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22.04.26 - 13:12
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World food systems ′pushed to the brink′ by extreme heat, UN warns (The Guardian)
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Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to riseExtreme heat is threatening the world's food systems, with farmers unable to work outside, livestock experiencing stress and crop yields falling, putting the livelihoods of more than a billion people in peril, the UN has warned.Experts said food supply in some areas was being “pushed to the brink” by increasingly common and severe heatwaves, on land and at sea, in a major report written jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Continue reading......
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22.04.26 - 01:48
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Bill banning people born after 2008 from buying tobacco clears UK parliament (The Guardian)
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Ministers hope tobacco and vapes bill, which will become law next week, will create a 'smoke-free generation'A bill banning anyone born after 2008 from buying tobacco in the UK has completed its progress through parliament in a move that ministers hope will create a “smoke-free generation”.Under the tobacco and vapes bill anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 will never be able to be legally sold tobacco across the UK, in an effort to save lives and reduce the burden on the NHS. Continue reading......
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21.04.26 - 20:54
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Britisches Tabakverbot nimmt letzte Hürde im Parlament (DPA-AFX)
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LONDON (dpa-AFX) - Großbritannien wird rauchfrei - zumindest auf lange Sicht. Ein entsprechender Gesetzentwurf zum Verbot von Tabakverkauf nahm nach langwierigen Beratungen nun die letzte Hürde im Parlament.Das Gesetz, dem nur noch die ......
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21.04.26 - 16:03
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"We′re On Borrowed Time": Vitol LNG Chief Warns Of Coming Food Price Shock (ZeroHedge)
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"We're On Borrowed Time": Vitol LNG Chief Warns Of Coming Food Price Shock
Pablo Galante Escobar, the head of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Vitol, warned the audience at the FT Commodities Summit earlier today that the "world is on borrowed time" and that the Gulf energy shock will develop into a food crisis unless LNG flows resume through the Hormuz chokepoint.
"We are on borrowed time. Every day this trade remains closed and every day production does not come back, we are building a problem for the future, and we are building a problem that, as I said, will be transferred from the energy side into many different sectors, with the food sector being a very important one," Escobar said, who works world's biggest independent energy trader.
Escobar continued, "This is not sustainable, or the energy crisis will become a food crisis. Only gas can supply the feed for fertilizers. We are building a problem for the future."
He added that even if the Hormuz c...
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