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• Nations agree on Paris Agreement rulebook, fail on climate ambition

  16-12-2018 21:18
  Three years and three days after the Paris Agreement was adopted, the 197 signatory countries gathered in Katowice, Poland, agreed Saturday (15 December) on a rulebook for its implementation but failed to raise their ambition to keep global warming "well below 2°C".
  
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• At last, divestment is hitting the fossil fuel industry where it hurts | Bill McKibben

  16-12-2018 18:37
  Trillions of dollars of investments are being taken out of carbon-intensive companies. Governments must now take noticeI remember well the first institution to announce it was divesting from fossil fuel. It was 2012 and I was on the second week of a gruelling tour across the US trying to spark a movement. Our roadshow had been playing to packed houses down the west coast, and we’d crossed the continent to Portland, Maine. As a raucous crowd jammed the biggest theatre in town, a physicist n
  
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• UN climate accord 'inadequate' and lacks urgency, experts warn

  16-12-2018 16:25
  Agreement will fail to halt devastating rise in global temperature, say scientistsThe world has been put on notice that its best efforts so far will fail to halt the devastation of climate change, as countries came to a partial agreement at UN talks that failed to match up to the challenges faced.Leading figures in climate science and economics said much more must be done, and quickly, to stave off the prospect of dangerous levels of global warming. Continue reading...
  
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• UK fracking policy faces court challenges

  16-12-2018 15:54
  Friends of the Earth granted judicial review it hopes will help alter planning rulesMinisters face a pair of legal challenges to their planning rules on fracking this week, from a national environmental group and the son of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.The government used its revamped planning rulebook to tell local authorities in July that they should recognise the benefits of shale gas and facilitate its extraction. Continue reading...
  
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• I led the National Park Service. Zinke's resignation leaves lasting damage

  16-12-2018 12:00
  Hopes were high for the interior secretary’s tenure. But profiteers and climate deniers quickly changed thatWhen President Trump’s new secretary of the interior Ryan Zinke rode a horse across the National Mall to the steps of his new office, there was cautious optimism, as a western congressman who professed to idolize Teddy Roosevelt seemed like a solid choice to govern 20% of the land base of the United States.In the unforgiving milieu of Washington DC, Zinke and the “horse h
  
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• Sellafield boss warns on nuclear clean-up

  16-12-2018 10:00
  Falling revenues from waste reprocessing have led to a financial black hole for the Nuclear Decommissioning AuthorityThe government body given the job of cleaning up Britain’s old nuclear power stations has warned that taxpayers will have to help plug a looming multimillion-pound gap in its finances left by shrinking revenues.David Peattie, chief executive of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, said revenues would fall more than 10% annually in coming years due to the end of an era of n
  
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• Why two million kilos of Christmas cheese will end up in the bin

  16-12-2018 09:59
  ... and how to cut back on your household’s wasteIt was once a simple choice of stilton or cheddar with a few grapes on the side and the pleasure of assembling a course that requires no cooking.But for many households the Christmas cheeseboard has become an elaborate affair – often resulting in a vast amount of waste. Now, as a new survey estimates that 2.2 million kilograms of cheese from the festive dining table will be chucked in the bin this year, specialists are urging shoppers
  
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• Why 2m kilos of Christmas cheese will end up in the bin

  16-12-2018 09:59
  ... and how to cut back on your household’s wasteIt was once a simple choice of stilton or cheddar with a few grapes on the side and the pleasure of assembling a course that requires no cooking.But for many households the Christmas cheeseboard has become an elaborate affair – often resulting in a vast amount of waste. Now, as a new survey estimates that 2.2m kilograms of cheese from the festive dining table will be chucked in the bin this year, specialists are urging shoppers to aim
  
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• Katowice: COP24 Climate change deal to bring pact to life

  16-12-2018 09:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Nearly 200 nations agree rules on implementing 2015 Paris agreement at UN climate talks in Poland.
  
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• Five key takeaways from climate summit

  16-12-2018 02:13 via bbc.co.uk
  The BBC's Matt McGrath looks back at key developments at UN climate talks that have ended in Poland.
  
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