The Dutch Minister for Agriculture hosted a conference on patents and plant breeders’ rights today. IFOAM EU say it’s unfair that patents give companies monopoly rights...
Monday’s news included information on the EU referendum, a sustainability toolkit from the Investment Leaders Group and all you need to know about a new innovative...
From today a European Union (EU) Referendum leaflet will be posted out to every household in the UK. The leaflet, from the Electoral Commission, has been...
The European Commission should conduct a Europe-wide study into wrongly labelled fish in restaurants, say conservationists Oceana. They want the European Commission to combat fish fraud...
The EU has hosted its first ever joint European Tourism Indicators System (ETIS) and Accessible Tourism Awards. The Awards, held in Brussels and presented by the...
The UK government has issued air quality warnings for the weekend. The Government claims the smog the UK could experience is due to winds bringing pollution...
The World Green Building Council is urging governments, businesses, consumer groups and NGOs across Europe to come together to create ambitious plans for how their countries...
Today’s (11 April) Economic and Social Research council review on the EU Referendum and the UK environment provides new academic evidence that remaining in the EU...
Friends of the Earth Trust will continue to campaign in favour of the UK remaining in the EU, the charity’s Trustees confirmed today. The announcement follows...
Statement by Dr Julia Baines, PETA UK, in response to Advocate General Michal Bobek’s opinion that cosmetics products and ingredients that have been tested on animals...
The Government’s ability to meet EU targets for delivering low carbon homes following the Paris international climate change agreement has been challenged by a new report....
The EU Council of Ministers and European Parliament struck a deal on the first multiannual plan, opting to maintain the unsustainable overfishing at the expense of...
Commenting on a new report from the IEEP, published today [Wednesday 9 March] by the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and WWF, which concludes that “it is likely...
The Netherlands has today imposed a first-ever sanction on a Dutch company for violating the European Timber Regulation. The sanction follows a Greenpeace investigation into the...
On March 7 and 8, 2016, the EU Standing Committee on Plant, Animal, Food and Feed (PAFF Committee) re-evaluated the authorization of glyphosate – the world’s most...