Brigitte Wear

Nov 21, 2024 | desmog.com | Brigitte Wear

Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food sector – one that proponents have long argued can help conserve wild fisheries. The argument goes that farming seafood instead of catching it will provide respite to over-fished species at sea. Farmed fish themselves also need to eat, however. And some of the world’s most valuable species, like salmon and trout, are fed on fish from the ocean.

Jul 23, 2024 | truthdig.com | Clare Carlile |Brigitte Wear

Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates. Company spending on advertising outstripped that on low-carbon solutions, the report by campaign group Changing Markets Foundation found, as corporations ramped up attempts to win consumers over with their green credentials.

Jul 23, 2024 | nationofchange.org | Clare Carlile |Brigitte Wear

Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates. Company spending on advertising outstripped that on low-carbon solutions the report by campaign group Changing Markets Foundation found, as corporations ramped up attempts to win consumers over with their green credentials.

Jul 23, 2024 | desmog.com | Brigitte Wear |Hazel Healy |Michaela Herrmann

The original version of this article appeared in English on DeSmog on 4 July 2024Les initiatives phares visant à garantir un « approvisionnement responsable » pour le secteur mondial de l’aquaculture en Afrique de l’Ouest se trouvent compromises par des conflits d’intérêts systémiques, menaçant ainsi les efforts déployés en vue de préserver des stocks de poissons essentiels, comme le révèle l’enquête de DeSmog.

Jul 22, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Clare Carlile |Brigitte Wear

Above photo: Andrew Skowron / We Animals Media. Brazilian meat giant JBS invested just 0.03 percent of annual revenues into climate measures, researchers found. Global meat and dairy giants are investing just a fraction of their revenues into cutting emissions despite being among the world’s largest polluters, according to new estimates.