World Food Prize Winner!
CCongratulations to this year’s World Food Prize winner, Cynthia Rosenzweig for her work on climate change modeling and its impact on world food production. Couldn’t be more timely or more …
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Climate Week NYC 2022
Not Broadway but Climate Week, NYC! Company reps addressed strategies for taking “nature” into account in decision making to manage risks and introducing an operable, shared “nature disclosure” standard. Makes …
CPC Proprietary Futures Contract for Hemp
We’re pleased to join Lincoln University on their USDA grant, “Scaling Up the Industrial Hemp Supply Chain as Carbon Negative Feedstock for Fuel and Fiber.” We’ll be developing our CPC …
The Answers to Cleaner Food Production
Food production is estimated to account for 37% of global GHG emissions and yet, food production has taken a wallop due to global heat waves. The answers to this conundrum …
US Federal Reserve on Managing Risks from Climate Change
The US Federal Reserve has announced plans for a pilot assessment of financial institution plans and practices for managing risks from climate change. Greenwashers beware!!
Worldwide Support for Fossil Fuels
OECD/ IAEA data: Overall government support for fossil fuels in 51 countries worldwide almost doubled to 697.2 USD billion in 2021, from 362.4 USD billion in 2020.
Improved Food Safety but Bad for Yields and Food Security?
Another irony — global surge in energy prices linked to grower cutback in fertilizer applications. Good for food safety? Bad for higher yields and food security?
Reduced Emissions of 31-44% by 2030!
We’re buoyed up with Rhodium’s projections for IRA of reduced emissions of 31-44% by 2030—great drumroll for Cop27 in November. Next up — agriculture’s climate footprint. Watch for our CPC …
Growers Largely in Favor of CPC
Research Shows 90% of Farmers Won’t Join Carbon Markets Without Changes, results of Trust in Food survey. By contrast, CPC (commodity plus carbon) gets 80% positive response rate from growers.
Inflation Reduction Act Good for CPC
Cost of cover crops, fertilizer optimization and other sustainable ag practices given a big boost with passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Also, more leverage for our CPC (commodity plus …
