Fairtrade Foundation: UK must clean up food supply chains and stop 'dumping' emissions on poor nations

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The Fairtrade Foundation has called on the UK government to include imported emissions that were generated overseas in the process of meeting UK consumption needs in its carbon targets, in a detailed new report published today

The UK must stop "dumping" its emissions on poorer nations and acknowledge the full extent of its carbon footprint by including its consumption-based emissions within its overall net zero target, according...

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