On Thursday 16th September, Rural Policy Group launched its Green Futures report at MHA MacIntyre Hudson’s London Wall headquarters, supported by the most important RED Talk of the year, Building a Sustainable Rural Economy. The report examines the...
The Summer Sessions in Sustainable Finance with Mark Lumdson-Taylor went down so well with RPG members that we have decided to open them up to non-members. The sessions are your chance to ask Chartered Accountant and rural professional Mark about how to implement...
Mark Lumsdon-Taylor speaks to Jules Serkin from Business Bunker Radio about the importance of sustainability in food and farming. Mark and Jules discuss Kentish food, food security, food shortages, building on farmland and much more in their conversation on...
Mark Lumsdon-Taylor comments on Defra’s guidance to help farms reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There are a number of voices warning of a finite number of harvests, some saying as few as 30 and others suggesting 100. Either way desertification is looming, and even...
The WMO (World Meteorological Organisation), commenting on the flooding that occurred in a number of western European countries in July, said the catastrophe was the latest indication that all nations need to do more to hold back climate change. The government...
On 14th July the Secretary of State for Transport announced that the sale of new diesel and petrol HGVs would be banned from 2040. The government also aims to decarbonise agriculture by 2040 – so we look at the reality of introducing electric vehicles into the food...
