Hazel Healy

Oct 28, 2024 | desmog.com | Hazel Healy |Rachel Sherrington

Under thundery tropical skies, and amid ever more dire warnings on the precarious state of the world’s ecosystems, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference is unfolding in Colombia. This year’s summit, known as COP16, follows on from the last biodiversity conference held in Montréal in 2022, when negotiators struck an historic deal – the equivalent of the Paris Agreement on climate change – to “halt and reverse” nature loss.

Sep 24, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Rachel Sherrington |Hazel Healy

Above photo: Andy Carter. DeSmog re-launches investigative series to track agribusiness’ influence over climate and nature policy in a critical year for decisions on the future of food and farming. This week, as business and government leaders, investors and campaigners gather for New York Climate Week, DeSmog is relaunching its big agriculture series, which will scrutinise the power of food and farming companies.

Sep 20, 2024 | desmog.com | Rachel Sherrington |Hazel Healy

This week, as business and government leaders, investors and campaigners gather for New York Climate Week, DeSmog is relaunching its big agriculture series, which will scrutinise the power of food and farming companies. Agriculture used to play second fiddle to energy when it came to global warming, considered as a nice-to-have. But as global heating continues apace, emissions associated with food are rising fast.

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 23, 2024 | euobserver.com | Hazel Healy

Salmon is marketed to consumers as the ‘chicken of the sea’ – sold as low-carbon, easy to cook and sustainable. Sales of farmed fish are booming in Europe – the aquaculture sector is now the fastest-growing food sector in the world and is often credited with providing respite for our overfished oceans. But there’s a catch.