A Kenyan court ruled that the project did not properly consult communities and ordered credit verification organization Verra to investigate.
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S15, Ep2 | The Ethanol Kingpin of Iowa
The not so humble beginnings of a global corn empire.
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S15, Ep 1 | The Carbon Goldrush
How Iowa’s ethanol kingpin broke into the Brazilian ag scene.
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Isolated and Without Food in Brazil’s Corn Ethanol Capital
Lucas do Rio Verde in Mato Grosso, birthplace of Brazil’s first 100% corn ethanol plant, claims to be sustainable while its population suffers from pesticide contamination, high temperatures, food shortages, and extreme weather shifts exacerbated by climate change.
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Selling Seaweed: An Australian Green Startup’s Chemical Insurance Policy
Sea Forest embodied the promise of green capitalism: grow seaweed, solve climate, get rich. It appears the company was playing with a stacked deck.
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Why Is Brazil’s Climate Fund Giving Hundreds of Millions to Big Ag?
Almost $500 million has flowed from the Climate Fund to corn ethanol projects from companies with environmental violations.
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S14, Ep7 | How the Animal Ag Industry Obstructs Climate Policy
On “ag exceptionalism,” backlash to the EU’s Farm to Fork proposal, the impact of the Livestock’s Long Shadow report, and more on the animal ag industries’ concerted push to block climate policy around the world.
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S10, Ep1 | The Corporate Push to Criminalize Speech
The more successful climate protestors are, the more effort industry is putting in to criminalize them.