Food & Agriculture

The vision: green rooftops, not just as gardens, but as urban agriculture hubs for herbs and edible greens, grown in renewable energy-powered greenhouses, allowing city dwellers to grow and sell food locally. Read More

This report from Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) Scotland finds that the country disposes of £1 billion (US$1.6 billion) in food every year, much of which could be avoided with better planning or storage. Read More

This report details how French wine production is a climatically sensitive endeavor -- and shows that it is at great risk from environmental change. Read More

Under pressure from New Zealand's Auckland Zoo, Cadbury has agreed to remove palm oil from its Dairy Milk chocolate bars, because of concerns about deforestation and habitat loss. Read More

While some have trouble imagining what the worst impacts of climate change will look like, the effects are apparent today and projected to get dramatically worse if nothing is done to rein in greenhouse gas emissions. For the business community, this means shipping delays, more insured losses, constrained energy supplies and a decline in some tourism-based activities. Read More

This report from KPMG reviews the business risks and economic impacts at the sector level. Read More

A report on patents related to "climate-ready" crops looks at which companies are filing the patents and how such crops, while providing food in extreme conditions, could hurt certain countries and people. Read More

A University of Maryland-led study of Amazon deforestation in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso shows that direct conversion of forest to cropland in the state totaled over 2000 sq. miles (540,000 hectares) during 2001-2004, peaking in 2003 at 23 percent of all deforestation for that year. Read More

Published July 2006, this 47-page summary report synthesizes more than 1,000 pages of research from the mainstream financial analyst community. Read More

Wal-Mart has pledged to source all of its wild-caught fresh and frozen fish for the North American market from fisheries that meet the Marine Stewardship Council's independent environmental standard for sustainable and well-managed fisheries. Read More