Cocoa4Future: putting people and the environment back at the heart of cocoa growing
19/01/2021 - Press release
Making cocoa growing in West Africa more sustainable and resilient. this is the task set for the Cocoa4Future project, coordinated by CIRAD and funded by the EU DeSIRA programme and the Agence Française de Développement. Over five years, more than 150 monocrop or agroforestry cocoa plantings will be assessed from an agro-environmental point of view, while 350 farms in Ivory Coast and Ghana will benefit from support for new farmer strategies, notably as regards agroforestry. The different project partners have just signed a consortium agreement.
Elena Polivtseva
Culture has been high on the European Union’s agenda for the last few years, its value recognised in terms of economic development, social cohesion and international relations. Yet it’s over a decade since any official effort was made to establish a comprehensive picture of the working conditions of artists and cultural professionals. The sector is characterised by high precarity: low and unstable incomes, increasingly complex professional statuses and limited access to social security and benefits.
The harmful impact of the Covid-19 crisis, especially on the live arts, reveals structural problems which can no longer be disregarded. With the pandemic, we find ourselves in a historic moment for the EU to take collective action, protecting and improving the working conditions of artists and cultural professionals across Europe. Failure to take such action will make it difficult to safeguard a sector Europe needs for its revival and recovery.
Credit: JAMSTEC [De S. Chiba]
The Messina Strait, a submarine bridge separating the island of Sicily from the Italian Peninsula, is the area with the largest marine litter density worldwide -more than a million objects per square kilometre in some parts-, as reported in a new review paper published in the journal
Environmental Research Letters.
Also, over the next thirty years, the volume of rubbish in the sea could surpass three billion metric tons (Mt), as cited in the study, whose corresponding authors are the experts Miquel Canals, from the Faculty of Earth Sciences of the University of Barcelona, and Georg Hanke from the European Commission s Joint Research Centre (JRC), where scientists carry out research in order to provide independent scientific advice and support to EU policies.
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Study shows improved environmental footprint at Eurojersey
Besides measuring the company’s environmental footprint, a new PEF report detailed the improvements achieved over the previous two-year period.
12th January 2021
A new, updated PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) study has been conducted on Eurojersey’s Sensitive Fabrics range to evaluate improvements in the company’s environmental performance, the results of which were recently validated by an independent organization.
“The Sensitive Fabrics range is the outcome of an innovative, highly qualified research project by Eurojersey, a company that has always used a virtuous and unique production model promoting a set of practices and technologies designed to cut down energy and water consumption and reduce the use of chemicals and waste generation, while paying undivided attention to environmental issues,” Eurojersey said in a statement.