Hazel Healy

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.

Jul 9, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Brigitte Wear |Hazel Healy |Michaela Herrmann

Above photo: A super trawler fishing off the coast of Mauritania, West Africa. Credit Pierre Gleizes / Greenpeace. Campaigners criticise “highly flawed” voluntary schemes. DeSmog analysis finds lack of representation from civil society, or impacted communities. Flagship initiatives to ensure “responsible sourcing” for the global aquafeed industry in West Africa are being undermined by systemic conflicts of interest, endangering efforts to safeguard critical fish stocks, DeSmog can reveal.

Jul 4, 2024 | desmog.com | Brigitte Wear |Hazel Healy |Michaela Herrmann

Flagship initiatives to ensure “responsible sourcing” for the global aquafeed industry in West Africa are being undermined by systemic conflicts of interest, endangering efforts to safeguard critical fish stocks, DeSmog can reveal. The findings raise concerns at a time of growing evidence of the harms caused by the fishmeal industry in the region, prompting accusations of “greenwashing” from campaigners.