Earth Day is this Saturday, April 22! Yahoo Finance is here to provide investment advice on agriculture, the food supply chain, climate change, and the ESG space.
Vertical farming
Bowery Founder and CEO Irving Fain said, "We are creating a safer supply chain, a simpler, a shorter supply chain ... we're over a hundred times more productive than a square foot of farmland outside."
Water scarcity
Water.org & WaterEquity CEO Gary White thinks that "the climate crisis, it really is a water crisis." But the Water Resilience Coalition is "committed to reaching 300 million people with access to water."
ESG investing
Callaway Climate Insights Editor and Founder David Callaway said, "we'll end up seeing the term ESG fail. We're gonna start to see real stocks and real companies adopt climate and renewable energy into their plans."
Full video transcript:
Irving Fain (00:00:05 -> 00:00:45) - This is really not just the re-imagination of farming, but it's actually the reinvention of the entire fresh food supply chain. We are creating a safer supply chain, a simpler, shorter supply chain, and we can provide much more surety of supply on top of the sustainability. So we're over a hundred times more productive than a square foot of farmland outside. And all the while we use a very small fraction of water compared to traditional agriculture. This isn't just important from a sustainability perspective. This is important from a surety of supply perspective because the existing system that we have today is already proving that it is not going to be able to stand up to the increasing variability that's coming from climate change.
Gary White (00:00:46 -> 00:01:05) - When we look at the climate crisis, it really is a water crisis. We're working a lot with the Water Resilience Coalition right now, which is made up of about 35 companies and growing, who are committed to making sure that they are good stewards of water resources and have committed to reaching 300 million people with access to water.
David Callaway (00:01:06 -> 00:01:26) - Probably we'll end up seeing the term ESG fail. We're gonna start to see real stocks and real companies adopt climate and renewable energy into their plans and climate investing, accounting for climate risk, investing in the solutions, behind what's going to help us adapt the climate change going forward.
