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• , the global leader in outdoor cooking, technology, and products, debuted today its redesigned WEBER CONNECT® Smart Grilling 2.0 App .
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230502005832/en/
  The newly redesigned WEBER CONNECT Smart Grilling 2.0 App offers more than 800 recipes, with new recipes added frequently, that support many different dietary requirements – from vegetarian to pescatarian.
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  The WEBER CONNECT App, created completely in-house by Weber software engineers, is available to BBQ enthusiasts in multiple languages and supports gas, charcoal, wood pellet, and electric cooking on WEBER® and non-WEBER branded grills.
• “Cooking outside with Weber is fun, enjoyable, and relaxing, and we’ve redesigned every element in our new WEBER CONNECT Smart Grilling App to complement the exceptional experience we strive to bring with our grills,” said Nikhil Bhogal, Senior Vice President, Technology and Connected Devices at Weber.

• Pending the official publication of the law across the EU, companies will have 18 months to report their risk assessments and implement remediation strategies, or risk economic penalties, supply chain disruptions and more.
• Founded over a decade ago to address human rights and environmental concerns in the supply chain, Sourcemap was the first to pioneer supply chain-wide anti-deforestation technology, adding the solution in 2016 to its broader supply chain offerings.
• Sourcemap's Anti-Deforestation solution is already in use by more than 125 brands across food, apparel, automotive and home goods.
• "Supply chain transparency is now a business imperative, and as the leading provider of supply chain mapping, transparency and due diligence technology, Sourcemap is an essential resource to future-proof any business with a global supply chain."

• NEW YORK, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, YPO , the global leadership community of more than 34,000 chief executives in 150 countries, announced that Greg Murray, Co-Founder and CEO of KOKO Networks , is the recipient of the organization's 2023 Global Impact Award.
• The YPO Global Impact Award is YPO's highest honor to members that recognizes their impact outside of YPO, celebrating CEO impact that is both sustainable and scalable.
• Murray says, "We are honored to receive YPO's 2023 Global Impact Award.
• YPO Global Impact Award Regional Honorees:

• Indigenous cultural burning involves applying frequent, small and low-intensity or “cool” fires to clean out grasses and undergrowth.
• Our findings suggest Indigenous cultural burning in the past may have helped reduce the intensity of bushfires.

When did cultural burning start in Australia?

• Another point of view suggests cultural burning was adopted only in the last few thousand years.
• Some current cultural burning programs in Australia were only established or re-established in the second half of the 20th Century.
• Our research sought to shed light on when cultural burning in southeast Australia began, and what effect it had.

A spotlight on charcoal

• From these sediments, we examined the accumulation of charcoal – a common method used to determine the frequency and relative size of bushfires.
• It determines bushfire severity based on the chemical composition of the charcoal produced.
• Recent research by our UNSW lab showed how traditional charcoal techniques may mask evidence of human fire use (in the form of cool fires).

Our results

• This suggests human-caused climate change will continue to influence overall fire conditions in future.
• But we found a marked difference between the two time periods when looking at the severity of fire.
• Despite significant climatic change over the last 18,000 years, fire severity remained lower, when compared to the earlier period without humans.

Looking ahead

• Inevitably, thoughts return to the massive Black Summer bushfire season of 2019-2020 and how to prevent such disasters in future.
• Adopting cultural burning as part of our toolkit is likely to minimise wildfires and help keep people safe.