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In August 2015 Fern revealed the true cost of a summer barbecue with its report Playing with Fire: Human misery, environmental destruction and summer BBQs. Around 70 per cent of Europe’s charcoal is imported; Playing with Fire foc...
15/09/2015
14/09/2015
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As the Pope shows the way in his Encyclical (above), a Dutch court has shown the way by ruling that the Dutch Government was not doing enough to halt climate change. The court ordered the Dutch government to cut its emissions by...
15/08/2015
Do you know the true human and environmental cost of the charcoal you’re burning on your barbecue?
10/08/2015
Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ is a beautifully written 86-page, wide-ranging call to action to save our ‘common home,’ planet Earth. The document is insightful and radical in its analysis and proposed ways forward....
01/08/2015
New research by the Oeko-Institut shows that counting Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) towards the EU’s climate target could mean the EU’s climate target is reduced from the 40 per cent pledged to around 35 per...
The European Commission is currently conducting a review of the Birds and Habitats Directives (FW 204). As much a political as a technical process, the European Commission’s actions and words are under intense scrutiny by...
15/07/2015
On 30 June 2015 the US announced that it had ended its 15-year ban on importing Brazilian beef: a decision that prompted glee among Brazilian exporters, who said they hoped to capture 10 per cent of the lucrative US market in the...
In shaping its renewable energy policy, the EU had considered wood to be a renewable energy source. However, science increasingly shows that burning wood may increase carbon emissions and that re-growth of trees does not...
An Indonesian court has upheld public access to information, vital to public participation and the implementation of, inter alia, the Indonesia-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), concluded in 2009, ratified by Presidential...
