The Importance of Hemp for a Net Zero Future.
In 2006, Rebekah launched Hemp Global Solutions Ltd, to rebrand industrial hemp as a major environmental tool for carbon sequestration, and created a new hemp food product called Hempower, made from shelled hempseed and oats. In 2015, she was a consultant to hemp farmers wanting to grow CBD. In 2015, she was a consultant to hemp farmers wanting to grow CBD. In 2019, Rebekah formed the British Hemp Alliance; a group of farmers, academics, NGOs, environmental organisations, businesses and individuals lobbying for progressive changes in hemp legislation, to remove the out-dated political barriers to growth that are preventing the UK hemp industry from thriving.Her work supports the movement to reignite a plant-based economy, using hemp as a carbon offset tool, and manufacturing it into biodegradable and sustainable products, such as biochar and bio-fuels, create jobs and help ignite the circular and bio-economy. Rebekah also educates on the importance of Hemp for our future survival, and to remove the barriers to growth that are stopping the UK hemp industry from flourishing in a coronavirus, post-Brexit landscape.