Climate change and deforestation are putting more than half the world’s wild coffee species at risk of extinction and threatening the sustainability of global coffee production, scientists have warned.
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Mars is tackling climate change through a three-pronged strategy that will target its consumers, suppliers and its own operations.
BASF has added a new product to its biopolymer line-up. Hydagen Clean is a cold processable rheology modifier, obtained from the tuber of the konjac plant, native to southwest China. The COSMOS-approved texturising biopolymer is said to be suitable for aqueous systems like gels, fluids and serums, as well as for novel formats like patches, jellies and peel-off formulations thanks to its film-forming and gelation properties. Due to its low microbial count and rapid dissolution in cold and hot water, Hydagen Clean is said to be easy to use.
There is a ‘rising chance’ that the world will exceed the key 1.5°C (2.7°F) global warming limit set by the Paris Agreement in the next five years, scientists said. The warning comes from the UK Met Office, who conducted a five-year climate assessment on behalf of the World Meteorological Organisation. World leaders agreed in 2015 to keep warming this century under 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
This is the impact report for Sustainable Food and Agriculture.
Researchers of the study from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel used computer models to predict the current and historical mass of all things on Earth dating back to 1900.
Coca-Cola, Marks & Spencer, Iceland and Innocent Drinks are just some of the major names taking to the stage as part of Packaging Innovations, Label&Print and Empack’s exclusive seminar programme.