Climate Solutions

Will taxing ag emissions actually work?

New Zealand and Denmark are global first-movers with proposals to tax agricultural emissions as part of national climate change efforts. While efforts to reduce emissions from agriculture are absolutely needed, there may also be unintended consequences from these policy measures when viewed from a global, systems level.

Impact is in our DNA, and we are standing up to be counted

A post about how we “do” impact at Tenacious.

Tackling enteric emissions part 4: the unlock codes for adoption

This is the fourth post in a short series I’m writing as I learn and think ‘out loud’ about viable solutions for reducing or eliminating…

Tackling enteric emissions part 3: the case for biogenic interventions

This is the third post in a short series I’m writing as I learn and think ‘out loud’ about viable solutions for reducing or eliminating…

Tackling enteric emissions part 1: the size and shape of the methane problem

Our entire food system is experiencing unprecedented pressures to reduce (if not eliminate entirely) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Tackling enteric emissions part 2: mapping the solution space

This post is the second in a short series I’m writing as I learn and think ‘out loud’ about viable solutions for reducing or eliminating enteric emissions from livestock, and whether & where a venture-scale opportunity might exist.

Omissions regarding livestock emissions

Why Australia’s best-known economist says we need to be valuing natural capital on our farms

If you were to ask Dr. Ken Henry, Australian economist and former Treasury Secretary, what his most important work from 2008 was, you’d be…

Making soil carbon a commodity: how technology can redesign carbon markets based on rewards and…

By: Matthew Pryor

Can we design a different kind of soil carbon market?

How to stop climate-positive becoming the price of entry

Weather, climate, and opportunistic vulnerability

Why you need to think twice about carbon offsets

Can an Overfishing Simulation Teach People to Fish Sustainably?

Valuing Agriculture’s Natural Capital: Insights from the AFI Roundtable

This week I had the opportunity to attend the sold-out Australian Farm Institute ‘Valuing Agriculture’s Natural Capital’ Roundtable, as…

Navigating a Sea of Sustainability Tools Doesn’t Have to Be So Hard

[This post was originally published on Sustainable Brands]

Can an Overfishing Simulation Teach People to Fish Sustainably?

[Originally published on The Food Rush.]

The biggest win-win food system opportunity that no one has solved: soil health