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May 5 2011
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PBL (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) has published a new study which assesses the effects of present European meat, dairy and fish dietary consumption on biodiversity, land use and GHG emissions. The study has also developed a series of...

April 23 2011
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In 2009, Defra joined forces with Ademe (French Environmental and Energy Management Agency) to sponsor the development of a collaborative LCA website with the technical support of the EU’s Joint Research Centre.

March 28 2011
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The UK Government has published 'Food 2030' which sets out its strategy for a sustainable food system for 2030. The vision is as follows:

March 16 2011

The European Union has set itself the target of meeting 10 per cent of road transport fuel needs from biofuel - fuel produced from biomass - by 2020.

March 11 2011
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A speech by Commissioner Joe Borg at the Baltic Sea 2020 conference on achieving sustainable fisheries, included this reference to climate change: “Fisheries can no longer operate in isolation. Instead, its activities must gel with others, such as...

March 11 2011
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The Institute of European Environmental Policy has recently published its 21st edition of El Anzuelo, a newsletter focusing on fisheries and the environment. This edition includes the impact of climate change on fisheries and the marine environment,...

March 8 2011

India's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions rose by 58 per cent between 1994 and 2007 with the energy sector contributing over half of the emissions, according to a report published by the Indian Government’s Minstry of Environment and Forests...

March 3 2011

A paper (Taheripour F, Hertel T, Tyner W (2010) 'Implications of the Biofuels Boom for the Global Livestock Industry: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis.' GTAP Working Paper No. 58 discusses the interactions between the biofuels and...

March 2 2011
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Defra has just published the findings of research, undertaken by the Agriculture and Environment Research Unit (AERU) at the University of Hertfordshire, in collaboration with the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) and the Food Ethics Council (FEC),...

February 28 2011

An EC commissioned report has just been published which calculates the livestock sector’s contribution to EU GHG emissions using the CAPRI model. 

Leip A., Weiss F., Wassenaar T., Perez I.,...