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• Claire Perry: UK's business community must help create a 'just' low-carbon transition

  18-01-2019 17:28
  As the UK strives to meet legally binding carbon targets, businesses must help policymakers create a low-carbon economy that does not exclude working-class people or rural regions, Energy Minister Claire Perry has claimed.
  
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• Government urged to address funding and data concerns for post-Brexit environment watchdog

  18-01-2019 15:52
  The UK Government has been urged to equip any new watchdog for future environmental standards with adequate funding and performance measuring qualities, a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has claimed.
  
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• Recalls of ‘potentially lethal’ US meat and poultry nearly double since 2013

  18-01-2019 13:49
  Products withdrawn because of serious contamination are on the rise, report findsThe number of meat and poultry products recalled in the US for potentially life-threatening health hazards has nearly doubled since 2013, according to a report by a consumer watchdog group.The US Department of Agriculture logged 97 meat recalls for serious health hazards in 2018, ranging from 12 million pounds of raw beef that made close to 250 people ill with salmonella to the withdrawal of 174,000 pounds of chicke
  
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• Sustainable Business Covered podcast: Advancing the plastics debate with Waitrose and Co-op

  18-01-2019 13:29
  As part of a week of action on single-use plastics and the launch of edie's Plastics Hub, the Sustainable Business Covered podcast returns for 2019 with exclusive, plastic-focused interviews with sustainability experts at the Co-op, Surfers Against Sewage and Waitrose.
  
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• Finance firms must adopt a natural capital approach to risk, PwC warns

  18-01-2019 12:04
  In the face of climate challenges, most financial service providers are still failing to assess the extent to which environmental degradation could pose financial risks to their firms, PwC has warned.
  
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• Highland Spring rolls out UK's first 100% recycled water bottle

  18-01-2019 11:12
  Scottish water brand Highland Spring has confirmed that it will make the UK's first water bottle made with 100% recycled plastic a permanent part of its range, following a successful trial.
  
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• Readers on coping with Australia's summer heatwave – in pictures

  18-01-2019 04:44
  Readers responded to our request for images of hot weather across Australia as temperature records tumbled Continue reading...
  
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• Why you should be eating roadkill

  18-01-2019 01:30
  Alaskans have been enjoying free, organic meat for the past 50 years. Should other places stop turning their noses up?My mother texts me four photos of a dead moose the week I leave Alaska. It is freshly hit. The pebbled pink brains fanning across the pavement have not yet grayed in the brisk autumn air. The animal will not go to waste. For the past 50 years, Alaska has been the only state where virtually every piece of large roadkill is eaten.Every year, between 600 and 800 moose are killed in
  
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• Bubble barriers and 'naked' shampoo: Six of the best innovations for tackling plastics pollution

  18-01-2019 01:02
  Following the launch of our Mission Possible Plastics Hub this week, edie has rounded up some of the ground-breaking innovations which could help businesses and nations ramp up their efforts to tackle the perils of plastic pollution, once and for all.
  
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• Nominations for edie's '30 Under 30' campaign close TODAY AT 5PM

  18-01-2019 01:01
  Ambitious young sustainability and energy professionals have until 5pm today to apply for 30 Under 30 - an all-new networking programme created by edie for the next generation of business leaders to share ideas and further their careers.
  
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