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The market is buzzing with carbon-reduction platforms designed to pay farmers for following established carbon-reduction protocols. Indigo Ag, the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium, Farmerâs Business Network, Bayer-Climate Corporation, Nori and Nutrien are some of the players in the sector. They all rely on data from the farmer to verify compliance.
That means more data collection from farmers. Hereâs a checklist for farmers and other users when reviewing contract terms offered by carbon-reduction platforms.
Does the platform minimize the loss of other future opportunities for the farmer that may arise from climate change?
Does the platform collect only as much data as necessary to verify compliance with the carbon-reduction protocols?
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Austria gets first fintech unicorn as BitPanda closes $170 million Series B 16 March 2021
1 Crypto-broker BitPanda has become Austria s first fintech unicorn after securing $170 million in a Series B round led by Valar Ventures, with participation from the partners of DST Global. The latest round comes just six months after a successful $52m Series A, and gives BitPanda a valuation of $1.2bn.
Since closing its Series A, Bitpanda has increased profits, with the revenue in the first two months of 2021 surpassing the total revenue in 2020, and has seen its user base grow from 1.3 to over 2 million registered users. BitPanda s desktop site and mobile app provides access to more than 50 investment assets, including crypto and precious metals.
Flywire Corporation: Flywire Launches eStore to Enable Digital Commerce Experiences for Clients
Centralized payments hub enables clients to securely capture greater share of transaction volume throughout their organizations
BOSTON, March 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Flywire Corporation (Flywire), a global payments enablement and software company, today launched Flywire eStore, an online platform that provides a seamless, secure e-commerce experience for clients and their customers. With Flywire eStore, organizations - such as higher ed institutions - can offer a marketplace of stores where end customers can securely purchase goods and services, as well as register for events. Our clients are increasingly looking to consolidate their systems and vendors in order to achieve greater operational efficiencies, said David King, Flywire CTO.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/
 Heritage Interactive Services, a subsidiary of Heritage Environmental Services (collectively, Heritage), and ClimeCo announced that they are teaming up to contribute offsets to mitigate the NCAA Division I Men s Basketball Championship carbon footprint.
The Heritage/ClimeCo team reviewed historic emissions factors across the seven various event venues, including electricity, gas, steam, and chilled water, to estimate the total carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) produced during each game and practice. Based on initial projections, required offsets are anticipated to be over 5,500 tonnes of CO2e, comparable to taking 1,188 cars off the road for one year.
Local university IUPUI s Office of Sustainability will collect actual operations data from all tournament venues during practice and game days and conduct a greenhouse gas emission assessment. The data will be used to quantify the greenhouse gas footprint, and this will determine t