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On Earth Day 2016, the U.S. joined 175 countries in signing the United Nations Paris climate agreement setting a path forward to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Thursday, September 8 | 3:30 CDT / 4:30 EDT
While nanotechnology and nanomaterials may be tiny, they have huge human and environmental health ramifications. A growing body of scientific research demonstrates that engineered nanoparticles pose threats to human health, raising concerns about their use in food and many other consumer products.
Despite these concerns, nanomaterials can be found in everything from baby formulas to candy to fertilizers, and are largely unapproved and unregulated by the government. Novel products create novel risks: for example, nanomaterials can penetrate human skin and when ingested, reach sensitive places like bone marrow, lymph nodes, the heart, and the brain. But consumers have almost no information about these potential impacts, or even about where nanomaterials may be present. This technology demands new forms of toxicity testing and regulation to improve transparency in our food supply, and ensure the safety of human health and the environment.
Panelists:
Jaydee Hanson, Center for Food Safety
Jaydee Hanson is senior policy director for emerging technologies at the Center for Food Safety. He is the US Co-chair for the Nanotechnologies Taskforce of the Transatlantic Consumers Dialogue and one of the co-authors of The Principles for the Oversight of Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials. His contribution to this webinar focuses on the Center for Food Safety data base of nano chemicals being used in food. He will also address why these hundreds of food products containing unapproved nano ingredients may pose health problems to people who eat them and their children.
Were excited to welcome Josh Wise as the new Director of Development and Communications at IATP.
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Clean Power Plan, President Obama and the EPAs regulation to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants.
To: Environmental Protection Agency
From: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Re: Clean Energy Incentive Program Design Details, Docket ID No. EPAHQOAR20160033
Public opposition to free trade agreements, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that serve to increase inequality and concentrate corporate power has reached a loud crescendo.
Last week, there was a bit of good news on the trade front: on July 8, tobacco giant Philip Morris lost its ridiculous case against Uruguays cigarette labeling laws.
Brussels Today at the European Parliament, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) Europe, Arbeitsgemeinschaft buerliche Landwirtschaft e.V.
Columbia Daily Tribune, November 29, 2006
Report with not endnotes for Selling Off the Farm: Corporate Meat's Takeover Through TTIP.
The Executive Summary for the report Selling Off the Farm: Corporate Meat's Takeover Through TTIP.
The outcome of the referendum in the United Kingdom is worth some thoughts about our future as Europeans.
On a wintry day in March, residents from Winona, Minnesota gathered around tables with flip charts and markers to develop a plan for how the Mississippi River community could respond to climate change.
12:30 to 14:30 CEST
European Parliament Altiero Spinelli building (ASP)
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The organizing NGOs would like to invite you to a panel discussion and press briefing on a new study, Selling Off the Farm: Corporates Meats Takeover Through TTIP.
The meat industry is rapidly changing and with the EU negotiating a new trade agreement, the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), with the U.S.one of the largest meat producers and exportersthe landscape could shift even more. This panel discussion and launch on a new report, Selling Off the Farm: Corporate Meats Takeover Through TTIP, will take a comprehensive look at the meat sector and its powerful corporations, such as Brazil-owned JBS and Chinese-owned Smithfield, and how TTIPs (de) regulatory cooperation agenda threatens rules on climate change, environment, public health, labour and other necessary regulations to mitigate the industrys worst impacts.
Some issues to be discussed:
The Clean Power Plan is the most significant policy shaping the future of the United States energy sector. As such, it will affect rural communities that have long produced much of the nations energy supply. Although rural counties house only 15 percent of U.S.
On July 1, Vermonts law requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods will go into effect. That simple requirement to inform consumers about what they are eating sent a shiver through a Congress hooked on millions of dollars in biotech and food industry money.