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Triggering a critical mass of sustainable investment: How can Europe do it?

February 12, 2018

Kirsten Dunlop is Chief executive of Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest public-private innovation partnership focused on climate change. Kirsten leads Climate-KIC’s mission to decarbonise and transform land, cities and manufacturing sectors through strategic innovation and systemic change. The European Commission’s HLEG Working Group on Sustainable Finance released its long-awaited final report on 31 January. More than two… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, development, Development Policy, EU Priorities 2020, Financial Services, Future EU, Global Europe, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev.

Open letter to Health Commissioner Andriukaitis concerning the fight against child cancer

December 11, 2017

    Dear Mr. Andriukaitis, We are the proud parents and representatives of beautiful, funny, noisy children. Some of them live in our hearts, some of them survived cancer after a long and toxic treatment. When a child is diagnosed with cancer, people often comfort parents by invoking progress made in cancer treatments. The scandal… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research

Poland on the Road to Electromobility

September 20, 2017

Guest post by Michal Kurtyka, PHD Electromobility is one of the several strategic directions for Poland’s economic development in the near term. On March 16, 2017, the Polish government adopted the Electromobility Development Plan, which set goals and directions for action in this area until 2025. The energy composition of transport fuels, shaped through history,… » read more

  Posted by The Guest Blog

blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Competition, Development Policy, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Polish, Science & Research, Transport

Healthcare and Life Sciences implications of Brexit

September 5, 2016

This is summary of some emerging and salient issues related to the UK departure from the EU. Workforce It is estimated that the UK recruits 7000 nurses and 2000 doctors annually from the EU. The UK is currently unable to meet its workforce requirements for the publicly funded NHS from its domestic higher education system.… » read more

  Posted by Euro-Sante :: Euro-Health

blogactiv, Healthcare, life sciences, Science & Research, Social Europe

IARC’s unprofessional and unethical behaviour. Time to retract their glyphosate monograph

March 21, 2016

  The last blog looked at ten reasons why glyphosate is the herbicide of the century. So why then, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence and clear environmental and social benefits, is this product on the verge of having its authorisation removed? The NGO activists and pro-organic lobbyists have led a formidable campaign that started a… » read more

  Posted by The Risk-Monger

Agriculture & Food, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research

How to Deal with Stupid: Part 1/10 – Defining Stupid

November 20, 2015

The following is Part 1 of a ten-part blog on governance to be serialised over the holidays. Today our personal decision-making process is strongly influenced by the latest social media applications yet EU and American government policy mechanisms, developed in the last century, have not been adapted to these communications tools. This discrepancy has created… » read more

  Posted by The Risk-Monger

Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Energy, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev.

Media Hypocrisy: Marketing Emotions, Ignoring Facts on Cancer Findings

October 30, 2015

As we watch the mainstream media come up with excuses for the IARC monograph that showed, without a shadow of a doubt, that prepared meats and sausages are carcinogenic (Group 1 = carcinogenic), we should take a moment to reflect on why our news sources have become so inconsistent when it comes to reporting on… » read more

  Posted by The Risk-Monger

Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev.

The Top 20 Reasons not to Feed your Family Organic! Part 2

September 10, 2015

  In my previous blog, I introduced 10 reasons why you should not feed your family organic food as a means to open up a rational debate. With these further 10 reasons, I want you to reconsider your position on the use of crop protection substances: Have you been manipulated by good story-tellers? Have the… » read more

  Posted by The Risk-Monger

Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev.

The Top 20 Reasons not to Feed your Family Organic! Part 1

  Recently the Mommy-bloggers paid by the organic industry lobby have been hitting the scientific and corporate communities quite hard with fear campaigns and ‘if you love your children’ guilt trips. Money is pouring in from all angles and even Hollywood stars are reading from their prepared scripts: “Pesticides and GMOs = evil”, and “Organic… » read more

  Posted by The Risk-Monger

Agriculture & Food, BioTech, blogactiv, Climate & Environment, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Innovation and Growth, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev.

EFSA’s Neonicotinoid Scandal, Part II: Illogical, Illegitimate, Illegal 

September 1, 2015

EFSA has tried to use an illegitimate bee guidance document to reject the main bee science and push for a further ban on neonicotinoids.

Agriculture & Food, bee field studies, bee field trials, bee guidance document, Clothianidin, DG Santé, EFSA, EU Treaty & Institutions, Food & Consumers, Health & Consumers, Imidacloprid, Miko, neonicotinoids, neonics, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev., Thiamethoxam, transparency

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The Growing Risk of Contrapreneurs

August 28, 2015

An expedient policy process relying on precaution and hazard-based regulations has allowed contrapreneurs to cement their anti-innovation strategy at the heart of Brussels

Agriculture & Food, BioTech, Business & Climate Change, Climate & Environment, contrapreneur, contrapreneurship, Energy, entrepreneur, EU Priorities and Opinion, expediency, expedient, Food & Consumers, hazard-based regulation, Health & Consumers, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, precaution, precautionary principle, Public Affairs, risk assessment, Risk-based regulation, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev.

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Risk-based or Hazard-based Regulation

August 27, 2015

What is the difference between the risk-based regulatory approach and a hazard-based one? Why is it that hazard-based activists are so successful in pushing such an unrealistic approach?

Agriculture & Food, ALARA, BioTech, Climate & Environment, Energy, EU Priorities 2020, Food & Consumers, hazard-based regulation, Health & Consumers, Innovation & Enterprise, Innovation and Growth, mobile phones, Pesticides, pharmaceuticals, precaution, precautionary principle, Public Affairs, Risk-based regulation, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev., Transport & Services

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Anti-GMO Neo-McCarthyism: It’s getting shilly out there!

August 14, 2015

The organic lobby’s war on science and biotech follows a Neo-McCarthyist path of intimidation and propaganda. It is a dark day for research when individual liberties are sacrificed for a political argument.

Agriculture & Food, BioTech, Food & Consumers, GMOs, Health & Consumers, Joseph McCarthy, Kevin Folta, monsanto, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Neo-McCarthyism, organic industry lobbying, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, shills, war on science

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A letter to Kumi Naidoo on Greenpeace’s GMO position: Moral character will be your legacy

June 11, 2015

A recent BBC Panorama report shows the evident lack of science in Greenpeace’s position on GMOs. Former head of Greenpeace UK calls their position “morally unacceptable”. Kumi Naidoo needs to show leadership and accept the science on GMOs.

Agriculture & Food, BioTech, Doug Parr, Food & Consumers, GMOs, Golden Rice, Greenpeace, Health & Consumers, Innovation and Growth, Kumi Naidoo, Public Affairs, Science & Policymaking, Science & Research, Sustainable Dev.

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