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Tag: Environment

  • European Commission adopts stringent residue limits for pesticides to protect pollinators

    02 Feb 2023

    The European Commission adopted new rules that aim to lower the Maximum Residues Levels (MRLs) of the pesticides clothianidin and thiamethoxam in food. The European Court of Justic...

    Tags: Environment, European Commission, Food Safety

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    European Court of Justice bans use of bee-toxic pesticides

    19 Jan 2023

    The European Court of Justice ruled that EU countries should no longer be allowed temporary exemptions for banned, bee-toxic neonicotinoid pesticides. These prohibition measures we...

    Tags: animal health, Environment, European Court of Justice, Pesticides

  • Open letter to the European Commission on keeping up the ambition in times of energy crisis

    05 Dec 2022

    Together with 29 other organisations and associations, Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) sent an open letter to the President of the European Commission, the Executive-Vice-President, the Co...

    Tags: Circular Economy, Energy Crisis, Environment, European Commission, Food Waste

  • Climate Change threatens food security

    01 Mar 2022

    The latest IPCC report portrays an alarming scenario for the future of our food systems. Global warming threatens food production and access to food. According to researchers, the ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Food Systems, Global warming, Soil

  • UK health professions call for climate tax on food with high environmental impacts

    05 Nov 2020

    The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) has recently published a report calling the government to impose a food carbon tax on all food producers by 2025 if they do not ta...

    Tags: carbon tax, Climate Change, Environment, food consumption, plant-based

  • Coca-Cola and Pepsi falling short on pledges over plastic – report

    27 Apr 2020

    Pepsi and Coca-Cola have not publicly committed to reducing this by 2025, or to invest in reusables or refillables as part of this reduction, Tearfund said in its analysis. Read mo...

    Tags: Environment, Food Packaging, Plastics

  • Action needed to ensure a higher level of protection from pesticides in Europe

    07 Dec 2018

    An open letter of EU coalition of concerned citizens and NGOs calls EU regulators for a higher level of protection from pesticides by fulfilling the 15 manifesto demands. Read the ...

    Tags: Environment, Food Safety, Pesticides

  • New report points at reduction of animal products to initiate a Low-Carbon Transition in the food sector

    13 Nov 2018

    Consumption of animal products such as meat and dairy has increased at an unprecedented pace since 1950s. Less animal products not only means healthier food, but also an earth-frie...

    Tags: animal welfare, Environment, Food Safety, transition

  • Rigorous Science, Safe Food, and a Healthy Environment – A Manifesto

    31 Oct 2018

    The European Union has one of the best regulations for pesticides in the world – in theory. But it is not implemented in practice. SAFE has joined the new  “Citizens for Scien...

    Tags: Environment, Food, Food Safety, Pesticides, SAFE, science

  • The pesticide-free town: Sowing the seeds of tomorrow

    17 Jul 2018

    In 2014 Mals, a small town in the north of Italy, became the first community in the world to ban pesticide use through a referendum. How did these activists triumph over the pestic...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Italy, Organic, Pesticides

  • Europol: Massive seizure of fake pesticides which could spray the size of the UK

    13 Jul 2018

    Europol’s annual Operation SILVER AXE III seized the largest-ever amount of illegal or counterfeit pesticides in Europe this week. But the fact that such massive amounts of illeg...

    Tags: Consumers, Environment, EU, Food Safety, Pesticides

  • EU Parliament backs microplastic bans to tackle plastic pollution

    11 Jul 2018

    On July 10, the European Parliament’s ENVI Committee voted to strengthen the Commission’s overall plans to cut plastic pollution, under the so-called Plastics Strategy. MEP...

    Tags: Environment, European Parliament, Food Packaging, Plastics

  • Le cannucce di plastica permangono nei secoli: 500 anni per distruggersi

    02 Jul 2018

    Secondo gli studi del centro Enea, oltre l’80% dei rifiuti che invadono i litorali italiani è rappresentato da plastiche, che finiscono poi in mare dove nel corso degli anni div...

    Tags: Environment, Food Packaging, Food Safety, Italy, Plastics

  • Tackling food waste: turning nemesis into a saviour

    29 Jun 2018

    According to Dr Milka Sokolović from the European Food Information Council (EUFIC), function of food packaging has traditionally been limited to passive protection from external ...

