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Consumers care about sustainability—and back it up with their wallets
February 6, 2023 | Article A joint study from McKinsey and NielsenIQ examines sales growth for products that claim to be environmentally...
Serena Valentino
Feb 113 min read
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4 Ways CFOs Can Use Sustainability Data to Attract Investors by taking steps to shore up sustainability data, finance leaders may gain an early foothold with potential backers
—  Michael Bondar Published on Dec 20, 2024, 3:00 PM WSJPRO Rising demand for sustainability data from investors has created an...
Serena Valentino
Jan 25 min read
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America’s Farm Recession Is Here. One Early Response Is Sending Billions to Farmers.
By Patrick Thomas Dec. 21, 2024 8:00 am ET The Wall Street Journal A cornfield and storage bins are seen at a farm near Carrington, N.D. ...
Serena Valentino
Jan 25 min read
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The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago.
By Hiroko Tabuchi Updated Jan. 2, 2025, 9:01 a.m. ET The New York Times The agency obtained research from 3M in 2003 revealing that...
Serena Valentino
Jan 25 min read
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Carbon Credit Companies Vie to Outlast a Two-Year Slump
By Henry Kronk | Dec. 18, 2024 9:05 am ET | WSJ Pro A patch of regenerating woodlands in Binga, Zimbabwe, part of the Kariba Redd+...
Serena Valentino
Dec 19, 20245 min read
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Sorry, but This Is the Future of Food
By Michael Grunwald | Dec. 13, 2024 | New York Times Illustration by Sam Whitney/The New York Times; source photographs by wwing,...
Serena Valentino
Dec 17, 20247 min read
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Sustainability Leaders Describe How Decarbonizing Drives Revenues, Savings
by Aaron Dalton, freelance writer, Executive Perspectives in the Wall Street Journal  Published on  Dec 3, 2024, 3:00 PM Executives at a...
Serena Valentino
Dec 11, 20246 min read
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Disclosure Isn’t Just About Saving the Planet, It’s a Business Necessity Now, Says CDP Chief
By Yusuf Khan | Nov. 18, 2024 7:01 am ET Sherry Madera, in Baku for COP29, says more companies are reporting on climate than ever,...
Serena Valentino
Nov 21, 20245 min read
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U.N. Negotiators Take Key Step to Global Carbon Deal. Nine years after the Paris Agreement, countries are finally agreeing on international trading rules for credits.
By Yusuf Khan | Nov. 12, 2024 11:03 am ET | WSJ Pro BAKU, Azerbaijan—Global carbon markets gained a win Monday, after negotiators at...
Serena Valentino
Nov 20, 20243 min read
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Nov 20, 20240 min read
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The World Is Looking for a Financial Model to Solve Climate Change. It Doesn’t Have to Look Too Far.
By Yusuf Khan | Nov. 15, 2024 12:04 pm ET Â Â | | WSJ Pro Delegates at COP29 see the private sector as key to finding $2.4 trillion...
Serena Valentino
Nov 17, 20244 min read
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Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage
nature Open access Published: 24 May 2023 Abstract Soils store more carbon than other terrestrial ecosystems 1 , 2 . How soil organic...
Serena Valentino
Oct 21, 20244 min read
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Microbes key to sequestering carbon in soil
By Krishna Ramanujan, Cornell Chronicle  | May 24, 2023 Microbes are by far the most important factor in determining how much carbon...
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Oct 21, 20243 min read
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General Mills Stands for People and Planet in 2024 Global Responsibility Report
Apr 18, 2024 News Release Company shares decarbonization strategies in first Climate Transition Action Plan, sets no deforestation...
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Oct 1, 20245 min read
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Leading Economists and Policymakers Push for Higher Integrity in Carbon Markets
By H. Claire Brown and Yusuf Khan | Sept. 25, 2024 5:30 am ET | WSJ Pro Mark Carney, Michael Bloomberg and other economists and...
Serena Valentino
Sep 26, 20245 min read
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The Whole Truth About Whole Grains
March 20, 2024 By Chris Mitchell , Malte Clausen , Ema Tanovic , and Zoë Karl-Waithaka Key Takeaways World-wide consumption of...
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Sep 23, 20246 min read
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Why ‘chaos wheat’ may be the future of bread
Column by Michael J. Coren  | September 17, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT It’s time to look beyond all-purpose flour. Farms were once a riot of...
Serena Valentino
Sep 23, 20247 min read
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You Want Lower Emissions? Try Attaching it to Pay, Says Mars Sustainability Chief
By Perry Cleveland-Peck Sept. 13, 2024 6:03 am ET | WSJ Pro The family-owned food giant’s CSO Barry Parkin said the company is on target...
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Sep 17, 20246 min read
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Sustainability Is Falling on the CEO To-Do List. Customers Still See It as a Priority.
By Yusuf Khan | Sept. 9, 2024 12:01 am ET | WSJ Pro AI, growth, inflation and geopolitics were all more important to CEOs in a recent...
Serena Valentino
Sep 12, 20243 min read
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Can Dirt Clean the Climate?
By Somini Sengupta | Photographs and Video by Matthew Abbott Somini Sengupta traveled to farms around New South Wales, Australia, to...
Serena Valentino
Aug 19, 20245 min read
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