This week: Jessie Cato from the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre talks about the latest tracker following the forced labour risks in the supply chains of the minerals necessary to transition global energy supply to renewables. Lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel are among the elements required for solar panels, batteries and wind turbines, and have significant supply chain human rights challenges.
Plus: Chatham House and UNEP report says food supply is responsible for 86% extinction risks; WWF’s plan for dairy to get to net zero; PepsiCo joint venture with Beyond Meat; UK renewables supply beat fossil fuels in 2020; and GM to be zero tailpipe emissions by 2035, in the news digest.
Host: Ian Welsh
Real rural resilience: How to connect smallholder farmers directly to global markets
Weekly podcast: How the right data can help producers access carbon credits
Shining a spotlight: food sector still lacks progress on the ground
Beefing up approaches to cattle methane emissions
Weekly podcast – Route to net zero: why vehicle electrification is the vital spark
Palm oil: it’s all about viable producer communities
Weekly podcast – Deforestation risks: much more than just putting out fires
Chemical complexity: Why we need to move beyond organic versus synthetic
Weekly podcast: Why brands struggle to translate global goals into local progress
Fifty shades of green: the unintended consequences of planting trees
What does the roadmap to regenerative apparel look like?
Weekly podcast: How Cargill cuts methane from cattle supply chains
Why multi-cropping is essential to boost smallholder incomes
Greenpeace on certification’s failings, and how they should be fixed
Weekly podcast: Is smallholder farming really a broken model?
What's the solution to the profit pursuit problem?
Weekly podcast: What will future materials be made from?
Organic cotton's sector-changing potential
Weekly podcast: GIZ on why producer communities need a stronger voice
How cotton learns from other commodity supply chains
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