La veille

Une analyse de l’ONG Changing Markets Foundation montre comment un réseau d’influenceurs a attaqué une étude d’envergure sur l’alimentation de 2019, perçue comme une menace pour les secteurs de l’élevage et de la viande.

In this episode, I’m joined by ecologist Thomas Crowther to discuss the critical importance of biodiversity as an intricate web of life that supports all other living beings, not just through the sheer number of species, but because of the complexity of interactions within ecosystems. Thomas highlights the power of data in empowering individuals to make informed choices that positively impact nature, and the critical need to address inequality in order to foster ecological recovery.

This report reveals the tactics of Big Meat and Dairy companies to delay, distract, and derail action on transforming the food system, mirroring strategies used by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. Food systems are responsible for around a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, with approximately 60% coming from animal agriculture, the largest source of man-made methane emissions.

Jordanians now only have access to publicly distributed water a day and a half a week – prompting many to turn to illegal markets.

This report focuses on the 20 investors and 20 banks that are funding the methane generating activities of 15 of the leading meat and dairy companies worldwide. Collectively these financial institutions fund a methane footprint that could exceed 503 Mt CO2e – nearly as big as the CO2emissions of Saudi Arabia.

Global coal demand is set to increase only marginally in 2022 but enough to push it to an all-time high amid the energy crisis, according to a new IEA report, which forecasts the world’s coal consumption will remain at similar levels in the following years in the absence of stronger efforts to accelerate the transition to clean energy.

Hoewel ze niet meer te verkrijgen zijn in de winkelstraten van Moskou en Sint-Petersburg, gebruiken kledingmerken als Esprit en New Look Russische olie om hun kleding te produceren. Daarmee voeden ze onrechtstreeks de oorlog in Oekraïne, blijkt uit onderzoek.