Climate Change

The UK Government has promised to launch a consultation on public procurement this summer, with a view to buying more local food.

What is in the meaning of a word? I ask because if you look at the meaning of ‘sustainable’ in the Collins English Dictionary it states it is something ‘which conserves an ecological balance by avoiding depletion of natural resources’.

It may come as little surprise that New Zealand is now eyeing tariff free access to the UK in wake of the Australia trade deal.

Farming unions have expressed their disappointment at the failure to provide further detail about global sustainability policies at the G7 summit.

Farmers and villagers are calling on the Government to have a public debate on land use policy, before plans to install solar panels across 1,130 hectares of farmland are submitted next month.

A carbon border tax could be an ’appropriate mechanism’ to address the imbalance should overseas producers fail to meet the UK’s environmental standards, CLA president Mark Bridgeman has said. 

More than 2,000 farmers have responded to Defra’s call for applicants for the pilot of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), one of the Government’s three new schemes.

Farmers capture carbon for a living. We must be part of the solution to climate change. What’s more, as well as saving the planet, we might be able to earn a few quid in the process. But a frenzy of opportunistic corporate ’greenwashing’ is putting all that at risk.

Wales’ Rural Affairs Minister Lesley Griffiths has kept her job in First Minister Mark Drakeford’s reshuffle of the Welsh Government.

Farmers should avoid rushing into carbon offsetting deals until there is greater transparency and regulations in the market place, NFU deputy president Stuart Roberts has warned.