Day: 3 February 2024

PepsiCo announces agriculture accelerator projects to support farmer livelihoods, scale sustainable innovation and accelerate regenerative agriculture across the globe

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo recently announced the third year of its global agriculture program, the Positive Agriculture Outcomes (PAO) Accelerator, by backing eight new innovation projects across nine countries. PepsiCo’s continued investment aims to address some of the most urgent challenges facing agriculture today, while moving the company’s pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) agenda forward. PepsiCo’s PAO Accelerator offers local farming communities co-investment to accelerate diverse and results-driven Positive Agriculture projects, as well as funding for ag-tech start-ups that offer proven products or technology with the potential to scale. This year’s innovations will build resiliency through climate…

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ICAS releases 2022/2023 Global SRO Database and Factbook

Stuart Mitchell

The International Council for Advertising Self-Regulation (ICAS) is proud to release the sixth edition of its Global SRO Database and Factbook. Since 2017, ICAS has been collecting  basic facts and figures on existing self-regulatory systems. By bringing more transparency on how SROs operate in the different markets represented in its network, ICAS hopes to contribute to a better understanding of advertising self-regulation by the industry, regulators, and the general public. What information is included? information about the governance of SROs and their funding model; links to the main advertising standards currently in force at…

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EAC urges UK Government to act with urgency to tackle global deforestation

Stuart Mitchell

UK consumption is unsustainable, with the nation’s appetite for commodities including soy, cocoa, palm oil, beef and leather putting enormous pressure on forests – the lungs of the world – the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) warns. Forests host 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity, support the livelihoods of 1.6 billion people and provide vital ecosystem services to support local and global economies. Deforestation threatens irreplaceable biodiverse habitats and contributes 11% of global carbon emissions. The intensity of UK consumption on the world’s forests – its footprint per tonne of product…

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Chestnut Carbon to Deliver High-Quality Carbon Removal Credits through a Multi-year Offtake Agreement with Microsoft

Stuart Mitchell

Chestnut Carbon (“Chestnut”), a nature-based carbon removal developer founded by private investment firm Kimmeridge Energy Management Company, LLC  has announced that it has entered into a multi-year offtake agreement to provide Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) with high-quality, nature-based carbon removal derived entirely from a novel afforestation project based in the United States. This is the largest afforestation project certified under the Gold Standard to date, and a testament to the scalability of high-quality nature-based solutions. Through a first-of-its-kind 15-year offtake agreement for nature-based credits, Chestnut will deliver 362,000 tons of projected…

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Co Derry jobs boost announced by biofuel firm working with NASA

Stuart Mitchell

A biofuel company working with NASA has announced plans to open a £9 million Co Derry plant on a landfill site creating at least 20 new jobs next year. Renovare Fuels say the first of its kind UK and EU operation in Craigmore will create up to two million litres of sustainable fuel to replace diesel and petrol aviation fuel without the need for engine modifications, from gases trapped in the waste. The jobs are expected to be created during construction of the facility as well as several long-term engineering positions…

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