GIC Group

GIC Group integrates experience and strength in research, analysis, and marketing with financial services and asset management.

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Today is World Food Safety Day, celebrating the work of Codex Alimentarius and food standards in general. With global supply chains in jeopardy, the importance of collaboration should never be underrated nor ignored.

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Today, Dr. Richard Gilmore, Chairman of the Global Food Safety Forum, presented at the Independent Dialogue in support of the UN Food Summit 2021. "The New Normal: Restoring and Strengthening Food Safety"

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As a lead speaker at the 8th Shenzhen Forum, Rick Gilmore, CEO of GIC Group, concluded with the following: “Global agriculture is a main source of carbon emissions. We hope, through our Commodity Plus Carbon initiative, to rewrite the ratios and underwrite future sustainability.”

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Watch for a soil carbon bank initiative for farmer-- https://t.co/fczleTKOdo
Plans to incentivize carbon sequestration on farm are not new to Congress or to the private sector but this time around, a major bipartisan approach could be in the offing

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What is CPC? What are the advantages? What is the methodology? How does blockchain tech work with it? What is CPC's potential for the ethanol industry and biofuels? Get answers to these questions and more...ready for you now at The Digest online. (3/3)

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Reducing Carbon Emissions in Agriculture: The Digest's 2020 Multi-Slide Guide to Commodity Plus Carbon (1/3)

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At ABLC Digital this summer, there was lots of talk about carbon. In this slide guide, GIC takes us on a learning journey about commodity plus carbon and how it monetizes carbon. (2/3)

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"Grow, nourish, sustain. Together."

This is the @FAO 's slogan for World Food Day 2020.

And yet, the world is beset by geopolitical trade wars, COVID-19, an economic slump, and climate change. Not exactly the kind of togetherness we need for food security!

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Here are a few companies who signed on to the report: Dairy Farmers of America, Environmental Defense Fund, JPMorgan Chase, Vanguard, Citigroup, & Cargill.

Now that's scary! (2/2)

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Climate Trust writes the CFTC report " could mark a turning point. Its commissioning and conclusion signal an increased awareness of the potentially ruinous financial consequences of failing to address climate change." (1/2)

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Second step--write new commodity and product futures contracts with lower carbon content for crops and ag products. Contact us for more info. (2/2)

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The bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act is an important step in converting US ag from an emitter to a carbon creditor. Ag carbon credit auctions also offer the prospect of more farm revenues. (1/2)

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Second step--write new commodity and product futures contracts with lower #carbon content for #crops and #ag products.

Contact us for more info. (2/2)

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The bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act is an important step in converting US ag from an emitter to a #carbon creditor. Ag carbon credit auctions also offers the prospect of more farm revenues. (1/2)

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GIC's CEO, Rick Gilmore, laid out a growth strategy for the industry in a presentation at the ABLC Summit: "Our new CPC contract for ethanol will help leverage its low emissions in the market and attract capital." (2/2)

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Just when we need them the most clean energy biofuel industries are taking a hit in declining exports and EPA waivers that favor fossil fuel. (1/2)

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Purdue U site (https://t.co/4gavh3yUPZ) registers a monthly decline in farm perceptions and indicators –prices, land values, and farmer assessment of year ahead.

Even the biggest farmer of them all, USDA, can't boost the basic indicators enough.

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It's also the anniversary of the signing of the Paris Agreement, but COVID–19 and the global economic standstill are stealing the show. Should they?

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#EarthDay – official recognition of the importance of the environment to the preservation of our planet for life as we know it – is Wednesday.

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Carbon emissions are way down due to economic downturn – but recovery packages are ignoring climate change consequences in likely global economic re-start.