From veganfoodandliving.com
Jeff Bezos has pledged $60 million towards establishing Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein as part of the Bezos Earth Fund’s $1 billion commitment to food transformation.
The major investment was announced by Bezos Earth Fund Vice Chair Lauren Sánchez at the recent Aspen Ideas: Climate event.
According to Sánchez, we need to ‘invent our way out of climate change and pursue advancements in technologies to find solutions for our future’.
A press release announcing the news said: “The Centres will target major technological barriers to reducing cost, increasing quality, and boosting nutritional benefit of alternative proteins by advancing science and technology.
“To date, challenges in biomanufacturing – the production, at scale, of sustainable protein products, whether plant-based, fermented, or cultivated – are resulting in high costs and limited quality.”
It added that there are ‘also enormous opportunities’ to enhance the taste and texture of sustainable protein via ‘innovation in cell biology and engineering’.
Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein
The release added that 10 million people need to be fed with healthy, sustainable food this century while protecting our planet.
According to Sánchez: “We can do it, and it will require a ton of innovation.
“Our world is poised for transformation, for a future not constrained by compromise. Solutions to our greatest challenges often come from the quiet persistence of those willing to question, reimagine, and innovate.”
The Bezos Earth Fund aims to ‘transform the fight against climate change’ via philanthropy, committing to helping the climate and nature.
Describing this decade as ‘decisive’, the centre says it will invest $10 billion in its bid to achieve this goal to ‘protect nature and drive systems-level change, creating a just transition to a low-carbon economy’.
It added that by ‘providing funding and expertise, we partner with organizations to accelerate innovation, break down barriers to success and create a more equitable and sustainable world’.
Bezos Earth Fund
This latest announcement follows Bezos Earth Fund’s $1 billion commitment to ‘support farmers and expand food production in a sustainable manner’.
According to the organisation: “Work includes reducing methane from livestock and innovating in pasture management to help take pressure off forested land.
“The Earth Fund is also working with inventors, researchers, and entrepreneurs to improve the resilience and carbon absorption of major food crops. Learn more at the Earth Fund website.“
It says that food is ‘the second largest cause of climate change, and agriculture is the primary driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss’.
As a result, the fund believes that making a more food system ‘requires changing the way we produce and consume food’.
It concludes: “Given population and income growth, by 2050 food consumption is expected to rise by 50 per cent, while emissions from food will need to fall by 60 per cent and pressure on vital forest systems will need to be reduced.
“New ideas, technologies, and behaviours can make this possible.”
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