodiversity.

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An apple a day keeps the carbon away: Analysis of UK diet advice reveals emissions-saving potential

Business Green

The guidance chimes with the advice of the world's climate bodies , which warn that - due to a range of factors including changes to land use, methane emissions, and resource inefficiency - it is unsustainable for people to continue eating the quantity of meat they currently do in the world's richest countries.

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Meat giant Tyson Foods launches 'sustainable protein' coalition

Business Green

Animal agriculture is responsible for around 14 per cent of global emissions , due largely to the deforestation of land cleared for raising cattle and methane emissions from cows. Richard Branson and Bill Gates have already invested in the start-up in a previous round.

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Which diet will help save our planet: climatarian, flexitarian, vegetarian or vegan?

Business Green

The best known are the completely plant-based vegan diet, the vegetarian diet, which also allows eggs and dairy, and the pescetarian diet, which also allows seafood. But there are several 'climate-friendly' diets to choose from.

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Kelp boom hinges on supply chain and carbon market investments

Business Green

I also think we'll see a ton of growth in the plant-based seafood market," she said, alluding to the plant-based crab cakes Akua is planning to launch this summer. In agriculture, kelp can be used as a feed additive for cows, reducing methane emissions, or used as a fertilizer. So kelp might remain a small addition to diets.

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The Battle to Stop Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project at Lake Maurepas Grows

DeSmogBlog

Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products plans to build a manufacturing complex near Burnside, a small town in Ascension Parish, that will transform the methane in natural gas into ammonia and blue hydrogen while using technology to capture up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions created in the process. Howarth and Mark Z.

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A Push to Expedite Permits Fueled by Disaster Capitalism Threatens to Fastrack the Climate Crisis

DeSmogBlog

He fears that his constituency, which relies heavily on the seafood industry, will be forced to move since they will no longer be able to make a living. They believe that the collapse of their industry would benefit Walmart, edging the company closer to having a monopoly on the global seafood market.