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• Roar deal: tiny lion cub found caged in Marseille garage

  26-10-2018 21:16
  Lion cub, about two months old, second to be seized by French authorities this week French customs agents have discovered a lion cub in a car garage in the southern city of Marseille, they said on Friday – days after another was found in the Paris suburbs. The tiny cub, weighing just a few kilos, was found on Wednesday inside a pet’s travel cage in a garage to the city’s north. She is believed to be one to two months old, said Bruno Hamon, deputy chief of Marseille’s cust
  
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• Institute of Public Affairs blasts Coalition's 'un-Liberal' energy policies

  26-10-2018 21:00
  Exclusive: IPA’s John Roskam says government should ‘stop all subsidies to coal, wind and anything else’The Institute of Public Affairs has blasted the Morrison government’s “big stick” in energy policy – a threat to break up energy companies in a bid to lower prices – accusing it of breaching Liberal values and endangering investment.The IPA executive director, John Roskam, told Guardian Australia that “heavy-handed intervention” was &
  
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• Coalition embraces economic vandalism with worst possible energy policy | Alex Turnbull

  26-10-2018 21:00
  We joked the ACCC’s good advice could be turned into a policy to subsidise companies that own coal. Turns out that’s what happenedWhen I saw the government’s latest energy policy proposal, I was disappointed but not surprised.Just a few weeks ago I was speaking with a few utilities analysts and players, wargaming the absolute worst thing a party with just a few months to live could do to Australia’s energy policy and how far they could roll back some commendable progress
  
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• Climate change: Low cost, low energy cooling system shows promise

  26-10-2018 20:21 via bbc.co.uk
  "Water cooler moment" as greener cooling idea is scaled up to help chill homes and buildings.
  
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• Latest land defender murder cements Mexico's deadly reputation

  26-10-2018 18:38
  Body of Julián Carrillo found with multiple bullet wounds in Chihuahua state on 24 OctoberMexico is cementing its reputation as one of the deadliest places in the world for environmental and land defenders, human rights activists have warned after the latest murder of a prominent indigenous rights campaigner.The body of Julián Carrillo, a member of the Alianza Sierra Madre organisation, was found with multiple bullet wounds in the mountains of Chihuahua state on the evening of 24 O
  
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• The Guardian view on misinformation: a moral problem | Editorial

  26-10-2018 18:37
  Those seeking to deceive politicians and the public know distraction works better than outright fraudMost of the recent worries over the spread of propaganda have concentrated on the use of social media: WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have all been rightly criticised for their use in spreading misinformation. Less attention, perhaps, has been given to the content of the messages and the strategy behind their use. The template for many modern campaigns of disinformation was invented by t
  
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• Autumn Budget preview: Five green policy predictions ahead of Philip Hammond's statement

  26-10-2018 17:38
  A new levy on plastic packaging? A watered-down carbon price ? An increase to the Climate Change Levy (CCL)? edie previews the green-related announcements likely to be included in the Autumn Budget on Monday (29 November).
  
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• 'We have a duty to act': hundreds ready to go to jail over climate crisis

  26-10-2018 16:59
  Rowan Williams backs call for mass civil obedience ‘to bypass the government’s inaction and defend life itself’Letter: Facts about our ecological crisis are incontrovertible. We must take actionA new group of “concerned citizens” is planning a campaign of mass civil disobedience starting next month and promises it has hundreds of people – from teenagers to pensioners – ready to get arrested in an effort to draw attention to the unfolding climate emergenc
  
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• Spain to close most coalmines in €250m transition deal

  26-10-2018 16:38
  Agreement with unions includes early retirement for miners, re-skilling and environmental restorationSpain is to shut down most of its coalmines by the end of the year after government and unions struck a deal that will mean €250m (£221m) will be invested in mining regions over the next decade.Pedro Sánchez’s new leftwing administration has moved quickly on environmental policy, abolishing a controversial “sunshine tax” on the solar industry, and announcing th
  
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• Spain to close most coal mines in €250m transition deal

  26-10-2018 16:38
  Agreement with unions includes early retirement for miners, re-skilling and environmental restorationSpain is to shut down most of its coal mines by the end of the year after government and unions struck a deal that will mean €250m (£221m) will be invested in mining regions over the next decade.Pedro Sánchez’s new leftwing administration has moved quickly on environmental policy, abolishing a controversial “sunshine tax” on the solar industry, and announcing t
  
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• Cuadrilla forced to stop fracking as quake breaches threshold

