Blogposts tagged 'Nef'

Live blog: The Future of European Fisheries event at ZSL

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 13 July 2011 at 5:04pm - 0 Comments
Fish in a net
All rights reserved. Credit: Alex Hofford / Greenpeace
Join us at 6pm today for a live blog from the Event - featuring Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and MP Richard Benyon

Live updates from the cross NGO event on the release of the EU's proposal for CFP reform.

Article tagged as: CFP, Client Earth, European Fisheries, Event, marine conservation society, NEF, Ocean 2012, oceans, Reform, RSPB, WWF, ZSL

The day the fish ran out

Posted by jamie - 12 July 2010 at 1:55pm - 0 Comments

I was gearing up to write something on the interesting new report by the New Economics Foundation (Nef) on how the EU is becoming more reliant on fish from other parts of the world, when my attention was drawn to a piece by the BBC's Richard Black who explains far more eloquently than I ever could what 'fish dependence day' is.

Nef has compared the amount of fish caught within the EU with the amount we consume to find out when - if we only ate our own, EU-caught fish from January 1 - we would have to start using fish supplied by other countries. This year, that day was last Friday 9 July or 'fish dependence day' and, like the global ecological debt day which Nef also computes, it's getting earlier each year as we import more and more fish. Or eat more. Or both.

Like I say, Mr Black covers all the main points and more on a sobering thought exercise.

Article tagged as: fish, fishing, NEF, oceans, overfishing, sustainable seafood

Impossible Hamster crushes all before it

Posted by christian - 25 January 2010 at 9:41am - 3 Comments

Is economic growth at the root of the environmental challenges we're struggling to get to grips with? That's a central tenet of the diagnosis for the 100 Months campaign from our hipster friends at the New Economics Foundation.

But how to illustrate this argument? Enter: The Impossible Hamster, twitchy growth-based anti-hero. nef have also produced a report, Growth Isn't Possible, and so both boxes of the modern campaigning strategy are very much ticked: solid research backed up by meme-hugging hamster video.

So, what do you reckon? Is growth the key problem? And does the hamster take your fancy as the unlikely hero of the fightback?

Article tagged as: climate change, growth, impossible hamster, NEF, videos

Government 'Green new deal' delays carbon build-up by only 6 hours

Posted by christian - 30 March 2009 at 11:26am - 4 Comments

Bank of England

Greenpeace climbers scale the Bank of England. Green, not greed - well, it's a nice idea.

It's a cliché, but these are troubled economic times. And so it was that with great fanfare the government's pre-budget report announced a £50 billion recovery plan for the British economy.

Even better for those of us with an interest in the relative green-ness of our economy, Gordon Brown declared that about 10 per cent of the money would go to "environmentally important technologies and potentially jobs in the green industries". Sounds good. One MP said that the £50 billion was going to be used in "greening our economy as a whole".

Isn't it disappointing when something that sounds good turns out to be an illusion? According to a report we commissioned from the New Economics Foundation, any shoots of recovery from the recovery plan aren't going to be particularly green, because behind some creative accounting the government is only stumping up peanuts for the environment. It's not so much a 'green new deal' as a 'greenwashed new deal'.

Article tagged as: climate change, financial stimulus, green new deal, NEF, pbr
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