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New labelling for palm oil

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From wtcampaigns.wordpress.com - November 17, 2012 2:24 PM

New labelling will give consumers more power to say no to the palm oil that fuels deforestation. The Government is putting EU rules into action in the UK to force food and drink manufacturers to declare if their products contain palm oil.

 

Food and Farming Minister David Heath said: “The Government is tightening up rules to make it easier for shoppers to make more informed decisions for themselves and their families at the tills. We fought long and hard in Europe for more honest labelling so that people can make up their own minds about what they eat.” ...

 

 

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Rapid and deep emissions reductions may not be easy, but 4°C to 6°C will be much worse”

Rapid and deep emissions reductions may not be easy, but 4°C to 6°C will be much worse” | The Glory of the Garden | Scoop.it
From transitionculture.org - November 4, 2012 8:05 AM

Could you share with us your analysis of where you think we find ourselves in terms of climate change and what’s our current trajectory if we carry on as we are?

 

Can we for definite, in your opinion, say that this year’s extreme weather can be linked to climate change?

 

But would you say that if we were still at 280 parts per million it would be much less likely that we would have had a summer like this?

 

Sometimes people talk about this idea of ‘a new normal’, that the basic conditions around us have changed. In terms of what’s happening in terms of the climate, how would you characterise the ‘new normal’ that we’re in given the rise we’ve had in emissions so far? ...


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