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UK Gov’t must adopt a national cooling action plan to protect health and climate

As the UK recovers from its latest record-breaking heatwave, our Climate team today published UK Cooling Policy in a Warming World, an urgent call to action for the UK Government to adopt a national cooling action plan addressing both climate adaptation and mitigation. With the UK warming faster than the global average, heatwaves are becoming […]

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EIA urges UK Government to urgently adopt a national cooling action plan to protect public health and climate goals

LONDON: As the UK recovers from its latest record-breaking heatwave, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today published UK Cooling Policy in a Warming World, an urgent call to action for the Government to adopt a national cooling action plan addressing both climate adaptation and mitigation. With the UK warming faster than the global average, […]

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Climate, conflict and synthetic fertilisers are sowing the seeds of instability

As the latest rupture in an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape, military strikes on Iran by the USA and Israel will likely increase pressure on the world’s ability to feed itself – and it begins with synthetic fertilisers. It is barely more than century since the Haber-Bosch process was developed and the industrial production of ammonia […]

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EIA podcast – how well are major retailers doing in the switch to climate-friendly cooling?

EIA’s report Cooling the Climate Crisis analysed the climate impact of supermarket refrigeration and revealed that up to 70 per cent of a supermarket’s emissions stem from cooling. Our Climate campaigners have been directly engaging with the retail sector since 2009 to make it aware of the serious impacts of using climate-harming refrigeration while simultaneously […]

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Supermarket giant appears to be falling behind in move from climate-harming gases

International supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize appears to be lagging behind when it comes to phasing out climate-harming refrigeration – even though CEO Frans Muller was until just days ago the co-chair of the influential Consumer Goods Forum, which is committed to speeding up the transition to natural refrigerants. Ahold Delhaize, which operates more than 7,700 […]

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Supermarket giant appears to be falling behind in move from climate-harming gases despite CEO’s role to drive change across the sector

LONDON: International supermarket giant Ahold Delhaize appears to be lagging behind when it comes to phasing out climate-harming refrigeration – even though CEO Frans Muller was until just days ago the co-chair of the influential Consumer Goods Forum, which is committed to speeding up the transition to natural refrigerants. Ahold Delhaize, which operates more than […]