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NAFTA renegotiation threatens family farmers and the environment
A new NAFTA on the TPP model would lead to less regulation of Big Ag’s environmentally harmful factory farming practices resulting in worse air and water pollution, inhumane treatment of animals, deforestation, and massive use of environmentally-hazardous pesticides, chemical fertilizers and fossil fuels. Read More
OECD, It’s Time for Export Credit Agencies to Stop Funding Fossil Fuels
As they gather in the shadow of the UN Climate Conference, ECAs must cease business as usual and finally move in a new and more sustainable direction by ending all support of fossil fuels by 2020 at the latest. Read More
Senators, don’t put Ex-Im Bank’s fossil fuel financing back in business
After providing almost $6 billion annually to fossil fuels from 2013 to 2015, the U.S. export credit agency – the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) – has been unable to finance large fossil fuel projects for the past two years. Read More
G20 countries need to stop using export credit agencies to finance fossil fuel projects
Originally posted on Devex. by Kate DeAngelis, international policy analyst While some world leaders, such as South Korean President Moon Jae-in and French President Emmanuel Macron, have spouted lofty rhetoric about phasing out coal and other forms of dirty energy domestically, their pledges ignore their countries’ contributions to… Read More
Industrial Ocean Fish Farming — Bad for the Ocean, Fish, and People
Industrial ocean fish farming is looking to take over our oceans and hijack our wild seafood, leaving no room for local fishing communities, tribes, tourism, ship traffic, and recreational anglers. Read More
7 ways Trump’s NAFTA threatens our health, family farmers, animal welfare and the environment
Donald Trump’s plan to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement is a threat to efforts to create a sustainable, healthy, equitable and humane food system for all. For decades, global corporations have pushed for international trade and investment agreements that favor unsustainable, toxic and inhumane… Read More
The Future of Food: The Next Generation of GMOs
Instead of investing in potential problems masquerading as solutions, shouldn’t we invest in the transparent, organic, humane, and socially just production of real food in a way that benefits farmers, food-chain workers, consumers, animals, and the environment? Read More
Less and Better Meat is Key for a Healthier Planet
We can go a long way in that direction by shifting public policy and institutional purchasing to help people shift to protein sources—from both plants and animals—that are better for our bodies and for the planet. Read More
The School Lunch Recipe for Climate Action
As California moves to slash greenhouse gases dramatically by 2030, and schools in San Francisco and elsewhere look to reduce their carbon emissions, a key ingredient is missing from the conversation: meat. Read More
Bill Waren on Trump’s renegotiation of NAFTA
Trump is the man who scandalized the whole world by pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord. He is bringing that same “war on the planet” attitude to negotiating these agreements. Read More