Environmental Journalist Georgina Gustin of Inside Climate News discusses the findings of her March 2021 article "Big Banks Make a Dangerous Bet on the World’s Growing Demand for Food" with the subtitle "While banks and asset managers are promising to divest from fossil fuels, they are expanding investments in high-carbon foods and commodities tied to deforestation." (such as animal meat, cow's milk, and palm oil). This 25-minute interview by host Carrie Freeman for In Tune to Nature radio show (March 24, 2021), explores how increasing financial investments in the ag sector are a "catastrophic blindspot" when it comes to calls for carbon divestment, and how it's difficult to have deforestation-free investment fund guarantees due to food companies not demanding more transparency from their supply chain to disclose deforestation and greenhouse emissions linked to climate change. We discuss lack of government regulations for mandatory disclosure of climate risks, and the financial incentives of investing in cheap meat to profit off of feeding a growing human population, despite environmental problems.
Some of the big banks in her article include Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Rabobank, Barclays, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs, and some of the biggest Asset Managers are Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street. There is a need for climate-friendly investment policies to be strengthened and include agricultural investments, especially those linked to deforestation. Even current funds labeled "sustainable" funds, may not account for food/meat companies unless consumers demand it.
Cover photo is of cows at a Texas feedlot, Credit: Getty Images, Daniel Acker.
In Tune to Nature is a radio program aired each Wednesday from 6:30-7pm EST on Radio Free Georgia (wrfg.org) on 89.3FM-Atlanta, hosted by Sonia Swartz, Melody Paris, and Carrie Freeman. Please support independent, non-commercial media like Radio Free Georgia. Stay in touch at www.facebook.com/intunetonature
The Industrial Ag Accountability Act’s Needed Improvements for Farmed Animals & Workers: Explained by Farming Activist Leah Garces
Bird flu outbreak’s impact on factory farmed birds and wild/free animal species: Mercy for Animals interview
Evolving together toward an animal-free food system: Pax Fauna study of appealing to American meat-eaters
The Smell of Money documentary: Pig Factory Farming & Environmental Racism in North Caroliina
Wild Souls: Eco Writer Emma Marris on Animal Ethics for Introduced Species in Nature
The Creative Lives of Animals: Dr. Carol Gigliotti on the Culture and Ethics of Fellow Animal Species
A Fish’s Perspective on Fishing: With Biologist Dr. Jonathan Balcombe
Clean Energy Future in Georgia: What would it look like and how to get there? Sierra Club GA Chapter
What’s Wrong with Wool? And What Materials are More EcoFriendly? The Shear Destruction report by the Center for Biological Diversity
GA Voter Rights & Access for November Election: Georgia Conservation Voters’ Director Brionte McCorkle
State of the World’s Birds and How to Prevent Further Species Declines: A Birdlife International Report
AgroEcological & Veganic Farming as a Path to Regenerative Food Systems with Eugene Cooke
Working in Cooperation (rather than Competition) with Nature: Interview with ”Sweet in Tooth & Claw” award-winning author
Coyote Killing Contests: Transcending urban rural differences in debates over bans, with Dr. Debra Merskin
Saving the Georgia Coast: Paul Bolster Tells a Political Success Story for Wilderness Protection
Misuse of Land for Cattle Grazing: Transitioning to Sustainable Ag to Feed a Growing Population
”Eating animals is biting us back”: News Coverage of Pandemic Prevention to Reduce Future Zoonotic Diseases
Animal Farming Whistleblower Vet Dr. Alice Brough on Pandemic Prevention and ”The End of Medicine” as we know it
Preventing Pandemics & Mistreatment of Animals via the Convention on Animal Protection, a global treaty (interview with Dr. Raj Reddy)
Bird Flu outbreak mass killing methods in industrial farms: An interview with Farm Sanctuary’s animal welfare expert
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Meaningful Life with Andrew G. Marshall
Heal, Survive & Thrive!
A Voice In The Darkness
جافکری | Jafekri
BPLUS بیپلاس پادکست فارسی خلاصه کتاب