While food prices have skyrocketed over the past couple of years, the recent protests have shown that farmers have pocketed little of the extra money paid by consumers. Read 🧵👇 for The Consumer Voice's take on European Commission proposals to improve farmers' income.

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Please join us for a conversation between two legends – Dr. David Suzuki and Johan Rockström on Friday 12 April from 4.30-5.30pm CET / 10.30-11.30am EST. Register here: virginunite.tfaforms.net/139

Important new PIK study. A shift in our diets could make a considerable difference if we do not want to crash through the 1.5°C limit in the next 10 - 15 years. This calls for globally concerted efforts to support the transition towards sustainable healthy diets.

Euractiv Energy & Environment Life Terra A1.3 Euractiv Energy & Environment  Efforts should also aim to strengthen capacity for wildfire prevention at #landscape level and ensure financial incentives for land managers building forest ecosystem resilience. Read more in our blog⤵️ ieep.eu/news/wildfires… #eaGreenEU

Euractiv Energy & Environment Life Terra European Commission A2.2 Efforts must also prioritise🔑 #forest ecosystems. Meaningful and effective measures must be implemented at speed to prevent EU old-growth forests from continued logging while the gaps in their identification and protection persist. #eaGreenEU

Euractiv Energy & Environment Life Terra A3.3 Improved accessibility of real-time forest data provided by projects such as ForestNavigatorEU  can steer policymakers towards ambitious policy solutions to ensure climate adaptation and forest resilience. #eaGreenEU

This week, our colleagues Julia Bognar krystyna springer from the Land use and climate team presented at the EU Climate Action event "Incentivising Climate Action for a Sustainable and Competitive Agri-Food Value Chain”. 4️⃣ takeaways in the next tweets 👇

For the future of science and society, we need better and more PopSci by scientists. There are key steps the scientific community can take right now to make this happen. 1/5 Science Magazine science.org/doi/full/10.11…

✨New Research: A global multi-indicator assessment of the #environmental impact of livestock products✨ 🌍Read this impactful research #OpenAccess in GEC: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe…

From our archives: Restoring just 20 large mammals — bison, horses, jaguars, and others — to areas where they were lost could help heal nature and fight climate change. Rewilding, scientists say, “should become a global imperative in the decade ahead.” e360.yale.edu/features/large…

🆕study: Tipping risks from overshooting 1.5 °C can be minimised, if global warming is swiftly reversed, a new study shows. Reducing emissions in the current decade is crucial for the stability of the Earth systems functions, scientists find: pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…

Colleagues & I have been getting more pushback than ever for being outspoken about dietary change as a climate mitigation option. In a new survey of over 9000 scientists, 38% adopt less- or no-meat diets and an additional 32% express willingness to nature.com/articles/s4155…

Pleased to be part of the writing team along with Julio G. Fournier Gabela and others for this paper 'Carbon leakage in agriculture: when can a carbon border adjustment mechanism help?' tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

ClimateChangePost: Trend of more extreme drought in Europe continues climatechangepost.com/news/trend-of-… theguardian.com/environment/ar…