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Government misses its own sustainability targets in 2007
The Sustainable Development Commission is calling on the government to take urgent and radical action to meet its own sustainable development targets. The call comes as the Commission publishes the sixth annual assessment of government operations, which finds that, despite encouraging initiatives, government is still not on course to meet targets and urgently needs to raise its game. Read more
Budget 2008 Darling of the environment movement?
Centre for Alternative Technology’s reaction to Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Budget 2008. There were some green measures in Chancellor Alistair Darling’s red box. But these offerings are only small steps in the right direction says CAT. Read more
Growing a green Baby
Linda Sones, from sonesuk.com, the online organic baby clothes retailer, writes about how to give your baby the best start in life by choosing a sustainable road. Read more
Close Mediterranean seaports to Pirates demands EJF
The Environmnetal Justice Campaign strongly commends approval of a new region-wide scheme for stronger Port State controls targeting illegal, unreported and underreported (IUU) fishing by the FAO-established General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM). Read more
Budget 2008- Green Party’s Response
’Darling bottles it in a budget that is Brown, not Green’- It tells you all you need to know about the government’s attitude to the environment that Darling chose the section on climate change to reaffirm his commitment to expanding both Heathrow and Stansted airports Read more
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2008 Budget- one step forward two steps back
The Chancellor has fallen a long way short of his promise to put sustainability at the heart of today’s Budget, says Friends of the Earth. In a budget widely proclaimed as the Greenest budget ever Alistair Darling failed to take any bold measures to confront Climate Change. Read more
Friends of the Earth call for £5 billion windfall tax on energy companies
The Government must massively expand its efforts to increase levels of energy efficiency in the homes of the fuel poor, Friends of the Earth said today. The green group warned that Government efforts to boost the income or lower the bills of the fuel poor would neither provide a permanent solution to fuel poverty in the face of rising energy costs or tackle climate change. Read more
Scientists, consumers and farmers all call for a ban on cloning
A monster coalition of farmers, scientists, consumers, environmentalists and animal welfare campaigners has written an open letter to the European Commission to call for an immediate ban on the cloning of animals for food production, and on the import and sale of imported food products from cloned animals and their offspring. Read more
Fairtrade and ethical investment - a perfect partnership
As Fairtrade Fortnight draws to an end, James Caldwell from Fairinvestments.co.uk looks at the link between the ethics of Fairtrade and ethical investments. Read more
2008 the year that the natural and organic cosmetics finally get standards
According to leading organic research organization, Organic Monitor, 2008 should see the cosmetics industry finally see some standards being applied to labeling of cosmetics claiming to be organic or natural. Until now outside of the organic certification process by the likes of the Soil Association it has been up to the producer to decide. Read more
18 Fairtrade ideas for Fairtrade Fortnight
With Fairtrade Fortnight reaching the end of its first week, the Fairtrade Foundation has come up with a18 tips and nuggets of Fairtrade information to spread the word about the UK’s fastest growing grocery sector. Read more
Ethical ISA interest now at 85% says Co-op Bank research
As ISA season approaches research from the Co-operative Insurance. indicates that ethical investment has hit the mainstream with the number of consumers willing to invest ethically increasing by 18 per cent in the past year to 85%. Read more
Adam Smith Institute’s ‘UnFairTrade’ 493 million say Nay
The Adam Smith Institute, the people that tried to sell us the poll tax, rail privatisation, and deregulated buses, have chosen Fairtrade Fortnight to publish Marc Sidwell’s ‘UnFair Trade’, a neo-liberal diatribe against the principals of Fairtrade. With Fairtrade sales of £493 million in 2007 nobody is buying their hokum. Read more
Fairtrade sales grow 81% in 2007 to £493 million
Sales of Fairtrade products in 2007, announced to coincide with the beginning of Fairtrade Fortnight (25 February – 9 March 2008) set a new pace for international trade. As the two-week annual campaign entitled Change Today. Choose Fairtrade gets underway across the UK , the Fairtrade Foundation reveals an increase of estimated retail sales of Fairtrade products to £493m, a huge 81% increase on 2006 sales of £273m. Read more
MEPs call for ban on cloning animals
European parliamentarians are calling for the European Union to ban cloning of animals for food and any products derived from their offspring. Read more
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