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  • Footprint Forum Report: City living is under threat

    CLIMATE CHANGE poses a real risk to the world’s growing urban populations, according to experts gathered at Footprint Forum.                     The sight recently of athletes running the Beijing marathon wearing gasmasks…

  • “We must phase out fossil fuel use” says IPCC

    IN A report out this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a stark warning that the use of fossil fuels must be phased out to avoid “severe, pervasive and irreversible” damage.            …

  • ‘Scrap Climate Act’ says former Environment Secretary

    IN A SPEECH to the Global Warming Policy Foundation the former Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, claimed that the government’s green polices were ‘fatally flawed’ and that scrapping the Climate Change Act could be the answer to ‘keeping the lights on’.…

  • Record numbers tune into FootprintChannel.TV to hear new waste figures

    LEADING SENIOR professionals from foodservice and hospitality businesses across the UK, including Hilton International, McDonald’s, Carillion, Coca-Cola, the House of Lords and The Greater London Authority tuned into the latest FootprintChannel.TV live broadcast to hear new figures on food waste in…

  • Richard Swannell to lead live Footprint waste debate

    Footprint Forum, one of the UK’s leading sustainability communities operating across the entire food supply chain, has today opened registration for its upcoming live debate, ‘Waste: A Moving Brief’. Register Here                  …

  • Scientists quantify number of human deaths due to antibiotic use in chicken production

    According to Dutch data 280 people are dying every year in the UK from blood infections caused by a highly antibiotic-resistant E.coli superbug, acquired from chicken.   According to a new study, poultry-associated ESBL E.coli infections in the UK result…

  • Steering farmers through the storm

    NATIONAL FARMERS UNION leader Peter Kendall has seen members endure a miserable 10 months but concerns over food security, prices and sourcing in the wake of the horse meat scandal could offer new opportunities, he tells David Burrows.    …

  • Confusion over GM-free soya availability

    DEBATE CONTINUES to rage over whether there is enough GM-free soya available for the UK’s poultry market.   Earlier this week, four leading supermarkets announced that they have removed requirements for their poultry suppliers to use only GM-free feed, largely…

  • Retailers drop anti-GM poultry feed stance

    THREE OF THE country’s more ethical supermarkets have removed requirements for their suppliers to give poultry only GM-free feed.   Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and The Coop have all announced changes to their policies given that they could no longer…

  • Green10 – a new responsible purchasing solution

    Footprint recently tied up with Green10 to explore the elixir of responsible purchasing. Watch this video to find out more.