The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed its first pre-market consultation on a human food made from cultured animal cells, analysing the lab-made chicken developed by UPSIDE Foods.
Conservation organisation American Forests will expand its tool for assessing the social equity of urban tree coverage to include the UK, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
US-headquartered Freight Farms has raised $17.5 million to further develop its line of modular container farms and vertical farming software.
At COP27, a group of global corporations has made a collective commitment to purchase 550,000 million tonnes of sustainable fibres to be used in textiles and paper packaging.
Circle Economy, commissioned by The British Fashion Council's Institute for Positive Fashion, has developed a replicable framework to develop circular fashion economies in UK cities - based on the concept of doughnut economics.
A just energy transition was in focus at COP27, with nine organisations announcing $500 million in philanthropic investment and IBM (NYSE: IBM) committing $30 million worth of pro-bono services to five projects.
Sustainable ingredients developer Lygos has partnered with cell programming platform Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE:DNA) to optimise and scale the production of fossil fuel-free chemicals.
The Biden Administration has proposed a new rule that would require its federal contractors to publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and exposure to climate-related financial risks.
The Government of the Netherlands has provided funding for a €6.4 million project to improve water and sanitation systems in Bangladesh.
Californian non-profit organisation CTrees has launched a real-time inventory of the carbon stored in trees across the world, including those in non-forested areas. The open-access data platform is expected to make it easier to participate in credible forest carbon solutions.
