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This article was published by C3. COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt is due to end Friday, November 18th. Much like COP26 last November in Glasgow, Scotland, it has been greeted by much media attention and fanfare. These global climate conferences always feel momentous, but there is a danger that momentum …

The European Commission proposed a new law to halt deforestation and minimise the EU’s impact on forests worldwide. The new law aimed at preventing palm oil and other products linked to deforestation from being sold in the EU single market of 450 million consumers. But campaigners and critics have highlighted …

The European Parliament, situated in Brussels, Belgium, and Strasbourg, France, has passed a law known as the “European Union Deforestation Due Diligence Proposal,” which aims to transfer the responsibility of combating deforestation from the government to companies and consumers. It follows a commitment to phase out palm oil as a biofuel by …

This article was published in City AM. It seems to come around earlier every year – the season of the climate change conference is upon us once again. And, just as at Christmas, promises are everywhere. In Sharm El-Sheikh, politicians, business people and others met for the 27th annual UN …

This article was first published here. A few months ago, I wrote about an attempt to cancel palm oil. There were spurious claims in the science journal Nature and elsewhere that this innocuous ingredient, used in everything from biscuits to hair products, had ‘links to cancer’. Those claims crumbled under quite basic …