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Educational Injustice: How Climate Stressors are Affecting Children’s Education
A review of climate studies has revealed how global heating and extreme weather events have affected children's education and performance in schools.
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Climate & Animal Activists Urge World Bank to Stop Financing Factory Farms
The World Bank's private sector arm is facing calls from climate and animal rights campaigners to phase out its financial support to industrial livestock farming.
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JBS Lawsuit: What New York’s Case Against the World’s Biggest Meat Company Means for the Livestock Industry
Brazilian meat giant JBS has faced plenty of lawsuits in its time – but the latest one could be the most damaging one of them all, given that it comes from a state attorney general. If the government intervention prevails, there will!-->…
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Meal Reveal: Hellmann’s Launches AI Recipe Tool to Cut Household Food Waste
Unilever-owned mayo brand Hellmann's has rolled out an AI-enabled tool that uses an ingredient scan to produce recipes that can help households use up food and reduce waste.
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Eco-Friendly Retirement: Is Your 401(k) Fuelling Climate Change?
By one tally, 401(k)-type plans are providing $46.5 billion to Big Oil right now.
By Barbara Grady
People often debate the best things individuals can do to help solve the climate crisis — ditch your combustion engine car for an!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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Some of the Most Powerful Ad & PR Execs Have Links to Highly Polluting Industries: Report
Half of the executives at the six largest advertising and public relations firms have connections with heavily polluting industries, according to a new investigation by climate media outlet DeSmog and marketing activism group Clean!-->…
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Consumers Prefer Climate-Friendly Products, But Are Misled by ‘Low-Carbon’ Meat Labels Like Tyson’s Brazen Beef
The majority of consumers would pay more for products labelled as 'climate-friendly' or 'low-carbon', but the use of these labels on beef packaging breeds misunderstanding of its true climate impact, finds a new study.
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Carbon Majors: Fossil Fuel Emissions Have Increased Since the Paris Agreement, With State-Owned Companies in the Spotlight
Emissions from the world's biggest fossil fuel producers were higher in the seven years after the Paris Agreement than in the same period before, with nation-states and state-owned companies responsible for a growing chunk of this figure.
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82% of EU Subsidies Go to Livestock Farming – Four Times More Than Plant-Based Food
A majority of the EU's farmer subsidies through the Common Agriculture Policy go to animal agriculture, which accounts for 84% of the bloc's food emissions, undermining its climate goals for 2050.
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‘A Global Tragedy’: We Waste A Billion Meals Every Day, Just as 780 Million Go Hungry Globally
Despite more than 780 million people facing hunger around the world, over a billion household meals are thrown out every day, resulting in over $1T in economic losses, reveals a new UN report.
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In An Open Letter to Biden, the US Congress is Asking for More Plant-Based Food
Highlighting the climate and health benefits of vegan diets, 55 Congressional leaders in the US have penned an open letter to president Joe Biden, urging him to increase plant-based food options across all federal facilities nationwide.
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Copenhagen Fashion Week Bans Exotic Animal Skins & Feathers – Will Others Follow?
Copenhagen Fashion Week made headlines last week after announcing it would ban exotic skins and feathers from its runways starting next year. Now, campaigners are calling on other fashion weeks to follow suit with cruelty-free policies.
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The Fossil Fuel Lobby’s Misinformation Campaign Against the EPA’s EV Rules Has Begun
The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a major oil refining group, is once again behind a push to keep cars running on oil.
By Adam M Lowenstein
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‘Simply Absurd’: 95% of Starbucks Shareholders Vote Against PETA’s Call to Drop Non-Dairy Surcharge
During Starbucks' annual shareholder meeting this month, 94.7% voted against PETA's proposal to drop the extra charge for plant-based milk in the US, with the board of directors stating that prices are dictated by country-specific market!-->…
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PrimeJack: Why Fiber Foods is Championing Dehydrated Jackfruit as A Solution for Plant-Based & Blended Meat
Ugandan women-led company Fiber Foods is using a food that often goes to waste, and turning it into an ingredient that can solve plant-based and blended meat's texture problems, servicing consumers' increased fibre needs, and supporting!-->…
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Sustainable Catering: UCL to Pilot Food Carbon Tracking App for Students
University College London (UCL) and its caterer CH&CO have partnered with Reewild, an app that allows users to track and reduce their carbon footprint from food, making it the first university to trial such an initiative for students.
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More Heat, More Inflation: Study Confirms That Climate Change is Driving Up Food Prices
Climate change and related extreme weather events will speed up global inflation and lead to higher prices for food, goods and services in the coming years, according to a new study.
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Aloha Unveils Second Plant Protein Bar with Terviva’s Climate-Resilient Ponova Oil
New York-based plant protein brand Aloha has launched the Pa'akai Bar, the second product born out of its collaboration with Californian company Terviva, which uses its edible pongamia bean oil called Ponova.
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How Can Investors Engage the Fossil Fuel Companies ‘Way Off Track’ from Paris Agreement Goals?
Despite making big climate pledges, the world's largest oil and gas companies are "way off track" from reducing any emissions, with plans to instead increase production. Here's what investors need to consider.
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Death by Fossil: Oil & Gas Emissions Could Kill 11.5 Million People by 2100
Emissions from burning the oil and gas produced by some of the largest fossil fuel companies could cause millions of deaths by the end of the century, according to new research.
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Big Oil, Big Lawsuits: The Fossil Fuel Industry is Bracing Itself for Climate Trials
A quarter of Americans now live in cities and states taking companies to court over lying to the public.
By Kate Yoder
It’s been six years since cities in California started the trend of taking Big Oil to court for deceiving the!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
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