    Tags: Environment, Food Packaging, Food Waste

  • A worldwide shift: profiling the alternative meat market

    27 Jun 2018

    According to recent research from GlobalData, the majority of the world’s population has adopted a diet that features reduced or entirely absent meat consumption. Changing consum...

    Tags: Animals, Consumers, Environment, Healthy diet, Meat, Vegan

  • Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

    20 Jun 2018

    Avoiding meat and dairy products is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact on the planet, according to the scientists behind the most comprehensive analysis to ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, Meat, Nutrition, Vegan

  • High risk of food shortages without pesticides, says chemical giant

    18 Jun 2018

    Head of Syngenta, world’s biggest pesticide maker, says rejecting farming tech could have serious consequences within 20 years. Read the full article on The Guardian here....

    Tags: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, EU, Organic, Pesticides

  • Catena italiana di prodotti sfusi apre negozio a Parigi

    06 Jun 2018

    “Negozio Leggero”, la catena italiana di prodotti senza imballaggi, sbarca a Parigi. Il 23 giugno apre il primo negozio del franchising nella capitale francese, in zona...

    Tags: Environment, Food Packaging, France, Italy

  • Pesticide Dependency Reductions must become one of the success indicators of the Common Agricultural Policy

    05 Jun 2018

    On the 1st of June, the European Commission has published its legislative proposals and its impact assessment on CAP reform. Within the hundreds of pages of documents, pesticide us...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission, Glyphosate, Pesticides

  • European alliance calls for a ‘Common Food Policy’ to replace the CAP

    04 Jun 2018

    Following the EU Food and Farming Forum of 29-30 May 2018, a group of more than 30 European think tanks, NGOs and farming groups have united to call for a ‘Common Food Policy’ ...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU

  • 50 shades of green: Europe’s farm reforms explained

    01 Jun 2018

    Deep budget cuts and an untested plan to let national governments take the reins are causing jitters across the bloc. Read the full article on Politico here....

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission

  • Insufficient consideration for food issue in CAP

    30 May 2018

    The Commission is due to unveil its next Common Agriculture Policy on June 1st and Olivier De Schutter, former UN Special Rapporteur on the right for food and co-chair of the inter...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission, Sustainable food

  • Weedkiller products more toxic than their active ingredient, tests show

    08 May 2018

    After more than 40 years of widespread use, new scientific tests show that some popular weedkilling products, like Monsanto’s widely-used Roundup, have higher rates of toxicity t...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Plastic packaging fails to reduce food waste, study warns

    12 Apr 2018

    One of the main advantages of plastic packaging is that it keeps food fresher for longer, reducing food waste. But a new study by NGOs Friends of the Earth Europe and Zero Waste ...

    Tags: Environment, Food Packaging, Food Waste, Plastics, Recycling

  • The edible solutions to the plastic-packaging crisis

    09 Apr 2018

    A UK startup making water containers from seaweed is one of many businesses thinking of food-based answers to the global problem of plastic. Can they catch on? Read the full articl...

    Tags: Environment, Food Packaging, Plastics

  • Post-2020 CAP: simplification and investments

    26 Mar 2018

    The European Commission, steered by Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan, has taken a number of initiatives to simplify the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and help EU farmers cope...

    Tags: Agriculture, CAP, Environment, EU, European Commission, Member States

  • Il y a des particules de plastique dans 93% des échantillons de grande marque d’eau

    15 Mar 2018

    L’eau en bouteille de nombreuses grandes marques à travers le monde est contaminée par de minuscules particules de plastique dont les dangers sur la santé sont méconnus, ...

    Tags: BPA, Consumers, Environment, Food Packaging, Food Safety

  • Report says end meat and dairy subsidies, tax meat in shift to crop protein diet

    12 Mar 2018

    According to a report released at a debate held at the European Parliament on the 27th of February, the EU and the UK after Brexit should end subsidies for meat and dairy productio...

    Tags: Agriculture, Animals, CAP, Environment, Event, Meat, Vegan

  • Greenpeace: Cut out meat to meet Paris Agreement goals

    05 Mar 2018

    According to a new Greenpeace report, the world needs to cut the production and consumption of meat in half by 2050 in order to meet the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. The ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Animals, CAP, Climate Change, Environment, Meat

  • Six member states call for glyphosate alternatives, exit plan

    05 Jan 2018

    Six member states that opposed the re-authorisation glyphosate, the world’s most commonly used weedkiller, sent a letter to the European Commission last month asking the EU execu...

