SPRING SNOWSTORMS make the perfect backdrop for the government’s new chief scientist to get climate action back on the agenda. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be. Spring should herald warmer sunshine and lambs prancing about in green fields. Instead, they are [...]
JUST 37% of the world’s largest 800 companies are reporting complete data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while even less (21%) have had their data independently verified. New research from the Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO), a climate change and finance think tank, claims that the level [...]
THE CHALLENGES posed to the global coffee market climate change, the economic crisis, rising production costs, volatile prices are well documented. Perhaps less well-documented but just as important is the role that coffee companies the world over are playing in helping minimise the risk of shortages. [...]
Andrew Kobia Ethuru, a Cafédirect grower director at the Michimikuru tea factory in Kenya, talks to Footprint about the realities of climate change in that country and its impact on tea planters. Whilst we in the UK might not feel the effects of climate shifts, growers in far-flung corners of the world such as Kenya [...]
Why food companies need to support climate change adaption
By footprint on August 28, 2012
Published in: Comment, Green Scene, News Analysis and tagged Adapt Now, Cafedirect, Climate Change, Diivine Chocolate, Fairtrade, Gumutindo, Jessica Frank, Liberations Foods CIC, Reforestation, Twin, Uganda.
Septembers Foodservice Footprint will reveal the findings of a new government report showing that businesses are slow in adapting to climate change especially the opportunities it provides. Here, Jessica Frank, climate change project manager at Twin, explains why adaptation is the key to survival. [...]