  26-10-2018 16:08
  Shale gas firm halts work near Blackpool after 17th quake is first over 0.5 magnitude limit
  Cuadrilla has been forced to stop fracking after its operations at a well near Blackpool triggered an earthquake that breached the official threshold.The company said it had paused work for 18 hours after the tremor on Friday morning. It was the 17th quake in the area since fracking began 11 days ago, but the first to be powerful enough to pass a regulatory threshold that requires fracking to stop. Contin
  
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• Apple and Dell top green supply chain rankings

  26-10-2018 14:56
  Companies including Apple, Dell and Levi's have been named as the corporates leading the drive for sustainable and transparent supply chains in the 2018 Green Supply Chain Corporate Information Transparency Index (CITI), which has added Whirlpool and Bosch to its rankings.
  
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• From forgotten breed to Game of Thrones: how one woman saved Iceland's goats

  26-10-2018 13:51
  Thanks to pioneering farmer Jóhanna Thorvaldsdóttir, a heritage breed facing extinction now graces Reykjavík’s top menus – via an appearance in the HBO showIn Reykjavík, Icelandic goat is increasingly appearing on the menus of the city’s best restaurants. At the contemporary restaurant Nostra, dried goat hearts get shaved over grilled cucumber, while at Dill, Iceland’s first Michelin star restaurant, goat cheese is served alongside beets and cr
  
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• HS2 construction: Moving the remains of 40,000 people

  26-10-2018 12:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Work begins to exhume thousands of skeletons to make way for HS2 construction.
  
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• Soy destruction in Argentina leads straight to our dinner plates

  26-10-2018 12:11
  Argentina’s Gran Chaco forest is being razed for soya, ending up in Europe as animal feed, and on our plates. It’s the backbone of Argentina’s fragile economy, but has come at a price for the indigenous people who live thereThe extent of the destruction is painful to see. Flying over the area around the El Corralito indigenous community in a single-propeller plane, only thin strips of green are left between vast fields of pale, newly uncovered earth, pencilled in with parallel
  
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• Kellogg unveils fresh packaging commitments for 2025

  26-10-2018 11:52
  Food manufacturing firm Kellogg has unveiled a raft of new sustainable packaging commitments, including the introduction of easily recyclable cereal pouches and a recycling solution for Pringles cans.
  
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• Abundance Investment targets new shareholders to accelerate green project financing

  26-10-2018 11:43
  Peer-to-peer finance platform Abundance Investment looks set to accelerate demand for environmental and social projects across the UK, by increasing its number of small shareholders 10-fold.
  
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• Canada passed a carbon tax that will give most Canadians more money | Dana Nuccitelli

  26-10-2018 09:15
  By rebating the revenue to households, disposable income rises, which can be a boon for the Canadian economyLast week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, Canada will implement a revenue-neutral carbon tax starting in 2019, fulfilling a campaign pledge he made in 2015.Starting next spring, it’ll no longer be free to pollute in Canada. We’re putting a price on pollution in provinces that don’t yet have a plan to fight clim
  
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• Rising sea levels will claim homes around English coast, report warns

  26-10-2018 07:30
  Third of coastline cannot be affordably protected, government climate change advisers say, with current plans ‘not fit for purpose’ Rising sea levels will claim homes, roads and fields around the coast of England, the government’s official advisers have warned, and many people are unaware of the risks they face.The new report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said existing government plans to “hold the line” in many places – building defences to keep
  
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• Great Barrier Reef forecast warns entire system at risk of bleaching and coral death this summer

  26-10-2018 04:16
  US oceanographic agency forecasts 60% chance of extreme heat stress and bleaching Mass bleaching and coral death could be likely along the entire Great Barrier Reef this summer, according to a long-range forecast that coral experts say is “a wake-up call” for the Australian government.The US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) has forecast a 60% chance that the entire Great Barrier Reef will reach alert level one, which signals extreme heat stress and bleachi
  
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• Ultra-light EVs and emission-tracking satellites: The best green innovations of the week

  26-10-2018 02:01
  A number of eye-catching and potentially transformational innovations have emerged that could help businesses and nations accelerate the transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient economy. Here, edie rounds-up six of the best.
  
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• Controversial HS2 burial site dig at London Euston begins

  26-10-2018 01:54 via bbc.co.uk
  Some 45,000 skeletons are being removed to make way for a new station terminus.
  
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• Rising seas will swamp homes, report says

  26-10-2018 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Climate advisors say coastal communities must "get real" about the possibility of 1m sea level rise.
  
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