SUCCESSFUL ENVIRONMENTAL policies have resulted in reduced exposure to harmful environmental contaminants in air, water and food. As a result, Europeans are generally enjoying longer and healthier lives.
However, some contaminants are still a problem, and several new health risks are emerging, for example, from new chemicals, new products and changing lifestyle patterns.
The findings come in a new report, entitled “Environment and human health”, published by the European Environment Agency and ...
THE BRITISH HOSPITALITY ASSOCIATION (BHA) will announce that the UK’s hospitality and tourism industries will create over 30,000 new job opportunities for young people by 2015. The BHA will inform Mark Hoban MP, Minister of State for Employment of the pledge as it hosts its annual Summit at the InterContinental London Park Lane on Tuesday 11 June, 2013.
The job opportunities are 14,832 permanent roles, 11,103 apprenticeships, and 5,157 paid university ...
TAXES, INCENTIVES, regulations, subsidies, trade and public procurement need to be realigned to favour sustainable consumption and production patterns if the world wants to end poverty.
That’s according to the UN High Level Panel charged with setting the new direction for global development. Its latest set of recommendations, the 26-member panel, which included UK prime minister David Cameron and Unilever CEO Paul Polman, mark a clear break from the practice of ...
COACHES AND athletes from the UK Olympic diving team have joined forces with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage to launch a new course.
Held at the restaurant’s chef school, Essential Eating is a one-day, City & Guilds-accredited course focusing on how to source and cook nutritious, performance-boosting foods in a sustainable, seasonal way. The emphasis is on using local, seasonal ingredients to create dishes that are high-energy, low-fat and low-salt, said River ...
THE LATEST figures on fish stocks in EU waters indicate that efforts to phase out overfishing are paying off, said the European Commission.
In a consultation document, the Commission reported on the state of European fish stocks. The data shows that 39% of assessed fish stocks in EU waters of the Northeast Atlantic are now overfished, down from 47% last year and 95% in 2005.
Maria Damanaki, EU commissioner for maritime affairs ...