New EU legal action over post-Brexit deal changes
The BBC says UK ministers outlined a bill on Monday aimed at unilaterally changing trade, tax and governance arrangements in ...
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Suppliers into the EU will shoulder burden of proof re: seized slave-made products
The European Parliament in Strasbourg has voted to strengthen laws banning products made by forced labour from the EU market. ...
Pesticides are not delivering food security and should be phased out: UN rapporteur
The FAO Council should reconsider its agreement with pesticide lobby group CropLife International, according to the UN Rapporteur on the Right ...
Global approach to labelling needed for gene-edited crops
Governments must urgently adopt policies allowing smallholder farmers to benefit from genome-edited crops, according to scientists writing in Nature Magazine. ...
COP26: Soya giants lobbied against forest protection
Greenpeace Unearthed has found that trade groups representing some of the world’s biggest soya traders lobbied the EU to weaken ...
New EU sustainable finance rules are “a greenwashing exercise”
Environmental law organisation ClientEarth is challenging the EU's sustainable finance rules because it defines biomass, bio-based plastics and chemicals that make ...
Schroders joins WWF in calling for swift EU anti-greenwashing laws
A coalition has warned against delays to Europe’s proposed Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. Asset manager Schroders joined ShareAction, the UN-convened Principles ...
Soil degradation costs the UK £1.2 billion each year
The biggest medium to long term risk to local food production is from climate change and other environmental pressures, according ...
UK companies face new Brexit controls
Reuters says that British firms face the introduction of much-delayed post-Brexit border control checks from January 1 which will affect ...
Calls for more pressure on meatpackers
Meatpackers face insufficient market pressure to invest in better traceability or sustainability, according to a new report. The Repórter Brasil investigation, produced ...
Free, prior and informed consent required as clean energy threatens Indigenous Peoples
A new coalition of Indigenous Peoples is calling for free, prior and informed consent to be negotiated without exception as...
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