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With populations growing and temperatures rising, shifting to a more sustainable future in agriculture is essential.The model potato farm feels a little like Star Trek: an international, multicultural crew armed with laptops, sensors and drones boldly going where no potato farmer has gone before.A team of postgrads from Dalhousie University, for example, is working on a crop-spraying rig that uses artificial intelligence to identify bugs and weeds that can harm the crop. Instead of spraying the whole field, pattern-recognition systems spot unwanted invaders and direct nozzles to target them. It takes just 200 milliseconds to identify a beetle and spray it.https://inkl.com/a/AmywxatAXN
The G7 + Australia are in the spotlight at the Climate Conference starting Sunday 7th Nov. The principle that rich countries are responsible for historical greenhouse emissions, so should cover some of the bill for poorer
countries for climate damages - will be a major focus of the COP27 conference over two weeks in Egypt.So far:$693 Billion: Financial support for fossil
fuel companies provided by G20 countries 2021$58.4 Billion: Combined profits of five largest fossil-fuel companies, 3rd quarter
of 2022$16.8 Million: Donations made by rich
countries to cover loss and damage.Watch this space.... https://qz.com/2019457/g7-countries-are-shortchanging-the-climate-by-billions-of-dollars
Samsara Eco has just announced it has raised $54 million in a Series A round as it looks to reduce plastic pollution through its plastic-eating enzymes. The venture-backed startup uses enzyme-based technology to break down plastics into their molecular building blocks to produce new plastic products — which then can be broken down, again and again, creating what Samsara refers to as an infinite plastic recycling loop. As less than 10% of plastic waste is currently recycled, great innovative tech like Samsara Eco is sorely needed to combat this environmental crisis.Learn more:https://www.startupdaily.net/topic/funding/woolworths-backs-plastic-eating-recycling-startup-in-54-million-series-a-raise/
