Mikkel Friis-Holm’s Chocolate War – free speech vs boycotts in Copenhagen
Mikkel Friis-Holm is as true to his moral compass as he is to chocolate making. It led to a heated ...
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“Sustainable” UK food labels will be mandatory, says leaked strategy
A leaked copy of England’s new food strategy says data transparency, to be adopted across the UK, will incentivise the ...
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 ...
OmniAction launches to tackle greenwashing, slavery, land theft, poor diets
“There needs to be action to bring food metrics together. The time has come for the food system to be ...
Experts: Mandatory labelling can drive sustainability
Mandatory egg labelling is a good example of creating “clear, consistent demand” – driving improvements across a supply chain, according ...
Beekeeping is going corporate
According to Bloomberg, honeybees, under threat in rural and agricultural areas, are finding an unlikely refuge: the big city. For ...
How the food sector protected its own interests at COP26
With the Food Research Collaboration, I studied the United Nations’ official list of registered participants to COP26 in Glasgow.
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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