The annual Food Statistics Pocketbook provides a round-up of statistics on food covering the economic, social and environmental aspects of the food we eat. It has chapters on food chain, consumer demand, food supply and prices, environment, health,...

This report makes the case against using offsets (taking the Clean Development Mechanism as its key example of an offsetting scheme) as a means of meeting the UK's climate change targets. It argues that offsetting is having a disastrous impact on the...

Provisional statistics published in 2008 for total UK greenhouse gas emissions for 2007 showed a drop of two per cent over the previous year, with 639.4 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent, down from 652.3 million tonnes in 2006.

Figures released by Defra on 31 January 2008 show that the UK's carbon dioxide emissions "stayed virtually the same" in 2006, dropping by just 0.1% to 554.5 million tonnes CO2. Overall greenhouse gases fell by 0.5% on the year before.