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Agreena, a regenerative farming carbon market, raises $4.7M seed from Giant Ventures

TechCrunch

Plus, regenerative farming plays into the drift away from older government subsidy regimes, which are switching to focusing on the environment and CO2 emission, and away from industrial farming. Agreena is a Dutch startup that mints, verifies and sells carbon credits generated by farmers who transition to more regenerative forms of farming.

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COP16 talks on biodiversity resume in Rome. Here’s what’s at the top of the agenda

Fast Company Tech

An annual United Nations conference on biodiversity that ran out of time last year will resume its work Tuesday in Rome with money at the top of the agenda. Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s former environment minister and the COP16 president, said she’s hopeful of “a good message from Rome.”

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Greenpeace Nordic Fights to Win the World a Better Future

Saleforce Nonprofit

In 1999, the Greenpeace national offices in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway united to form one regional entity: Greenpeace Nordic. As the crisis deepens, Greenpeace Nordic continues to work tirelessly for nature and the environment to protect the planet’s future. . With strength in numbers, collaboration is key.

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Uber pledges to shift to ‘100 percent’ electric vehicles by 2030

The Verge

The mayor of Denmark capital Copenhagen went so far as to propose a ban on diesel cars in the city last year that would go into effect by the end of 2019; Copenhagen has since tempered its proposal to aim for net-zero carbon emissions and carbon neutrality by 2025. Granted, the legislation for actually mandating the bans lags far behind.)

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Directing ML toward natural hazard mitigation through collaboration

Google Research AI blog

Beth Tellman ( Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona & Chief Science Officer at Floodbase ) gave an overview of recent efforts to map inundation in the United States using ML with input from NOAA’s US National Water Model. Frederik Kratzert (Research Scientist at Google) provided an overview of the Caravan project (below).

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France’s strategy for EU startup policies: Talent and money

TechCrunch

Last year, the European Commission and Member States launched the Startup Nations Standard. During the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU, Portugal announced that it would go one step further and create the European Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA). It’s a new entity that is in charge of the Startup Nations Standard.

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5 key innovations taking e-scooters to a half-billion rides in 2021

TechCrunch

A similar trajectory is being seen across the Atlantic, as nations such as Italy , England and the Ukraine join a rapidly expanding list of countries including Germany, France, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Poland and others who have chosen to supplement their urban transportation networks with modern micromobility alternatives.

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