Never has the subject of Front-of-package food labels (FOPL) been so hotly debated in Europe. On Tuesday, December 15th, an Agriculture and Fisheries Council of ministers took place in Brussels
Archive for December 2020
On Monday 21 December, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended conditional approval for the use of the BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine across the 27-nation EU bloc. The approval of the Amsterdam-based
Reassessing the climate action, revisiting Baseline assumptions and avoiding ‘one-fit-all’ approach
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At the end of 2019, I had the chance to participate in a peer-review of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Although the texts
While the natural world continues to shrink, the ‘anthropogenic mass’ – the mass of all human-made materials created since the Industrial revolution, including houses, cars, roads, and aeroplanes – has
Why Mediterranean food culture is as important as the Mediterranean diet for sustainability
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They say you are what you eat, but in reality, your diet will have much more impact on what is likely to become of you in the future. Genetics account
The importance of below-ground biodiversity, as well as its complex interaction with the above-ground world, is often overlooked, according to a recent UN report. Soil is not only vital to
The capacity of cells to repair and regenerate themselves declines with age, however, reprogramming certain cells to become ‘younger’ could potentially reverse the biological clock and restore vision, according to
According to a recent study from the Pew Research Centre, a very large number of people on Earth place global warming top as one of the defining issues of our
The world needs an intergovernmental panel for food systems to help reset how food systems function in the same way the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has shaped climate
In a ‘historic moment’, the UK has become the first western country to approve a vaccine for use against COVID-19, paving the way for mass immunisation. On Wednesday 2 December,