Extreme Weather
Food firms' supply success may be hiding their biggest risk
Food companies have absorbed one supply shock after another, and that success is masking climate and nature risk that boards aren't pricing in yet.
COP31 Faces a Climate Finance Test as Emissions Plans Fall Short
COP31 arrives with weaker emissions pledges, uncertain adaptation funding and a first loss-and-damage payment far below Nepal’s reported losses.
Screening Plant Cells Before Plants Exist Could Cut Breeding Time and Cost
Amatera expects cell-stage screening to cut breeding costs at least fivefold and time at least twofold, though its lab data is still being gathered.
Salt-Tolerant Wheat Edges Toward 2027 With Fresh Seed Funding
OlsAro's €5m seed round will fund salt-tolerant wheat work ahead of a 2027 launch, with trials running from Bangladesh and India to Kenya and Pakistan.
COP31 Faces a Climate Finance Test as Emissions Plans Fall Short
COP31 arrives with weaker emissions pledges, uncertain adaptation funding and a first loss-and-damage payment far below Nepal’s reported losses.
Screening Plant Cells Before Plants Exist Could Cut Breeding Time and Cost
Amatera expects cell-stage screening to cut breeding costs at least fivefold and time at least twofold, though its lab data is still being gathered.