soilpollution
A draft law designed to help restore Europe’s degraded soils to health has survived a vote in the European Parliament, but only after it was stripped of legally binding targets and monitoring requirements were significantly watered down or removed entirely. The fate of the Soil Monitoring Law was by no means assured, with several key pieces of European Green Deal legislation having already been either shelved or delayed indefinitely in the run up to EU elections and amid angry protests by farmers. But in a plenary vote on Wednesday (10 April) evening, a proposal by the conservative and nationa...
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Key diary datesTuesday 9 April: Aviation Conference in Brussels: 'Europe's Flight Plan to a Sustainable Future'. Wednesday 10 -Thursday 12 April: 'Mini-plenary' session of European Parliament in Brussels featuring votes on emissions limits for vehicles, soil monitoring, transport carbon footprints and energy measures. Thursday 11 April: Avaaz, WeMove Europe and Oxfam and climate activists will land a private jet in front of the European Parliament during the plenary session, in a campaign targeting Europe’s wealthiest and biggest polluters. In spotlightNext week should see a chunk of Green Dea...
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An estimated six million tonnes of used coffee grounds are created annually. Most go to landfill, generating methane and CO2, or are incinerated for energy. It’s an obvious waste of a byproduct still rich in compounds (if not flavour). On a domestic level, try directing your cafetiere contents to your garden, not your bin: used coffee grounds are excellent as an addition to home compost bins and wormeries, a mulch for roses and a deterrent to snails. And on a global scale, science might have the answer. A new study in the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology suggests that used coff...
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The European Parliament’s environment committee has backed a proposal for mandatory monitoring and remedial measures with a view to restoring an estimated two-thirds of soils that are in poor health, jeopardising biodiversity and future food production. By 42 votes to 26, with 14 abstentions, MEPs on Monday (11 March) adopted their draft position on a Soil Monitoring Law proposed by the European Commission last July, intended to further the aim of restoring to health by 2050 swathes of land that have been degraded by pollution, unsustainable intensive farming or urban sprawl. Environmental cam...
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Soil pollution may be invisible to the human eye, but it compromises the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. Contaminants enter the soil, then move to air and water and enter our agri-food systems, harming our environment and our health. Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more As part of the World Environment Day celebrations and the launch of the recently declared UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will launch the Global Assessment of Soil Pollution report. Executive S...
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