Climate Crisis
Corporate Europe Observatory: CAP vs Farm to Fork
Will we pay billions to destroy, or to support biodiversity, climate, and farmers? Read here
Food Production
Environment
DeSmogUK: Rachel Sherrington – These Agribusiness Groups With Ties to Climate Denial are Trying to Influence the US-UK Trade Deal
Some US lobby groups are becoming increasingly influential in trade talks and other international negotiations. They pose a risk to environmental and food safety rules and a threat to the outcome of a US-UK trade […]
Aviation
Chaitanya Kumar – Use Covid Recovery to get to Net Zero: the Citizens Assembly’s Verdict
Do democratic institutions like the British Citizens Assembly exist in the EU? Chaitanya Kumar is Head of Environment and Green Transition at the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from the website of the New Economics Foundation […]
Environment
rfi: France moves to ease pesticide ban to save sugar beet farmers
This is typical for the EU. First a law forbidding neonicotinoids, then providing openings to by-pass the law and use this insecticide. Ten other EU member states have also used the exemption.Thus the EU can […]
Corruption
Murray Scown, Kimberly Nicholas, Mark Brady – EU subsidies benefit big farms while underfunding greener and poorer plots – new research
Jaromir Chalabala/Shutterstock Murray Scown, Utrecht University; Kimberly Nicholas, Lund University, and Mark Brady, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences The Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP, is the European Union’s largest budget item. For the €60 billion […]
Aviation
Corporate Europe Observatory – Corona Lobby Watch
Who would have expected that: Opportunistic lobbyists abuse the EU’s unprecedented health crisis. Lobbyists for many industries are opportunistically repackaging old demands, or developing new ones, and using the Corona Crisis to justify them, even […]
Aviation
Sven Giegold – Lobbyists are Trying to Water Down a Sustainable Way out of the Corona Crisis
Sven Giegold warns that the Coronavirus pandemic has been used as a pretext by powerful lobbies to weaken and delay a European Green Deal. Sven Giegold is a German Green MEP Cross-posted from Source Picture […]
Climate Crisis
Manifesto for a More Sustainable and Fairer Netherlands after Corona
We can make the Netherlands radically more sustainable and fair: five proposals for the Netherlands after Corona, signed by 170 academics. COVID-19 shakes the world to its foundations. The corona pandemic has already cost and […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine: After this Crisis, our Lives and Economy can be Better – If We have Principles
This is the direction we should be thinking in. What comes after? If we do not know, it will be the same old neo-liberalism. An important weekend read. Robin McAlpine is the director of the […]
Climate Crisis
Giorgos Kallis – Questioning Our Limits to Leave Scarcity Behind
Whereas mainstream economics is about expansion and productivity, environmentalism has often taken it upon itself to remind people of the limits and the consequences of exceeding them. Too many emissions will see climate catastrophe. Too […]