Policy & Regulation

The European Commission has approved a €700M sustainability scheme by the Dutch government to compensate farmers who voluntarily close livestock sites. A compensation scheme by the Netherlands government that pays farmers to close…
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The misperception gap widens when officials get more money from fossil fuel interests. By Kate Yoder When the New Orleans City Council debated a proposal for a $210 million gas-fired power plant in 2017, something felt off about the…
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Project 2025, the far-right policy blueprint for a second Trump term, will reverse climate progress to cause billions of tonnes of extra emissions and pollution-related deaths. If Donald Trump takes the White House again in this year's…
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Norway is the latest European country to advocate for a plant-forward diet in its national dietary guidelines – but its recommended meat intake is still high, since it doesn't factor in climate impact. In a year when Austria and Germany…
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A new study reveals how people perceive the different terms used to describe climate change, and how they fare across the US political spectrum. When the Guardian announced in 2019 that it would stop using the term 'climate change',…
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The UN has stated that misinformation by fossil fuel companies is slowing down the energy transition and global efforts to tackle climate change. A "massive" misinformation and disinformation campaign by Big Oil is impeding climate…
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In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Chloe Coscarelli's comeback to the restaurant world, vegan hits at UK…
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California's Upside Foods has filed a lawsuit against the state of Florida over its ban on cultivated meat, and is asking the federal court for an injunction. Here's what happened, and what's to come. Forty-two days after Florida…
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The Indian government has introduced over 100 high-yielding, climate-resilient varieties of crops for farmers, a group among the country's most vulnerable to global warming. India has unveiled 109 future-facing varieties of crops for an…
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A third of all renewable energy carbon credit projects have failed to meet the 'high-integrity' standards required to use the Core Carbon Principles label. Major worries are emitting from the carbon offsets sector, after an industry…
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The world's leading judge of corporate climate goals has described carbon credits as largely "ineffective" in a key study, although it leaves the door open for limited use. The pushback against carbon credits as a viable net-zero…
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The Dutch government's decision against implementing a tax on meat products in 2021 was based on a one-sided, biased report, an investigation has found. A government-commissioned report calling a meat tax in the Netherlands "unfeasible"…
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A new report has found that nearly a quarter of elected federal officials in the US think climate change is a hoax, and all of them belong to the Republican Party. “We’ve had freezing periods in the 1970s. They said it was going to be a…
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A Brazilian cattle farmer has been fined $50M for destroying parts of the Amazon rainforest, and ordered to restore the land he deforested. A federal court in Brazil last month froze the assets of a local cattle rancher, ordering him to…
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In our weekly column, we round up the latest news and developments in the alternative protein and sustainable food industry. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Mr. Charlie's new vegan cheeseburger, Califia Farms' acquisition of…
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Australia has unique advantages when it comes to pushing the future of protein technology forward, argues independent alternative protein think tank Food Frontier CEO Dr Simon Eassom. Food systems transformation is increasingly being…
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Paris 2024 was touted to be the most sustainable ever, with a majority of food being meatless – now, the Olympics has reneged on this promise. It's a major failure. For months, one of the dominating themes about the 2024 Olympics has…
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Austria's new dietary guidelines recommend eating less animal protein and more plants, with pulses getting their own category for the first time. Eat less meat and dairy – and for your protein needs, choose mostly plant-based. That's…
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The Impossible Burger is now a step closer to appearing on EU shelves after the company's heme ingredient was ruled safe for consumption by the bloc's regulatory body. Californian plant-based meat giant Impossible Foods has passed the…
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Singapore, Canada, the US and Israel are the most supportive governments when it comes to alternative protein policies, while Australia ranks bottom on the 10-country list. Australian think tank Food Frontier has compared the policies…
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Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government is being called on to introduce a plant-based action plan and reform public procurement to make the UK's food system more sustainable. With a new party governing the UK for the first time in 14…
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