Environmental Protection

We ask what lies ahead for Brazil under Lula’s government which has promised to do more on environmental and social issues.

Chemical industries manufacturing and selling toxic chemicals have escaped EU regulations despite mounting evidence on their harms.

A silent casualty of the indiscriminate Russian shelling of Ukraine is the environment, unleashing long-term threats to public health.

To achieve true environmental justice, we need to rethink our relationship with the planet and those we share it with.

Biodiversity has not full broken onto the political agenda even though its mismanagement drive pandemics and disease outbreaks.

An agroecological Europe could be the answer to a food system that’s bad for our health and damaging to our environment.

As the Covid-19 crisis saw the price of oil plummet, consequences for plastic recycling – and more broadly the transition to a circular economy – may be grave.

The moment is now to redefine our food systems around principles of sustainability and justice.

LIFE projects in the Netherlands offer pointers on how public policy can redress the balance between farming and biodiversity.

Food policy isn’t working. Does the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) address the problems, or can agroecology provide the answers?