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Are EU MEPs Ready to Boost Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategies?
When the European Commission announced the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies, exactly one year ago, we estimated that they could be potential game changers for EU nature, food and farming policies.
In the next few weeks, EU lawmakers have a chance to show their strong support for nature and sustainable agriculture, argue Sabien Leemans and […]
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Tagged agriculture, biodiversity, climate, conservation, endangered species, EU, food, sustainable development
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Stop Fake Green EU Finance Rules
WWF EU: “130 NGOs and experts are sounding the alarm on the EU’s green finance rules, the ‘Taxonomy’, and calling for them to be rooted in science. In a detailed joint statement, the groups flag and analyse ten priority areas of concern in the European Commission’s draft, which covers which sectors can be classed as […]
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Tagged biodiversity, climate, conservation, energy, forests, fossil fuel, hydro power, politicians, water framework directive
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Harvesting Moss and Top Peat Layer Destroys Open Peatlands in Finland
In Finland it is allowed to peel off the vegetation and the surface layer of peat from peatlands without an environmental permit. It is not even required to inform the authorities of this activity.
Peat industry claims that this is an “environmentally friendly” way to produce growing media for gardening and greenhouses. But in practice harvesting […]
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Tagged biodiversity, climate, growing media, peat, sphagnum, wetland
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EU Needs Human & Nature Friendly Farming
What WWF will be looking out for in the EU Biodiversity and Farm to Fork Strategies:
“On 20 May, the European Commission will publish the 2030 EU Biodiversity Strategy and the Farm to Fork Strategy. These two strategies are key components of the European Green Deal, and will set out the main features of the EU’s […]
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Tagged agriculture, biodiversity, birds, bugs, chemicals, climate, food, water framework directive, wwf
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It’s the Anthropocene Baby!
Many scientists think we are now living a new epoch, the Anthropocene. It is defined to be the Earth’s most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans.
The black & white version of this […]
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Tagged anthropocene, biodiversity, climate, conservation, endangered species, nature
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