🌲This week in NatureTech #24

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💬 Snippets for your lift conversations

💼 Big business:

• The Forest Positive Coalition - which includes major consumer goods firms from McDonald's and Sainsbury's to IKEA and Mondelez - unveils its latest progress report for 2024  (Read more)

• Satellite firm Planet’s ‘biodiversity subscription’ aims to make tech accessible (Read more)

🏦 Finance:

• Sienna launches 'first' biodiversity-focused private debt impact fund (Read more)

• Triodos Bank announces first BNG-based private sector loan to Nature Impact (Read more)

• Ecuador has completed its second debt-for-nature swap, this time unlocking $460 million to protect and manage the forests and wetlands of its Amazon rainforest (Read more)

🌴 Tech

• $7 Bluetooth Beacons, linked to Apple's FindMy network, could revolutionise urban animal research (Read more)

📖 Research:

• ‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success stories (Read more)

• The Burmese python problem: how 20ft predators are wreaking havoc on the Everglades (Read more)

• Up to three insect species become extinct in Australia every week, report says (Read more)

• Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson released from jail in Greenland (Read more)

• How Incheon in South Korea is building an ecological hub for a nature-positive future (Read more)

📝 Policy:

• The European Parliament gave its final approval to a one-year delay of Europe's landmark deforestation law (Read more)

• Italian companies are preparing to comply with a requirement to take out natural disaster insurance from next April (Read more)

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🎣 Deals

• 🇨🇦 Cascadia Seaweed raised a $4M Series A for their seaweed-based feed & fertilizers. 

• 🇩🇪 Planet A Foods raised $30M for their cocoa-free chocolate 

• 🇬🇧 🇷🇸 Bpacks raised €1M for their  eco-friendly packaging that extends shelf life and reduces food waste

💭 Little Bytes

📊Read: The carbon footprint of a Christmas tree is lower than a block of cheese

📺️Watch: 5 reasons why we undervalue wildlife corridors

💬 Listen: Perceptions of biodiversity loss among future decision-makers in 37 countries

💼 Jobs

Start-up:

• Multiple roles, Planet A Foods, Germany (Apply)

• Multiple Roles, Ulysses, USA (Apply)

• Software Engineer, Cecil, Australia (Apply)

• Backend Engineer, Lanbanking Group, Germany (Apply)

• Sales Development Representative, Arbonics, Remote (Apply)

Corporate:

• Product Manager - Climate, Nature and Sustainability Regulations, Bloomberg, London (Apply)

• Climate, Nature and Social Risk Modelling Vice President, JP Morgan, London (Apply)

• Nature Based Solutions Specialist, Mott MacDonald, London (Apply)

• Climate Consultant (Biodiversity & Nature), Ecoact, London, (Apply)

• Nature-Based Solutions, Subject Matter Expert, Ramboll, USA, (Apply)