All Government policy articles – Page 58
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Fairtrade’s call for government to deliver climate finance promise backed by retailers
Developed countries have pledged to mobilise $100bn annually from 2020 to support developing nations in tackling climate change
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CO2 crisis: deal agreed to maintain supply into the new year
A temporay government bailout, which led to the restarting of CO2 gas production last month, was due to end on 12 October
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Ex-Tesco CEO Dave Lewis to advise government on supply chain crisis
Lewis will work with government officials to “quickly resolve acute, short-term issues”
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Food industry calls for more government collaboration to tackle obesity and sustainability
Government should work with the industry to change food culture rather than hammer it with taxes, according to the report, which forms the industry’s answer to the Dimbleby review
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Analysis and Features
How can the meat sector attract and train more British workers?
Boris Johnson is doubling down on his stance industry should stop ‘relying on cheap foreign labour’. So how can the sectors move forward?
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Nestlé to slash cereals sugar and salt in non-HFSS reformulation
By the end of 2021, the fmcg giant says it will have slashed an estimated 59 million teaspoons of sugar from its breakfast cereals
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AHDB pledges to look outward following ‘turbulent’ period
After votes to abolish two industry levies, the organisation had been through a “very tough” period, said CEO Tim Rycroft
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Comment and Opinion
Whitehall can no longer be counted on: the food industry must deal with crises alone
Most of the food industry can only really look back on the past two years of government talks and see it as ineffective lobbying
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Comment and Opinion
Dubious rhetoric won’t be enough to carry the UK through COP26 and beyond
The UK has nowhere to hide on its climate change commitments, says Andrew Kuyk, director general at Provision Trade Federation
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Pig cull underway as PM dismisses concerns of pork sector
About 600 pigs have been culled so far, said the National Pig Association on Wednesday, with many more to follow
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Calls for mandatory nutritional labelling across food to promote healthier diets
Action on Salt and Sugar said the move could potentially prevent diet-related diseases such as obesity, strokes and heart attacks
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‘Urgent action’ needed to avoid food & drink missing carbon targets, says Wrap report
What Wrap is calling the ‘most comprehensive mapping of the UK’s food & drink carbon footprint ever’ sets out five key actions needed for the industry to achieve a 50% reduction by 2030
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Comment and Opinion
Boris Johnson is alienating industry with casual disregard – next he’ll be alienating voters
The pig sector has reacted with fury over the PM’s dismissal of the growing backlog of pigs on farms caused by the labour crisis
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Landlords urge chancellor to end ‘routine abuse’ of insolvency regime by retailers
The British Property Federation’s Budget submission to the chancellor renews its call for reform of the UK’s insolvency framework
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UK’s cultured meat sector ‘could be worth £2.1bn to economy’
British startup Ivy Farm Technologies has called on the government to support the UK’s emerging lab-grown meat sector
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Analysis and Features
Scope 3: how businesses are tackling the final frontier in carbon emissions
We’ve got used to food and drink companies announcing carbon-cutting initiatives across production and retail. But reducing indirect Scope 3 emissions – everything from sourcing ingredients to how consumers dispose of packaging – is a huge challenge. So how are businesses measuring their emissions and taking action?
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BRC calls on chancellor to cut business rates in autumn Budget
The BRC’s call comes as a new report commissioned by retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Co-op claims reducing business rates could boost the government’s ‘levelling up’ agenda
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Transport minister’s ‘call to arms’ drops on to doormats of a million HGV licensees
Letter is part of government’s plan to address 100,000 shortfall in the number of HGV drivers in the UK
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Comment and Opinion
Why the haulage industry has been ‘set up to fail’ in driver shortage
Boris Johnson’s three-month visa scheme has been dubbed “disingenuous” by an industry scrambling to find willing and able drivers across the channel
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Gist launches in-house HGV training and testing centre to tackle driver shortage
Gist expects its new in-house training and testing programme to deliver up to 300 newly qualified HGV drivers a year