EU financial watchdog pans spending on ‘ineffective’ green farm payments
Direct payments made to farmers for taking care of the environment on farms have not led to greener...
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Methane, the greenhouse gas 86 times worse than CO2, finally targeted by MEPs
Methane is 86 times worse for global warming than carbon dioxide. Yet the greenhouse gas does not specifically...
Hogan kick starts discussions on future of EU farm subsidies
You can’t please them all. But Phil Hogan certainly tried to in his new plan for the future...
EU farm policy is failing climate and nature, new study
New research published today shows that the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is failing the environment, society and...
Glyphosate decision in deadlock
The European Commission failed to garner enough support from EU governments for renewing glyphosate‘s licence today and postponed...
European Parliament backs plan to limit carcinogen in fertilisers
Today in the European Parliament, MEPs voted to limit the amount of cadmium – a toxic carcinogen –...
Last call for glyphosate, but will MEPs vote to rein in toxic fertilisers & intensive livestock too?
MEPs on Parliament’s Environment Committee have today backed a full ban on glyphosate-based herbicides by December 2020 –...
Farming under fire for poor air quality
New evidence that Europe’s air quality is sub par has been published by the EU’s own environment agency....
What we eat is making us sick say food experts
The global food system is making us all ill. That’s the warning cry from some of the world’s...
You’ve heard of glyphosate…but there is something else lurking in our food
Pesticides and herbicides are regularly the subject of controversy, but environmentalists warn that what lurks in fertilisers is...
