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  • Starbucks under fire on palm oil

    ALMOST 280,000 people have signed a petition calling for coffee chain Starbucks to use more sustainable palm oil. “What’s most remarkable about Starbucks’ lack of progress on palm oil is that it’s in stark contrast to the company’s work on…

  • Cod recovery continues

    THE ICONIC European cod fishery, which collapsed in the 1980s and has been ailing ever since, has finally increased above dangerously low levels and hauled itself off the Marine Conservation Society’s Fish to Avoid list.   North Sea cod is now…

  • News review

    ANOTHER COUNTRY bans GM, Pressure on coffee companies, New soy tool, Calculating calories for menus, Fossil fuel divestment. Northern Ireland says no to GM Northern Ireland has become the latest country to ban GM crops. Stormont’s environment minister Mark Durkan…

  • Voluntary agreements won’t deliver food security

    FOOD BUSINESSES want more regulation to help them tackle issues linked to sustainability, including food security.                   In their research for a new report, published today, WWF and the Food Ethics Council…

  • Spreading the news

    NUTELLA’S UNDESERVED criticism from the French environment minister suggests that brands could do more to highlight their progress on sustainable palm oil argues David Burrows. It’s not often that the likes of Greenpeace will jump to defence of a multinational food…

  • Behind the news headlines: Sodexo’s carbon commitment

    THE GROUP’S plan to slash emissions by 1.7m tonnes is a huge commitment but one that should bring rich rewards. David Burrows investigates.   Sodexo has announced plans to cut carbon emissions 34% by 2020. Published on World Environment Day…

  • Sodexo to reduce carbon emissions by a third by 2020

    ON WORLD Environment Day Sodexo announced plans to amplify its efforts to reduce its operations’ environmental impact, as well as that of its supply chain.                       This action follows a…

  • Study finds 40% of UK imports from countries with areas of high water risk

    WWF URGES businesses to address water management issues.                       Businesses must secure their future by addressing the mounting global water crisis, experts said at the launch of WWF-UK’s report ‘From Risk…

  • The clock is ticking

    IT’S JUST over 12 months until an international climate agreement will be thrashed out in Paris. The preambles in New York last month offered nothing new other than hope.                      …

  • EU is running an ecological deficit, says new Living Planet Report

    A CONTINUOUSLY rising demand for natural resources and increasing levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere by a growing population are putting tremendous pressures on our planet’s biodiversity, and are threatening our future security, health and well-being, reveals the 2014 edition of…