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Sowing Doubt: How Big Ag is Delaying Sustainable Farming in Europe

DeSmogBlog

But now Europe is poised to enact laws that would not only recognise the harms of chemical-intensive agriculture, but also to ensure that synthetic pesticide and fertiliser use is significantly reduced. Industry has lobbied hard to ensure these targets don’t become law.

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The UK Government’s deregulation agenda is dangerous

Envirotec Magazine

For the good of future generations, we must retain existing laws and improve protections for nature, writes Joan Edwards, director of policy for The Wildlife Trusts. Instead, the UK Government is pursuing a dangerous agenda of deregulation that puts the very laws protecting wildlife at even greater risk. billion each year.

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Vapes, chargers, and other ‘invisible’ e-waste are a 9-million-ton problem

The Verge: Energy

The weight of all the vapes tossed out annually across the world equals three Brooklyn Bridges The problem with trashing those items is that electronics often contain hazardous materials like lead or mercury that might leach out of landfills to contaminate soil and water. Hoarding the devices at home isn’t ideal, either.

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Investigation reveals almost 130,000 tonnes of carpet incinerated annually

Envirotec Magazine

Changing Markets, Zero Waste Europe and UKWIN call on the UK government to adopt legislation to increase carpet recycling rates. In fact, a number of major carpet producers in Europe already support mandatory EPR schemes as way to drive change towards a circular economy.” Less than 2% of carpet waste is actually recycled.

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Are Europe’s Farmers Protesting Green Reforms? It’s Complicated

DeSmogBlog

So far, the farmers have won key concessions, with the EU decision on Tuesday to drop its plans to cut pesticide use, hot on the heels of the same move by France on Friday, despite numbers of birds and pollinators plummeting in Europe. And that is the big divide between farmers’ organisations currently in Europe.”

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'Five times the size of London each year': BNP Paribas tots up the biodiversity footprint of its investments

Business Green

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law.

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Biomass Industry Pushes Back Against Europe’s Plans To Protect Woodlands

DeSmogBlog

USIPA also attempts to establish in law that old, or misshapen trees should be used to make pellets, and suggests that companies should still be allowed to harvest wood from countries with national plans for timber and forest management deemed inadequate by the EU. Europe is the leading consumer region of wood pellets globally.