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• Sugarcane shoes and silicon energy storage: The best green innovations of the week

  13-12-2018 23:18
  A number of eye-catching and potentially transformational innovations have emerged that could help businesses and nations deliver on resource efficiency, low-carbon transitions and combat climate change. Here, edie rounds-up six of the best.
  
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• Dive over Jupiter's cloud-tops with Nasa's Juno craft

  13-12-2018 19:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Nasa's Juno mission to Jupiter has reached its halfway mark and revealed spectacular views of the planet's polar storms.
  
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• UK bids to host 2020 UN climate change summit

  13-12-2018 19:44
  Chile and Costa Rica thought to be considering alternative bids after Brazil withdrew offerBritain is bidding to host the UN climate change conference in 2020, the biggest since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015, as part of the government’s aim to be seen as a green leader.The conference will mark a vital deadline for countries to comply with their commitments on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and move on to tougher targets for the decade to 2030, and so it is likely to be a fracti
  
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• Branson's Virgin Galactic reaches edge of space

  13-12-2018 19:26 via bbc.co.uk
  The latest test flight by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic makes it to the edge of space and back.
  
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• COP24 Covered: Days 9-10 - net-zero industry clusters and 'Swiss cheese' strategies

  13-12-2018 18:01
  edie has launched a new series of podcast episodes which will round-up all of the key developments and major announcements for businesses at COP24, in under 13 minutes. This fifth and final episode features an exclusive interview with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability leadership.
  
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• Astronaut Nick Hague ready for second space flight attempt

  13-12-2018 16:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Astronaut Nick Hague is ready for his next space flight attempt, after the first mission was aborted.
  
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• Cyclists 'exposed to less air pollution than drivers' on busy routes

  13-12-2018 14:54
  Study shows people in cars and buses spend longer in toxic air, as do walkers on main roadsCyclists are the least exposed to air pollution on daily commutes into a congested city centre, research has shown. People in cars and buses spent longer in toxic air, as did walkers unless they made detours to avoid main roads.The work, conducted in Leeds, supports the investment in cycle lanes to both reduce air pollution by cutting vehicle journeys and improve citizens’ health. It also found that
  
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• Nasa's Jupiter mission Juno reveals giant polar storms

  13-12-2018 13:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Stunning images from Nasa's Jupiter "JunoCam" show huge, "endless storms" at the planet's poles.
  
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• Global warming should be called global heating, says key scientist

  13-12-2018 12:48
  UK Met Office professor tells UN summit Earth’s ‘energy balance’ is changing“Global heating” is a more accurate term than “global warming” to describe the changes taking place to the world’s climate, according to a key scientist at the UK Met Office.Prof Richard Betts, who leads the climate research arm of Britain’s meteorological monitoring organisation, made the comments amid growing evidence that rising temperatures have passed the comfort
  
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• 'Global heating' more accurate to describe risks to planet, says key scientist

  13-12-2018 12:48
  Rising temperatures have passed comfort zone for humanity, says lead expert“Global heating” is a more accurate term than “global warming” to describe the changes currently taking place to the world’s climate, according to a key scientist at the UK Met Office.Prof Richard Betts, who leads the climate research arm of Britain’s meteorological monitoring organisation, made the comments amid growing evidence that rising temperatures have passed the comfort zone and
  
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• Northumbrian Water set to power treatment works with battery storage technology

  13-12-2018 11:47
  Water utility Northumbrian Water has unveiled plans to install battery storage systems made using end-of-life electric vehicle (EV) batteries at several of its water treatment works, in a move to store power generated using its onsite renewable arrays.
  
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• UK network operators unveil new measures to boost flexibility

  13-12-2018 10:41
  The UK's six local electricity network operators have jointly committed to set new requirements for all new network infrastructure to include "smart" flexibility services, as more renewable arrays come online nationwide.
  
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• 'Death sentence': butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump's border wall

  13-12-2018 10:00
  More than 200 species make their homes at America’s most diverse sanctuary, but construction through the reserve could begin in February
  On any given day at the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, visitors can to see more than 60 varieties of butterflies. In the spring and fall, monarchs and other species can blanket the center’s 100 acres of subtropical bushlands that extend from the visitor center to to the banks of the Rio Grande river, where their property, and US sovere
  
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• Climate change: Failure to tackle warming 'suicidal'

  13-12-2018 09:22 via bbc.co.uk
  UN secretary general tells climate negotiators in Poland that failure to make progress would be a desperate blow for the planet.
  
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• Danone partners with Ecosurety to reduce reliance on export packaging recovery notes

  13-12-2018 08:31
  Consumer goods giant Danone's UK arm has partnered with waste compliance organisation Ecosurety in a bid to improve the nation's recycling infrastructure and boost transparency around its resource and waste management efforts.
  
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• Parker Solar Probe: Sun-skimming mission starts calling home

  13-12-2018 00:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Having become the closest-ever human-made object to our star, the Parker spacecraft returns its first data
  
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