The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market , an independent governance body for the voluntary carbon market, will launch a definitive set of global threshold standards in the third quarter of 2022, after it launches a public consultation in May. But because of fears about being accused of greenwashing, many stress they are focussed […]
Food giants Nestlé and Unilever stand accused of greenwashing over their climate commitments, for instance. They believe there’s simply no time for offsets – trees can take 20 years to grow, after all, while the emissions are occurring today. In the fourth quarter of this year it officially reached a value of US$1 billion amid […]
Sugar content is increasingly front-of-mind for adult shoppers. This means volume promotions will be banned, as will the placement of HFSS products in secondary promotional locations, and the marketing of such products in digital and pre-watershed TV. In France, snacks brand Il Etait un Fruit is making dried fruit snacks without added sugar or oil. […]
‘Unsafe food’ contaminated with bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances is linked to 200 diseases, from diarrhoea to cancers, the World Health Organization notes. “Of the UK’s 10,990 food and drink manufacturing businesses, 97% are classed as SMEs in information collated by the Food & Drink Federation and in 2020 up to the end of […]
