5 empowering stories from the FuturePlanet community and network. Read on to discover insights on regenerative agriculture funding, AI adoption in finance, climate legal solution, food systems modelling, and funding industrial decarbonisation.
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Agriculture's fossil fuel challenge doesn't stop at the tractor. Funders For Regenerative Agriculture argue the real dependence is chemical: synthetic fertilisers and pesticides are fossil-fuel-derived and propped up by four firms controlling most global pesticide and seed markets, backed by $183M in 2024 US lobbying. The costs show up in polluted water, biodiversity loss, farmworker harm and debt. The good news: the field doesn't have to start from scratch, organisations are already building biological fertility systems, reducing pesticide risk, and reforming policy. What's missing is a philanthropic strategy that treats input dependency as central to systems change, not just downstream fixes. [Read more]
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance surveyed 352 financial firms and found 81% piloting AI or further, but only 14% calling it transformational. Four of the top five use cases are back office, while environmental and climate risk trails at 9.1% piloting and 3.4% deployed. The firms that do apply AI to climate risk more commonly report higher profit from their AI overall, though Cambridge does not claim one causes the other. [Read more]
The Chancery Lane Project publishes climate clauses for commercial contracts, already readable by AI tools. With its new AI-ready solution, rather than giving you a clause in isolation, tools like Claude and ChatGPT also retrieve the legal, commercial and climate context around it. Search deforestation and you get TCLP's Deforestation and Land Use Change Clause and Questionnaire, implementation guidance, definitions such as Carbon Sequestration, and related concepts including carbon sinks and offsetting. [Discover here]
Industry produced as much as 40% of the world's energy-related CO2 in 2024. Iron and steel, cement and chemicals made up 70% of that. The OECD's Climate Club Financial Toolkit 2026 Update sets out 32 ways to pay for cutting those emissions. Some change the economics, like carbon taxes and tax credits. Some take risk off the table, like guarantees and insurance. Some put money in, like concessional loans and leasing. Thirty case studies show which projects used which instrument. [Access here]
How could we feed the world's population while minimising greenhouse gas emissions and diet-related disease? This tool shows where more than 60 crops grow, what livestock eat, how food gets traded and what each country needs on its plates, and it searches for the combination that comes closest to a goal you set, inside the limits of land, water and yields. [Discover here]
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