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See how companies like Groundwork BioAg are bringing these benefits - enhanced crop yield, enhanced resilience and superior carbon sequestration - to farmers around the world. #decarbonization #agtech #climatech #gigacorn

One of the most effective advisors on #water, Will Sarni recently wrote about what has changed and what will continue to shape corporate water strategy. These are: 1) Proactive corporate #engagement and #investment in #innovative water #technology companies, including start-ups and scale-ups. 2) Recognition by corporations that water is not just a business #risk but also a business #opportunity to deliver new products and services. 3) Challenging and re-examining #collectiveaction frameworks as a key component of corporate water stewardship. 4) The rise of innovative partnerships such as “catalytic communities” to shape or replace #collectiveaction. 5) #Digital technologies, including #AI and remote sensing to #democratize data and actionable information to #stakeholders. 6) Increased corporate programs focused on #nature with the potential for integration of water strategies. Will's insights are prescient and should be regarded as the guidepost by which corporate leadership should measure action. #decarbonization #gigacorn #gigacornhunter #climatechange #wickerwaterproblems

A compelling profile of our portfolio company, Groundwork BioAg, from Haaretz. Entitled, "The Israeli Company That Uses Fungus to Tackle the #Climate and #Soil Crises," this piece walks through how Groundwork discovered a way to increase #agricultural #crop #yields by means of #mycorrhizal #fungus. And as an amazing, bonus, the #soil to which the fungus is added #sequesters more #greenhousegases than the most advanced #carbon-trapping systems on the planet. When looking at #CDR projects remember that there are only three things that matter: 1) #Scalability - how quickly and #economically can the CDR platform be deployed? 2) #Measurability - can the #sequestration be confirmed? 3) #Quality - is the removal #permanent? A link to the article is provided in the comments below. #decarbonization #gigacorn #gigacornhunter #climatechange #climatech Yossi Kofman Danny Levy Dan Grotsky Hanan Dor Inbar Morag Andrew Duff Jack Levy Jonathan Schwartz Mick Messman Brian Mixer Claus Dr. Hackmann Idan Mor Adi Vagman Gil Eiges Adam Fell

What, me worry? As reported by Carbon Brief: 1) SOUTH ASIA: Extended and severe #heatwaves that continue to grip 50% of northwest India have claimed at least 110 lives and caused 40,000 to suffer from suspected #heatstroke. Delhi recorded its highest ever minimum #temperature in a 55- year record this week, when night-time temperatures did not drop below 35.2C. 2) EAST ASIA: China's average heatwave starting date has advanced by 2.5 days per decade. 3) DEADLY PILGRIMAGE: In the Middle East, more than 1,000 hajj pilgrims have reportedly died amid scorching #heat in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Temperatures reached 51.8C in Mecca as around 1.8 million people took part in the “days-long, mostly outdoor” pilgrimage. 4) US FURNACE: Tens of millions of people in the US were under dangerous #heatwarnings this week as some cities faced record-breaking temperatures. About 80% of the country’s population are experiencing “a kind of heatwave not seen in decades”, which brought prolonged periods of temperatures above 32.2C, “under a #weather phenomenon known as a #heatdome”. 5) ‘BRUTAL’ EUROPE: After registering Europe’s highest recorded temperature of 48.8C in 2021, Sicily is again having to turn away tourists as “brutal heatwaves” have led to #crops dying and #farm animals facing slaughter. #decarbonization #gigacorn #gigacornhunter #climatechange #climate #carbon

When the pushback on, or the argument against, #innovation is that it will put a conventional market out of business, the argument quickly loses credibility for me. Innovation is #disruptive. Innovation can bring market efficiency, fill gaps in demand or supply, solve challenges such as #climatechange, #inequity or #waterquality and #abundance and, in many cases, result in more jobs and greater #prosperity. In this article in vegconomist - the vegan business magazine (I am not #vegan, btw), the author explains that Warren Davidson, the Ohio Congressperson from the 8th District recently introduced the REAL Meat Act of 2024 to prohibit using federal funds for any activity related to cultivated meat, including research, production, promotion, and advertisement. The author further explains that, as part of Congressperson Davidson's argument for this Act, that cultivated meat threatens the livelihood of traditional meat producers. This is where this Congressperson lost me - as does most everyone who uses this argument to lobby. Denying innovation the opportunity to flourish stifles growth and prosperity. While Congressperson Davidson also argues that cultivated meat poses health risks, for which there is no evidence to point, but I have wondered myself, the fact that the argument is positioned to protect the conventional economy (an economy for which we have much to be thankful and much for which it must apologize and repair) by choking the funding of innovation...means stagnant growth or shrinking of the economy is more likely. Let's continue to support innovation, growth and the pursuit of a sustainable #economy. #decarbonization #gigacorn #agriculture https://lnkd.in/g46TGxq9

At 2 trillion dollars, #cleantech investing is not a fringe investing segment. If you are still investing in the conventional economy, maybe you’re missing out… #decarbonization #climatechange #gigacorn #gigacornhunter

Has anyone visited the Pathways Alliance website. According to The Logic… “Pathways Alliance, a consortium of six of Canada’s largest oil sands companies, has wiped its website. All information about the group and its activities was removed and replaced with a brief statement. Imminent changes to the federal law that governs deceptive marketing intended to curb the practice of “greenwashing” have created “significant uncertainty for Canadian companies that want to communicate publicly about the work they are doing to improve their environmental performance, including to address climate change,” the statement said. Environmentalists say Pathways’ decision is hard proof that fossil fuel companies can’t back up their environmental claims, while energy industry representatives say the new rules complicate their efforts to market new technologies that could help them achieve net-zero.” #decarbonization #climatechange #gigacornhunter #oil #gas #energytransition

I loved reading this article in Wired Magazine. "How Much #Energy Would It Take to Pull #CarbonDioxide out of the Air?" In it, a physicist, Rhett Allain runs the math on #directaircapture and warns that this tech won't save us from the #climate catastrophe. If you follow his logic, we will need to spend over 1000 GW of power per year to make this work (removing annual and legacy emissions)...more than double the current power production capacity on #Earth today! Not alone it won't...that's for certain! It is all hands on deck time...we must fcus on the 3 R's of #decarbonization - reduce, replace and remove to be successful. https://lnkd.in/gnakfqza

The savings to the #economy from #renewableenergy (or at least non-emitting #power generating sources) is astronomical. Have a read of the latest study which indicates that by displacing fossil fuels, #wind and #solar saved the #UnitedStates $250 billion over 4 years. These cost benefits, savings really, were in the form of health care reductions. So, we save money and reduce human suffering, pain and disease by transitioning away from #fossilfuels. How many more rationale reasons do we need? https://lnkd.in/gWJ4wm-t #decarbonization #gigacorn #gigacornhunter HT John Timmer

The question of where should we start when it comes to the #energy #transition, #transformation, #decarbonization...of whatever term you wish to use...can be answered by looking at the size of the emissions by sector and subsector - and the level of difficulty and cost. This data is well understood, so let's get moving! The #climate is not as patient as the legislators and corporations who hold all the cards in the timing of the transition to a #lowcarbon economy. HT Canary Media Inc. #gigacorn #gigacornhunter