Engineering
Environment and health: keep it real
IPN Opinion article
Ministers gathering in Libreville for the first African ministerial meeting on environment and health should avoid getting distracted by ill-defined problems like "climate change" and focus on the real environmental killers: dirty water and fuel.
Wealth means health -- progress, not regulation, improves lives
IPN Opinion article
Environment and health ministers from the WHO\'s European region will meet next week in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss 'the effects of a degraded environment on children's health.' This article highlights the role of technological progress in solving human health and environment problems, often overlooked by activists and international agencies.
Labels and Trade Wars
IPN Opinion article
This week the Environment Committee of the European Parliament met to discuss the traceability of genetically modified (GM) food and its labeling. With some luck Parliament will base its decisions on sound science.
But it got no help or guidance last week when the European Union\'s Agriculture Council botched an opportunity to resolve the genetically modified food labeling dilemma. It chose to make labeling mandatory, shamefully exempting those products of large European multinationals.
Want to avoid GM foods? This regulation won't help
IPN Opinion article
Yesterday, the European Parliament's Environment Committee voted to expand the EU's labelling requirement for Genetically Modified foods. The measure, in the form of a proposed regulation put forth by the European Commission last summer, will go next to the full Parliament for a final vote. The regulation has been promoted as a way to ensure that consumers have information they need to make informed choices about the food they eat. In truth, the measure will do no such thing.
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