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THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Food prices to rise and supplies to fall as climate change bites
Britain is at risk of a worsening “climateflation” crisis amid the fallout from increasingly extreme weather that could drive up food prices by 34% by 2050. So reports The Guardian, which had the exclusive on a new report by the…
The Friday Digest: Sustainability wilts in the heat
It’s been a testing few weeks for sustainability professionals. The failure of COP29 (climate), COP16 (biodiversity) and INC-5 (plastics) to make meaningful progress in taming the assault on the planet from ‘business as usual’ politics and commerce, was enough to…
THE FRIDAY DIGEST: An egg and bacon sandwich
Last week’s Digest was about chickens. This week it’s about eggs and it’s about bacon. And holding those together? Probably another bit of bacon if M&S has anything to do with it (wait for it…). First up, Compassion in World Farming’s Eggtrack report showing that…
THE FRIDAY DIGEST: COP, cash, chickens and chaos
It is COP29 and Tuesday marked food, agriculture and water day, so “[…] perhaps it’s appropriate that the biggest deliberations feature a game of chicken”, wrote Bloomberg Green. This is of course the standoff about the expiring $100 billion annual climate finance commitment. The latest…
