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• Climate change talks result in renewed pledge to cut emissions

  12-12-2018 21:59
  EU, Canada, New Zealand and developing countries to keep global warming below 1.5C
  The EU and scores of developing countries have pledged to toughen their existing commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to enable the world to stay within a 1.5C rise in global warming.The promise, which follows increasingly dire scientific warnings, was the most positive message yet to come from the ongoing talks in Poland. Continue reading...
  
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• Climate change talks lead to renewed pledge to cut emissions

  12-12-2018 21:59
  EU, Canada, New Zealand and developing countries to keep global warming below 1.5C
  The EU and scores of developing countries have pledged to toughen their existing commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to enable the world to stay within a 1.5C rise in global warming.The promise, which follows increasingly dire scientific warnings, was the most positive message yet to come from the ongoing talks in Poland. Continue reading...
  
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• Climate change talks lead to heightened pledge to cut emissions

  12-12-2018 21:59
  EU, Canada, New Zealand and developing countries to keep global warming below 1.5C
  The EU and scores of developing countries have pledged to toughen their existing commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to enable the world to stay within a 1.5C rise in global warming.The promise, which follows increasingly dire scientific warnings, was the most positive message yet to come from the ongoing talks in Poland. Continue reading...
  
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• Climate change is 'shrinking winter'

  12-12-2018 20:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Snowy mountain winters are being squeezed into shorter periods, threatening water supplies and increasing wildfire risk.
  
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• The Guardian view on global warming: time is running out | Editorial

  12-12-2018 19:55
  Rightwing nationalism threatens the global solidarity needed to avoid a climate catastropheGlobal warming is a crisis for civilisation and a crisis for life on Earth. Human-caused climate change was behind 15 deadly weather disasters in 2017, including droughts, floods and heatwaves. The world’s leading climate scientists, in a special report for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have warned that there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a
  
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• COP24 Covered: Days 7-8 - Paris Agreement progress and green buildings

  12-12-2018 18:05
  edie has launched a new series of podcast episodes which will round-up all of the key developments and major announcements for businesses, in under 13 minutes.
  
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• UN chief attempts to revive flagging climate change talks

  12-12-2018 17:35
  António Guterres returns to Katowice to urge China to intervene as world is ‘running out of time’The UN secretary general, António Guterres, has made a dramatic intervention to revive flagging climate talks in Katowice, Poland, by flying back to the conference and preparing a personal call to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping. Related: US accused of obstructing talks at UN climate change summitContinue reading...
  
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• 7 ways that Barcelona is leading the smart city revolution

  12-12-2018 17:07
  Barcelona is widely-regarded as a global leader in the transition towards smarter, more sustainable cities. Here, edie rounds up some of the key technologies that have helped the city lower emissions, energy and waste and improve the quality of life for its citizens.
  
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• Neil Young's made a start, but the arts must do more to oppose dirty money | Molly Scott Cato

  12-12-2018 16:22
  Galleries and arts promoters should be made to feel too ashamed to take money from industries linked with climate breakdownThose attending the COP24 climate negotiations in Katowice, Poland, this week have been greeted by a bizarre sight: an artistic celebration of one of the main fuels responsible for destroying the global climate. Katowice is the centre of Poland’s coal industry, and despite hosting a conference that represents the last chance saloon when it comes to taking meaningful ac
  
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• Daimler and Hyundai bolster low-carbon vehicle investments

  12-12-2018 14:55
  Car giant Daimler has confirmed it will purchase more than £18bn worth of electric vehicle (EV) battery cells by 2030, in the same week that Hyundai pledged to spend £5.3bn on developing hydrogen-powered systems for cars, drones and ships.
  
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• Daimler and Hyundai bolster low-carbon investments

  12-12-2018 14:55
  Car giant Daimler has confirmed it will purchase more than £18bn worth of electric vehicle (EV) battery cells by 2030, in the same week that Hyundai pledged to spend £5.3bn on developing hydrogen-powered systems for cars, drones and ships.
  
