Actions in the Netherlands
What Happened In The Netherlands Until Now?
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*** Convenant signed ***
18th November 2022: Netherlands becomes the 6th country in the world with an official peat reduction strategy for the substrate sector! We are honoured to be one of the signing parties of this groundbreaking agreement and will be part of this process as member of the steering group.
Full description and the English translation and the publication in the government gazette..
The Netherlands is the biggest peat importer in the EU. Until recently, there was hardly any awareness of this ecological vandalism.
Na jaren winterslaap werd het onderwerp in 2021 door ons opgepakt!
- ... and Tuin en Landschap for articles about peat.....
- ... and we were named in the Libelle.
- We signed the Peat Convenant! This even reached the international press. See this article in het Duitse vakblad taspo..
- The convenant is mentioned in many journals and newsletters. We´re happy that we could notify the German trade journal taspo and in the newsletter of NL Greenabel about this contract.
- For this article , Karin was interviewed by RTLnieuws.
- A large investigative journalism study by Nathalie Bertrams, Ingrid Gercama, and Tristen Taylor reveals tricks of the peat industry. See here the German original article and our English translation.
- We ontvingen 2500 euro subsidie voor de turfvrije aanplant van fruitbomen van het MAEX sociaal fonds.
- Philipp wrote several articles arguing that academic institutions shouldn´t collaborate with fossil fuel companies (NRC Handelsblad and C2W).
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