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The factory farming industry, following the lessons of fossil fuel companies, has lobbied significantly for EU climate policies to be weakened.To date, already a third of European measures to reduce emissions has been compromised by the industry.To make it known, a relationship of the independent expert group InfluenceMap, which examined the lobbying campaigns conducted in the EU over the last three years by 10 companies and 5 trade associations relating to the meat and dairy industry.The focus was in particular on 6 key ecological policies, such as the industrial emissions directive or the Farm to Fork strategy.Companies involved in breeding and meat production - such as Arla, Danish Crown, Tonnies group, FrieslandCampina, Vion food group - have specifically promoted the most critical and influential positions.The report also suggested that some meat industry giants have used their trade associations to advance their interests, thus protecting themselves from unwanted controversy. Inf...

A ministerial commission will be officially established to review the Environmental Code, but those who will sit on its benches will be people directly connected to sectors that will be affected by that regulatory change.The interministerial decree of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security and the Dicastery for Institutional Reforms - led respectively by Gilberto Pichetto Fratin and Elisabetta Casellati - which creates the commission was published last November 7.And, among the names that will compose it, there are many professionals linked to the world of construction companies and the sector ofOil&Gas.For this reason, the spokesperson for Green Europe and Avs MP Angelo Bonelli speaks of a "coup against the environment", announcing aparliamentary question with which he will ask the government according to which parameters the members of the commission were chosen.Among other things, it will have to deal with very delicate issues, such as changes to the princ...