The World Bank estimates demand for meat and dairy products will grow by 85 per cent by 2030. This demand comes predominantly from the industrialised, developed world. Meat and dairy production can have severe consequences for climate change and resource depletion. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in their report Livestock’s Long Shadow have estimated …
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The fact sheets (or briefing papers) on ethical dilemmas which QCEA has been producing during the course of 2009/10 attempt to take a common sense approach to some of the questions facing people who want to do the right thing for the environment, for climate change, but who are confused by the conflicting messages out …
In September 2009 the British government decided to extend the funds of the car scrappage bonus to an additional 100,000 vehicles with the aim of mitigating the impacts of the financial crisis on the struggling car industry and to prevent possible lay-offs. This initiative rewards people who want to scrap their old car with a certain financial …
Car scrapping – sense and nonsense of a popular sceme Read More »
The Lisbon Treaty introduces a new form of public participation in European Union policy shaping, the European citizens’ initiative, which enables one million citizens who are nationals of a significant number of Member States to call directly on the European Commission to bring forward an initiative of interest to them in an area of EU …
Consultation response: the European Citizen’s Initiative Read More »
The Nabucco Gas Pipeline; Influencing the Influential; Active Citizens’ Participation in EU policy making Click here to download (PDF – 295 Kb) Deutsche Ausgabe – Dezember 2009 Die Nabucco Gas Pipeline; Die Einflussreichen beeinflussen; Aktive Bürgerbeteiligung Klicken Sie hier für die deutschen Auszüge (PDF – 104 Kb)
The European Parliament Elections took place over a period of 4 days from 4 to 7 June 2009. This was be the 7th time that the European Parliament is directly elected by the citizens of Europe, and as it happens, the largest-ever transnational democratic election in history, electing over 700 Members of the European Parliament …
Briefing paper: the 2009 European Parliamentary elections Read More »
