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Just hours after World Leaders at the united nations called for a 21 day ceasefire. These are the latest pictures were getting from lebanon. The idf says strikes happened in beqqa, close to the syrian border, and Southern Lebanon, and targeted weapons depots, rocket launchers, and military buildings. Israel says it has struck more than 2000 hezbollah targets in lebanon over the past few days. The lebanese Health Ministry said more than 70 people were killed by israeli Air Strikes on wednesday 00...

The first fermented feed products have been sold to Iranian farmers, securing promising results, Dr Akbar Taghizadeh, head of the government-run National

During my lifetime, Western societies have enjoyed innovations that have immensely improved public health and the quality of life as well as economic and social advances, food and energy security as well as technologies that have provided for an affluence far beyond that which our grandparents would ever have dreamt possible. And outside of the West, global trade and technology transfers have brought economic opportunities and social development upon once impoverished nations. And yet the compan...

Today’s narrative has a simplistic view: Companies lie; activists are outraged; regulations are tightened further; companies lie again… Wash, rinse, repeat…To play with this well-crafted narrative, we should still ask: What causes companies to make claims that cannot possibly be true? What causes them to cheat? Is it greed? Zealous marketing managers chasing performance bonuses? Is capitalism inherently evil? These assumptions are what underlie the Industry Complex. But perhaps we should b...

Today’s narrative has a simplistic view: Companies lie; activists are outraged; regulations are tightened further; companies lie again… Wash, rinse, repeat…To play with this well-crafted narrative, we should still ask: What causes companies to make claims that cannot possibly be true? What causes them to cheat? Is it greed? Zealous marketing managers chasing performance bonuses? Is capitalism inherently evil? These assumptions are what underlie the Industry Complex. But perhaps we should b...

Recent draft legislation on its way to the European Parliament and Council commonly known as the Greenwashing Directive (officially the Green Claims Directive) plans to introduce stricter measures to stop greenwashing (claims an organisation makes that their products are environmentally sustainable when they are, in fact, not).Is greenwashing only an ‘industrial disease’? Just corporations? Just industry? The European Commission makes that clear. In their short press release for the publicat...

Since the period of stakeholder dialogue in the 1990s and early 2000s, environmental activists engaged in the policy process to try to make an impact. And this worked for the easy wins (increased recycling, lower emissions and effluents, incentives for energy-saving devices, better water and air quality…) but enough was just never enough. The green ambition expanded towards banning synthetic chemicals, plastics, pesticides, fossil fuels, fertilisers, nuclear energy and GMOs, to name a few. Thi...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has outlined various policy and regulatory initiatives being implemented by the Commission to reiterate its