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• Trump 'believes climate is changing', says UN ambassador Nikki Haley

  03-06-2017 22:05 via theguardian.com
  
  White House has dodged declaring president’s view on climate change, but Haley says leaving Paris accord ‘doesn’t mean we don’t care about the environment’ Donald Trump “believes the climate is changing” partly because of pollution, according to the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley.
  Speaking on the CNN programme State of the Union, due to air on Sunday, Haley was seeking to define the president’s thinking about climate change in the
  
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• James Mattis asks US allies to 'bear with us' amid backlash over isolationism

  03-06-2017 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
  The secretary of defense added it would be a ‘crummy world’ if Americans retreat, as US leadership and international commitment came under question US secretary of defense James Mattis has urged allies to “bear with us”, noting it would be a “crummy world” if Americans retreated into isolationism.Related: Why Trump's attempt to pit Pittsburgh against Paris is absurd | Lucia GravesContinue reading...
  
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• Trump climate deal: Modi vows to go beyond Paris accord

  03-06-2017 16:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Indian and French leaders pledge to fight climate change together and "protect Mother Earth".
  
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• Not green enough

  03-06-2017 15:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Only three countries have not signed up to the Paris agreement - but for very different reasons.
  
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• 'Make our planet great again': Macron's response to Trump is praised

  03-06-2017 14:47 via theguardian.com
  
  New French president has been confident and sure-footed in first weeks, say analystsSwift, smart and typically self-assured, Emmanuel Macron’s response to Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate accords confirmed a near-faultless debut on the international stage for France’s new president, analysts said. “Make our planet great again,” Macron, a diplomatic novice not yet 40, exhorted the world, recycling Trump’s own slogan in an unpreced
  
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• Michael Bloomberg: ‘US will meet its Paris commitments’ – video

  03-06-2017 13:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Former New York mayor says during surprise trip to Paris on Friday that Americans ‘don’t need Washington to meet our Paris commitments’. Bloomberg, who is the UN’s special envoy for cities and climate change, says cities, states and businesses will instead step in to ensure the targets are metMichael Bloomberg: US states and businesses will still meet Paris targetsContinue reading...
  
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• 'Make our planet great again': Macron praised for response to Trump

  03-06-2017 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  New French president has been confident and sure-footed in first weeks, say analystsSwift, smart and typically self-assured, Emmanuel Macron’s response to Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate accords confirmed a near-faultless debut on the international stage for France’s new president, analysts said. “Make our planet great again,” Macron, a diplomatic novice not yet 40, exhorted the world, recycling Trump’s own slogan in an unpreced
  
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• A sinister bird arrows into the river

  03-06-2017 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Teifi Marshes, Pembrokeshire Bilidowcar the cormorant’s called in Welsh – Billy the DuckerBound for hides in the Teifi Marshes reserve, I paused to lean against railings on the riverside path and a cormorant arrowed into view, threw up its broad, webbed feet to brake, and touched down on the water. Seeing it reminded me of a morning 20 years ago in a fishing boat careening into Roonagh in County Mayo on green combers that were the aftermath of an Easter storm. A cormorant had kept us
  
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• Michael Bloomberg: US states and businesses will still meet Paris targets

  03-06-2017 06:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Former New York mayor, now UN cities and climate ambassador, says Trump may have withdrawn from Paris accord but American people haven’t The United States will meet its Paris accord greenhouse gas targets despite Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has said.
  A decision by President Trump to pull the US out of Parisand seek renegotiated terms “fair” to America has drawn widespread international condemnation. Continue readin
  
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• Great Barrier Reef: Australia must act urgently on water quality, says Unesco

  03-06-2017 05:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Draft decision says Australia would not, at this rate, meet interim or long-term targets in the Reef 2050 report Unesco has expressed “serious concern” about the impact of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef and warned Australia it will not meet the targets of the Reef 2050 report without considerable work to improve water quality.The criticism was contained in a draft decision published as part of the agenda for the upcoming world heritage committee meeting (pdf), which will t
  
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• It's way past time to speak truth to climate arguments this stupid | Lenore Taylor

  03-06-2017 02:16 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s clearer than ever the economic interests Trump claims to defend can only be served by acting on global warmingFor precious decades experts have explained, over and over, that the science of climate change is incontrovertible, the consequences of blindly sticking with fossil fuels catastrophic and the costs of inaction far higher than switching to a low-emissions economy.But these facts had no impact on the sceptics, who cling to a worldview where they find “alternative facts&rdq
  
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• Poison pill

  03-06-2017 01:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Canadian doctor says one short letter managed to convince doctors that opioids were safe.
  
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• Beaver return 'benefits environment'

  03-06-2017 01:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A researcher says re-introducing beavers in England would help water supplies and prevent floods.
  
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• The benefits of beavers

  03-06-2017 01:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  They can be controversial, but scientists say beavers are good for the environment and biodiversity.
  
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• Question Time leaders' special: May under fire over NHS and education – live

  03-06-2017 00:45 via theguardian.com
  
  All the day’s campaign news, as the Conservative and Labour leaders appear on BBC1’s Question Time and the Guardian comes out for LabourThe Snap: sign up for our daily election email – and read today’s
  Lunchtime summaryMay ‘weak and feeble and spineless’ over climate change, says MilibandQuestion Time leaders’ special - Verdict from the Twitter commentariatQuestion Time - who won? 11.36pm BSTThe audience member who challenged Theresa May over her record
  
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• US has nothing to apologize for on climate change, says defiant EPA chief

  03-06-2017 00:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Scott Pruitt insists America retains a seat at the negotiating tablePruitt refuses to say whether Trump believes climate change is realThe head of the Environmental Protection Agency has said America has nothing to apologise for on climate change and retains a seat at the negotiating table, claiming: “After all, we’re the United States.” Related: 'Outmoded, irrelevant vision': Pittsburghers reject Trump's pledgeContinue reading...
  
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