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New research conducted at Edinburgh University into nitrous oxide emissions by agriculture has identified industrial poultry farming as a significant contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions.
Comments by an award-winning London restaurateur that sustainability is “insurance” for restaurant businesses are the most sensible that have come from the latest round of awards for the international and local restaurant scenes.
The co-founder of London’s successful Feng Sushi chain of restaurants, Silla Bjerrum, claims that sustainability is not so much a moral option for restaurants, as it is essential for the health of their business.
Is the way New Zealand manages its oceans sustainable in the long term?
Andrea Illy, chairman and CEO of illycaffè, has been appointed chairman of the Promotion and Market Development Committee of ICO (International Coffee Organization), the most important intergovernmental coffee organisation.
New Zealand King Salmon’s proposal, to change the Marlborough Sounds’ Resource Management Plan in order to expand its farming operation, has stimulated a brisk response from the Marlborough organisation, Sustain Our Sounds.
According to newly published research from the prestigious Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, USA, a global reduction of meat consumption by 50% is the minimum required to meet IPCC nitrous oxide (N2O) emission targets by 2050.
The world’s biggest hotel group has committed to its first carbon reduction target, announcing it will reduce CO2 emissions across all operations by 10%, by 2015.
Competing views between the Green Party and NZ King Salmon over the fish farmer’s plans for expansion in the Marlborough Sounds provide a good reason to stop and think long and hard about what we mean by sustainable.
The Green Party has called King Salmon’s proposal, to change the Marlborough Sounds Resource Management Plan, a “dangerous precedent,” that should be rejected.
“The week-long meeting of the Pacific tuna commission (WCPFC) ended in what will be one of the worst outcomes for tuna conservation this commission has seen,” summarises Duncan Williams Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s oceans campaigner at the conclusion of the week-long meeting that sets fishery regulations for the coming seasons.
A study of pre-European reef fishing by Polynesians in Hawaii yielded annual catches that were between 300 and 400% greater than the modern fishery produces.
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