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• How Native American tribes are bringing back the bison from brink of extinction

  12-12-2018 14:41
  The continent’s largest land mammal plays crucial role in spiritual lives of the tribesOn 5,000 hectares of unploughed prairie in north-eastern Montana, hundreds of wild bison roam once again. But this herd is not in a national park or a protected sanctuary – they are on tribal lands. Belonging to the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes of Fort Peck Reservation, the 340 bison is the largest conservation herd in the ongoing bison restoration efforts by North America’s Indigenous people
  
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• England stays in 'doldrums' as recycling rates inch forward

  12-12-2018 12:11
  England's household recycling rates have increased by 0.3% to 45.2% in 2017, the latest Government statistics have revealed.
  
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• Shenzhen's silent revolution: world's first fully electric bus fleet quietens Chinese megacity

  12-12-2018 12:00
  All 16,000 buses in the fast-growing Chinese megacity are now electric, and soon all 13,000 taxis will be tooYou have to keep your eyes peeled for the bus at the station in Shenzhen’s Futian central business district these days. The diesel behemoths that once signalled their arrival with a piercing hiss, a rattle of engine and a plume of fumes are no more, replaced with the world’s first and largest 100% electric bus fleet.Shenzhen now has 16,000 electric buses in total and is notice
  
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• Shenzhen's silent revolution: riding the world's first fully electric bus fleet

  12-12-2018 12:00
  All 16,000 buses in the fast-growing Chinese megacity are now electric, and soon all 13,000 taxis will be tooYou have to keep your eyes peeled for the bus at the station in Shenzhen’s Futian central business district these days. The diesel behemoths that once signalled their arrival with a piercing hiss, a rattle of engine and a plume of fumes are no more, replaced with the world’s first and largest 100% electric bus fleet.Shenzhen now has 16,000 electric buses in total and is notice
  
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• Large-scale solar costs expected to fall below £40/MWh by 2030

  12-12-2018 11:13
  The cost of large-scale solar generation is expected to fall below £40/MWh by 2030, according to the latest assessment by the Solar Trade Association (STA).
  
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• Aldi switches to 100% recyclable pizza discs

  12-12-2018 10:50
  Discount supermarket Aldi has introduced fully recyclable pizza discs across its entire range, as part of the supermarket's aim to ensure all own-label product packaging is 100% recyclable by 2022.
  
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• Samples cut around Soyuz hole in spacewalk

  12-12-2018 10:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Cosmonauts have cut samples from around a hole, which Moscow says may have been caused by a drill.
  
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• 'Planet of the chickens': How the bird took over the world

  12-12-2018 04:20 via bbc.co.uk
  With around 23 billion chickens on the planet at any one time, the bird is a symbol of our times, say scientists.
  
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• Climate change: Arctic reindeer numbers crash by half

  12-12-2018 01:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Climate change in the Arctic has caused the wild reindeer population to crash by 56%, a report says.
  
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• How Apollo 8 Astronauts took the famous 'Earthrise' photograph

  12-12-2018 01:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Frank Borman was the Commander of the Apollo 8 mission to the Moon. The astronauts took an iconic photo of the Earth rising above the lunar surface.
  
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• Dracula ant's killer jaws are nature's fastest mover at 200mph

  12-12-2018 01:15
  Tropical insect uses lethal speed of its spring-loaded mandibles to stun or kill preyMove aside cheetah and peregrine falcon, there is a new contender for the title of fastest animal on Earth: the Dracula ant. Scientists have discovered that the small tropical insect can snap its mandibles at up to 90 metres a second (more than 200mph), the fastest animal movement on record.The ants use the explosive motion to attack, stun and kill prey, which is then fed to their larvae. Continue reading...
  
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• Poland climate summit protest limits anger young activists

  12-12-2018 01:10 via bbc.co.uk
  Protesters are frustrated by strict controls on protests at the UN climate summit in Poland.
  
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