THE COALITION has reached the halfway stage of its term in office, and the promise to be “the greenest government ever” is proving a heavy burden to carry. In the government’s recent mid-term review document, the first acknowledgement of the pledge is conveniently tucked away [...]
THE LIGHT-TOUCH approach to healthy food policy concerns campaigners, but the government and food businesses are now in contact more than ever – and it’s making a difference, Phil Hooper tells David Burrows. It’s no secret the coalition government likes to nudge rather than push. Nudging, an idea popularised by academics Richard Thaler and Cass [...]
ANNUS HORRIBILIS is how George Monbiot, the environment writer, described 2012 in his first column of 2013. It was, he explained in the Guardian, the year we did our best to abandon the natural world. “In the UK in 2012, the vandals [...]
THE PRIME Minister is likely to have a tough afternoon ahead when he faces questions later today from senior MPs on the Governments environmental record. The evidence session, in front of members of the Liaison Committee the chairs of a number [...]
GOVERNMENTS ARE falling far short of their commitment to keep global average temperature rise below the accepted 2°C goal, putting the world on the brink of climate catastrophe. The UN Environment Programs Emissions Gap Report 2012 identifies a huge gap between current pledges to cut polluting greenhouse [...]
PARLIAMENT WILL debate the Governments TB eradication programme, including planned badger culling. The debate, which has been triggered by a public e-petition asking for further discussions on the controversial government policy to eradicate bovine TB, will take place on October 25th 2012. NFU president Peter [...]
SPEECHES HAVE been the talk of the town in the environmental world recently. On the one hand weve had the prime ministers first speech on green issues. On the other, the Queen set out the governments legislative agenda for the 2012-2013 parliamentary session. Both have divided opinion on their relative environmental merits. [...]
A GROUNDBREAKING partnership between public and private sector promises to create demand for lower-carbon products in the catering sector. Nick Hughes reports. The shift towards a low carbon economy was one of the pillars of David Camerons promise – on becoming Prime Minister – to [...]
