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The Brief: Soil-carbon markets, edtech startups, reduce and recycle, expanding EV charging, Goldman’s sustainability bond, pay for success
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Farmers harvest ‘soil carbon’ to meet rising corporate demand for emission offsets. Candidates in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Iowa were asked in a televised debate to cite the clearing price for bushels of corn and soybeans (Sen.
Joni Ernstmuffed her answer). In the next election, they may well be asked the going price for a ton of carbon. Farmers in Iowa are getting up to $20 a ton for carbon they sequester in their soil with cover crops, no-till and other sustainable-agriculture techniques, and can fetch additional payments for water-quality credits. That can mean payments to farmers of up to $50 an acre. More than 1,
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Women have been making progress for years, but at a glacial pace. Year after year, I see the same bleak numbers: the more or less stagnant percentages of women in senior management, on boards, in finance, in tech, in investing.
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