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Draft plan addresses inflated claims about products’ environmental credentials Companies will have 10 days to justify green claims about their products or face “effective, proportionate and dissuasive” penalties, under a draft EU crackdown on greenwashing seen by the Guardian. Inflated claims by firms about their products’ environmental bona fides have grown along with public awareness

Insight, part of a special feature on Deeper Water: Exploring Barriers and Opportunities for the Emergence of Adaptive Water Governance ABSTRACT The Yangtze River Basin faces unprecedented challenges in harmonizing competing interests in its ecological and social systems. The central government of China, in response to the need for change in governance arrangements and cooperation,

Changing habitats and behaviours lead to interactions with a negative outcome for wildlife and humans From blue whales colliding with ships to African elephants raiding crops in villages, the climate crisis is causing a rise in conflicts that lead to injury or death for humans and wildlife, new research shows. The climate crisis is making

Greens leader says party has already made significant compromises on the safeguard mechanism Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s climate minister, Chris Bowen, has again challenged the Greens to support the government’s reforms to the safeguard mechanism, but flat-out rejected the party’s calls to ban new coal

Publication date: May 2023 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 207 Author(s): Gaëlle Leduc, Larissa Billaudet, Ebba Engström, Helena Hansson, Mary Ryan

Energy prices, Brexit and climate crisis mean growers lack confidence to plant crops, says NFU deputy Shortages of some fresh fruit and vegetables such as tomatoes and cucumbers could be the “tip of the iceberg”, the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has said. Certain products are hard to come by in UK supermarkets due to poor