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Meet 5 YLAI Fellows Traveling as Youth Delegates to the Summit of the Americas

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

The theme for this summit is “Building a Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Future,” which responds to the hemisphere’s most pressing issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic, threats to democracy, the climate crisis, and a lack of equitable access to opportunities. . By Jewelle Saunders.

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Everstream, which applies big data to supply chain management, raises $50M

TechCrunch

Toward the end of March, IntegrityNext , which helps organizations audit their supply chain partners for compliance with environmental and sustainability governance (ESG) rules, landed $109 million from backers including EQT Growth. Startups selling supply chain tech continue to attract major investor attention — and dollars.

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Can LEDs ultimately replace the sun?

TechCrunch

Precise controls backed by data analysis can calibrate food quality, leading to further improvements in yields while reducing raw inputs like water. When it comes to the next stages of that long course of innovation, vertical farming would seem to have all the right properties.

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Andreessen Horowitz could make the carbon offset API Patch its latest climate bet

TechCrunch

“For example, a company might choose their sustainability legacy to be linked with forestry or mineralization projects. Patch is partnering with the best carbon removal developers and the latest negative emission technologies to build a network of low-cost, impactful projects.”

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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

TechCrunch

With that in mind, Sesamm enables businesses to track textual data from across the web — including news portals, NGO reports and social networks — and convert this into actionable insights. Supply chain Sesamm founders Pierre Rinaldi, Sylvain Forté and Florian Aubry.

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Impact Hub Scaling Green Ventures: Meet The Innovators Accelerating Climate Action

Impact Hub

In this article, we want to share two stories that highlight how the Impact Network is approaching this at a local level while aiming for global impact, in different regions around the world. The platform seeks to identify common goals and strategies towards a sustainable mobility future, which can be achieved through collective action.

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The 2020s promise better tech solutions to humanity’s biggest problems

TechCrunch

What’s required this decade is to start to encroach on the harder questions, topics like how we build a better society, make people more empowered to do deep and creative work, and how we can build a more resilient and sustainable planet for all. We also need better thinking around how to network knowledge.