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December 6 2011
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The UK Government’s Carbon Plan was published in December 2011.  It sets out how government’s proposals and policies for meeting the first four carbon budgets - legally binding limits on the amount of emissions that may be produced in successive...

October 17 2011
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New research commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe from Sustainable Europe Research Institute shows the scale of flows of ‘virtual land’ around the world – this is all the land that has been used to produce traded products. The European...

April 26 2011
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Markovitch EM and Bowerman T (2011). How much is enough? Examining the public’s beliefs about consumption, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Vol. 00, No. 0, 2011, pp. 1—23

April 26 2011
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The Sustainable Development Commission has published its final food related report: Looking back, Looking Forward: Sustainability and UK food policy 2000 – 2011.

April 25 2011

Kasterine A and Vanzetti D (2011). The Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity of Market-based and Voluntary Measures to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Agri-food Sector, UNCTAD

April 23 2011
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Organisations representing the agricultural and horticultural industry in England have launched a joint Greenhouse Gas Action Plan (GHGAP) setting out how the industry will reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by three million tonnes of CO2...

March 16 2011

Michaelowa, A. and Dransfeld, B. (2008) "Greenhouse gas benefits of fighting obesity", in Ecological Economics, 66, p. 298-308

March 11 2011

This article holds that reform is needed to secure sustainability outcomes from the MSC process. The reference for this opinion piece is: Seafood stewardship in crisis, Jennifer Jacquet, Daniel Pauly, David Ainley, Sidney Holt, Paul Dayton and Jeremy...

March 11 2011

The 25th Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution report entitled "Turning the Tide - Addressing the Impact of Fisheries on the Marine Environment" was published in December 2005.

March 11 2011
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This chapter of the World Watch Institutes State of the World report, 2008, "Meat and Seafood: The Global Diet’s Most Costly Ingredients", considers new innovations and old techniques for maximising food productivity and reducing environmental...