    Tags: Agriculture, ECHA, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, GMO, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • The Future of Food and Farming – for a flexible, fair and sustainable Common Agricultural Policy

    30 Nov 2017

    Read the full press release from the European Commission on the Future of Food and Farming here....

    Tags: Agriculture, Animals, CAP, Climate Change, Environment, European Commission, Meat, Organic

  • German vote swings EU decision on 5-year glyphosate renewal

    28 Nov 2017

    EU member states agreed on Monday (27 November) on a five-year renewal period for the controversial herbicide glyphosate, used by Monsanto in its Roundup product. The decision was ...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, GMO, Member States, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Member states approve new organic rules ahead of Parliament vote

    22 Nov 2017

    EU member states agreed on Monday (20 November) to a new set of rules for organic farming, simplifying the system and creating a level playing field for EU produce and imports. The...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, GMO, Member States, Organic, Pesticides

  • MEPs demand glyphosate phase-out, with full ban by end 2022

    24 Oct 2017

    Parliament backed a full ban on glyphosate-based herbicides by December 2022 and immediate restrictions on the use of the substance, on Tuesday.   Read the full article on Eur...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Andriukaitis: ‘Enough’ with member states hiding behind the Commission on glyphosate

    10 Oct 2017

    The member states should stop hiding behind or even pointing the finger at the European Commission regarding the re-authorisation of the world’s most commonly used weedkiller, gl...

    Tags: Agriculture, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Member States, Monsanto, Pesticides, Roundup

  • MEPs reject Commission’s endocrine disruptor definition

    09 Oct 2017

    The European Commission will have to rewrite its definition of endocrine disruptors, after MEPs shot down the executive’s proposal in a vote in Strasbourg on Wednesday (4 October...

    Tags: Agriculture, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Safety, Glyphosate, Pesticides

  • Endocrine disruptors: A guilty definition

    04 Oct 2017

    French socialist MEPs are defiant against the Commission’s “weak, superficial and incomplete” definition of endocrine disruptors, blaming it on French Ecology Minister Nicol...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Roundup

  • Endocrine disruptors: Report exposes scale of contamination as Parliament vote looms

    04 Oct 2017

    More than one-third of all fruit consumed in the EU is contaminated with residues of endocrine disrupting pesticides, according to a study published on Tuesday (3 October), a day b...

    Tags: Agriculture, Consumers, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, European Parliament, Hormone, Monsanto, Pesticides

  • EU report on weedkiller safety copied text from Monsanto study

    19 Sep 2017

    Exclusive: EU’s food safety watchdog recommended that glyphosate was safe but pages of report were identical to application from pesticide maker. Read the full article on The Gua...

    Tags: EFSA, Endocrine disruptors, Environment, Glyphosate, Monsanto, Roundup

  • GMOs: EU court says states can’t ban them unless risks are proven

    18 Sep 2017

    The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Wednesday (13 September) that member states cannot adopt emergency measures banning genetically modified organisms (GMOs) without evide...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, EU Court of Justice, GMO

  • Legislators push smallholders to the heart of smart farming talks

    04 Sep 2017

    Several EU lawmakers from the European Parliament’s agriculture committee expressed their concerns on Wednesday (30 August) about the introduction of new technologies in farmin...

    Tags: Agriculture, Environment, Precision farming

  • Parliament calls for mandatory EU-wide food waste targets by 2020

    13 Apr 2017

    EU lawmakers today (11 April) urged the European Commission to set binding EU-wide food waste reduction targets by 2020, to be met by 2025 and 2030. The European Parliament’s Com...

    Tags: Environment, European Commission, European Parliament, Food Waste

  • UNEP: Assessing the environmental impacts of consumption and production 

    12 Jul 2016

    “What do I do first?” It is a simple question, but for decision-makers trying to determine how they can make a meaningful contribution to sustainable consumption and production...

    Tags: Consumers, Environment, UNEP

  • Jeremy Rifkin: ‘Number two cause of global warming emissions? Animal husbandry’

    09 Dec 2015

    An estimated 40% of all the agricultural land in the world today is used to grow feed grains for beef production, a trend that is set to worsen with the rise of the middle class in...

    Tags: Agriculture, Animals, Environment, Meat

  • Agriculture poses immense threat to environment, German study says

    10 Apr 2015

    Conventional agriculture is causing enormous environmental damage in Germany, warns a study by the country’s Federal Environment Agency, saying a transition to organic farming an...

    Tags: Environment

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