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• California governor signs law for clean energy by 2045

  10-09-2018 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Governor Jerry Brown signs legislation committing California to carbon-free electricity by 2045.
  
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• 'They dammed everything'

  10-09-2018 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  Hundreds of hydropower projects threaten to harm Bosnia's rivers, protesters say.
  
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• 'Climate change moving faster than we are,' says UN Secretary General

  10-09-2018 21:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Antonio Guterres calls for leadership to break the paralysis on the "defining issue" of our time.
  
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• The post-crash principle for banks: be moral or bust | Zoe Williams

  10-09-2018 20:30 via theguardian.com
  Ten years on from the financial crisis, the sustainability of the planet is at stake – markets cannot survive without moralityThe real question that should mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crash is a moral one: what was finance for, what was investment for, what was corporate activity for, in 2008, and what is it for now? So far, analyses have focused on two dimensions of the crisis. First, whether enough was subsequently done, in terms of new regulation and technical fixes such
  
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• Morality is the new profit – banks must learn or die | Zoe Williams

  10-09-2018 20:30 via theguardian.com
  Ten years on from the financial crisis, the sustainability of the planet is at stake – markets cannot survive without moralsThe real question that should mark the 10th anniversary of the financial crash is a moral one: what was finance for, what was investment for, what was corporate activity for, in 2008, and what is it for now? So far, analyses have focused on two dimensions of the crisis. First, whether enough was subsequently done, in terms of new regulation and technical fixes such as
  
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• How 10,000 steps became your aim

  10-09-2018 19:15 via theguardian.com
  The significance of ‘ichiman’ | Roadkill and PG Wodehouse | Saving hedgehogs | The Mangans | Backpacker guidesRe the “arbitrary figure” of 10,000 steps (G2, 3 September), the number has significance in Japanese culture – 10,000 in Japanese is ichiman, a unit in Japanese mathematics. The standard large currency note is 10,000 yen, the number of years wished at someone’s birthday is 10,000 – and when, more than 50 years ago, I asked my Japanese judo sensei
  
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• 'Internet of animals' spreads its wings

  10-09-2018 16:04 via bbc.co.uk
  A satellite system that for 30 years has tracked animals will expand to track all manner of objects.
  
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• Facebook animal trade exposed in Thailand

  10-09-2018 14:15 via bbc.co.uk
  A wildlife trafficking watchdog says it has found hundreds of examples of animal trading.
  
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• New El Niño weather event likely this winter says WMO

  10-09-2018 13:57 via bbc.co.uk
  The World Meteorological Organisation says there's a 70% chance of a weak El Niño event by the end of this year.
  
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• Bacardi to align CSR strategy with SDGs in bid to have 'net-zero' impact

  10-09-2018 13:32
  Beverage giant Bacardi has pledged to align its corporate responsibility strategy with the targets of the United Nations' (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of an ambition to have a "net-zero" impact on the environment.
  
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• Sony and RBS among latest RE100 pledges

  10-09-2018 12:56
  Global electronics firm Sony, management consultants McKinsey & Company, office space company WeWork and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) have all pledged to transition to 100% renewable energy through the Climate Group's RE100 initiative.
  
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• Gamification delivers more than 200,000 sustainable actions for UK universities

  10-09-2018 12:31
  EXCLUSIVE: More than 200,000 positive actions have been recorded over the last academic year by the JUMP employee engagement project which encourages university staff to carry out behaviours that boost sustainability.
  
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• Gamification delivering sustainable behaviour change for UK universities

  10-09-2018 12:31
  EXCLUSIVE: More than 200,000 positive actions have been recorded over the last academic year by an employee engagement project which encourages university staff to carry out behaviours that boost sustainability.
  
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• One of world's oldest beer varieties 'at risk from climate change'

  10-09-2018 12:27 via theguardian.com
  Rising temperatures threaten survival of Belgium’s sour lambic beer, study warnsClimate change is putting one of the world’s oldest beer varieties at risk, environmental scientists and one of Belgium’s leading artisan brewers have said.A study into temperatures in Brussels and the Pajottenland region south-west of the Belgian capital has raised doubts over the future of the sour lambic beer produced exclusively in the region. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Limited' progress at Bangkok climate talks

  10-09-2018 12:15 via theguardian.com
  Executive secretary says ‘progress was made, but nothing was finalised’. Nations will meet again in Poland in DecemberAn international meeting in Bangkok fell short of its aim of completing fruitful preparations to help an agreement be reached in December on guidelines for implementing the 2015 Paris climate change agreement.The six-day meeting, which ended on Sunday, was scheduled to step up progress in the battle against rising global carbon emissions by adopting a completed text t
  
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• Kavanaugh’s views on EPA’s climate authority are dangerous and wrong | Dana Nuccitelli

  10-09-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Kavanaugh thinks Congress should address climate change. That’s true, but it doesn’t lessen EPA’s authority
  Donald Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh accepts that humans are causing global warming and we need to take action to stop it.  The problem is that he doesn’t trust the experts at EPA to do so and wants to erode their authority to regulate carbon pollution. Continue reading...
  
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• Companies call for net-zero emissions by 2050 to help transition to low-carbon economy

  10-09-2018 11:41
  Ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit on 12-14 September, Cambridge-based Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group has called for a worldwide government-mandated net zero carbon emissions target by 2050 to help speed up the transition to a low-carbon economy.
  
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• Plastic waste set to beat price as UK shoppers' top concern – study

  10-09-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  In the next decade, reduced packaging and increased recyclability will become the main issues for consumers, research showsThe number one issue for British shoppers in the next decade will be to reduce packaging and use more recyclable materials, according to new research.For perhaps the first time, the public puts environmental considerations around plastic waste above the price of goods when shopping. Continue reading...
  
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• As New York and London mayors, we call on all cities to divest from fossil fuels | Bill de Blasio and Sadiq Khan

  10-09-2018 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Together, the world’s urban centres can send a message to the fossil fuel industry: join us in tackling climate change• Bill de Blasio is mayor of New York City and Sadiq Khan is mayor of LondonThis summer it seemed as if our two cities had changed places. London was hot and dry while New York had days and days of rain. According to leading scientists, the heatwave in Europe over recent months was made twice as likely by climate change resulting from human activity. There is also grow
  
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• Country diary: two porpoises arc through the water beside us

  10-09-2018 06:30 via theguardian.com
  Dungeness, Kent: White-flanked with backs the colour of the sea, it looks like they’re grinning as they move splashlessly in pace with the boat before steering away towards France
  It is still before dawn, although light comes earlier in this liminal place, which is neither land nor sea, but a little bit of both. Utter flatness, only the futuristic hulk of the power station in the distance, twin lighthouses and a huddle of fishermen’s huts interrupting the long stretch of the land. I&
  
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• Protesters gather as Scott Morrison faces parliament for first time as prime minister – video

  10-09-2018 03:29 via theguardian.com
  Protesters in dinosaur costumes and holding lumps of coal have gathered outside Parliament House for Scott Morrison’s first day in parliament as PM. Greenpeace activists climbed flagpoles to unfurl a banner of Morrison brandishing a lump of coal in parliament. The protesters want the government to end its reliance on fossil fuels and move towards renewable energy Continue reading...
  
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