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Polluting farms’ industrial emissions must be regulated
Livestock farms are major sources of air pollution, water pollution and soil pollution.
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EU negotiators must protect forests and human rights
Greenpeace and over 140 other environmental, social justice, Indigenous rights and human rights organisations have written to the European Commission, European environment and agriculture ministers and Members of the European Parliament involved in negotiations on a new EU law to protect forests.
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Tracing forest destruction and human rights abuse
On 17 November 2021, the European Commissionpublished a draft law to address the EU’s contributionto global deforestation and forest degradation. In recentdecades, forests have been cleared and degraded at anaccelerating…
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Poll: 1 in 2 Europeans against spending public money on meat advertising
Over half of Europeans agree that public authorities should not fund marketing aimed at increasing meat consumption, according to a poll Greenpeace France commissioned in…
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Brazilian soy imports
A new study commissioned by Greenpeace Netherlands from Profundo Research shows how much soy is imported into the Netherlands, the EU's largest importer of soy. The report also shows where the soy comes from, and where it goes.
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Polluting factory farms under the spotlight in new EU rules on industrial emissions
The European Commission has proposed for intensive cattle farming to be covered by the Industrial Emissions Directive, and has imposed stricter thresholds on pig and poultry factory farms
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Europe goes despot shopping in misguided response to Putin’s war
As the leaders of the EU’s 27 governments are joined in Brussels by US president Joe Biden to consider a further response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, they seek alternative suppliers to prolong fossil fuels, nuclear energy and industrial farming, and backtrack on measures to tackle the escalating climate and nature crisis, warned Greenpeace.
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Reduce EU meat factory farming to replace Ukraine’s wheat
Brussels – An 8% reduction in the use of cereals for animal feed in the EU would save enough wheat to make up for the expected deficit in Ukraine as…
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Feeding fears: tackling the farming fallout of the war in Ukraine
The recent disruption of Russian and Ukrainian exports of cereals, oilseeds, fertilisers and fossil gas (used in the manufacturing of synthetic fertilisers that underpin modern industrial farming) makes it clearthat Europe’s farming sector…
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50 NGOs call on EU Commission to stop funding meat and dairy ads
Fifty NGOs wrote to the European Commission to take into account the adverse effects of the current levels ofmeat and dairy production and consumption on the climate, biodiversity, and public…