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• Pollutionwatch: breathtaking views will vanish unless we build back better

  07-05-2020 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Only government action will preserve the clearer, bluer skies gifted to us by the coronavirus lockdown Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Many of us will have noticed differences in traffic noise and air pollution during the lockdown. Startling images have come from India where, for the first time in a generation, the Himalayas have been visible more than a hundred miles away. Something similar happened in the UK in 1921 when coal shortages during a miner’s
  
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• Mark Carney: 'We can't self-isolate from climate change'

  07-05-2020 18:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former Bank of England governor says countries should invest in a cleaner economic recovery.
  
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• Finding sanctuary in photographing nature during lockdown

  07-05-2020 14:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Determined to find an uplifting moment every day, the Yorkshire photographer Rebecca Cole has been in search of images that bring spring to her family and friends in lockdown. She has been sharing a daily image with them via Blipfoto for the last six and a half years, but photographing nature has provided a particularly welcome escape in recent weeksCutting short our holiday to Cuba as Covid-19 took off, it was an eerie feeling transferring through an emptying Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in
  
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• #SustyTalk: AB InBev's Ezgi Barcenas on sustainability innovation during lockdown

  07-05-2020 13:11
  
  edie's #SustyTalk interview series continues with brewer AB InBev's global vice president for sustainability Ezgi Barcenas discussing how the supply chain engagement will change as a result of the coronavirus and how innovation can help unlock a new green economy.
  
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• How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the far right? | George Monbiot

  07-05-2020 12:28 via theguardian.com
  
  The filmmaker’s latest venture is an excruciating mishmash of environment falsehoods and plays into the hands of those he once opposedDenial never dies; it just goes quiet and waits. Today, after years of irrelevance, the climate science deniers are triumphant. Long after their last, desperate claims had collapsed, when they had traction only on “alt-right” conspiracy sites, a hero of the left turns up and gives them more than they could have dreamed of.Planet of the Humans, wh
  
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• The Disclosure Digest: edie launches top tips on aligning sustainability with investor needs

  07-05-2020 11:29
  
  With more investors looking to focus on green and low-carbon financing to push the economy out of the slump caused by the pandemic, edie is releasing an exclusive outlining how sustainable businesses can overcome language barriers to engage with a new market of green investors.
  
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• Sustainable Business Covered podcast: Engagement, communicating and sustainability reporting

  07-05-2020 11:03
  
  Episode 85 of the Sustainable Business Covered podcast takes place during a week of action around sustainability engagement. As such, edie speaks to experts from Nespresso, Thai Union and Mondi on how to engage with supply chains and excel at sustainability reporting.
  
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• MPs to probe role of hydrogen in net-zero transition

  07-05-2020 10:37
  
  The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) is to seek advice on the role of low-carbon hydrogen production and utilisation in accordance with the UK's wider efforts to spur economic growth and reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
  
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• Business leaders call for recovery packages to be tied to net-zero corporate targets

  07-05-2020 10:37
  
  The chief executives from 40 global organisations including BP, Heathrow Airport, Shell and HSBC, have called on governments to focus economic recovery packages in ways that enable sectors and businesses to transition to low-carbon and resilient models of operation.
  
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• Spectral dance of bioluminescence in California – in pictures

  07-05-2020 09:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Waves glow turquoise in a glorious nocturnal display from an algae bloom off America’s west coastWaves dazzle surfers: ‘Never seen anything like it’ Continue reading...
  
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• California surf shimmers with bioluminescence – in pictures

  07-05-2020 09:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Waves glow turquoise in a glorious nocturnal display from an algae bloom off America’s west coastWaves dazzle surfers: ‘Never seen anything like it’ Continue reading...
  
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• World cannot return to 'business as usual' after Covid-19, say mayors

  07-05-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  City leaders publish ‘statement of principles’ putting climate action at centre of recovery plans Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMayors from many of the world’s leading cities have warned there can be no return to “business as usual” in the aftermath of the coronavirus crisis if humanity is to escape catastrophic climate breakdown.City leaders representing more than 750 million people have published a “statement of principles
  
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• 'Promiscuous treatment of nature' will lead to more pandemics – scientists

  07-05-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Habitat destruction forces wildlife into human environments, where new diseases flourishCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHumanity’s “promiscuous treatment of nature” needs to change or there will be more deadly pandemics such as Covid-19, warn scientists who have analysed the link between viruses, wildlife and habitat destruction.Deforestation and other forms of land conversion are driving exotic species out of their evolutionary niches and into
  
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• Australia has found common ground to respond to Covid-19. We can do the same for climate change | Cassandra Goldie, Innes Willox, Emma Herd

  07-05-2020 04:34 via theguardian.com
  
  After all we have already endured in 2020 we should know that stopping an emergency is far better than responding to one
  In just a few short months, many more people in Australia have faced greater adversity in 2020 than in the decade since we emerged from the global financial crisis.The bushfires that affected the health of millions, claimed lives and livelihoods, blighted our landscape and destroyed communities were unprecedented in size and intensity. Now the acute shock of the Covid-19 pande
  
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• Australia has found common ground to respond to Covid-19. We can do the same for climate change | Cassandra Goldie, Innes Willcox, Emma Herd

  07-05-2020 04:34 via theguardian.com
  
  After all we have already endured in 2020 we should know that stopping an emergency is far better than responding to one
  In just a few short months, many more people in Australia have faced greater adversity in 2020 than in the decade since we emerged from the global financial crisis.The bushfires that affected the health of millions, claimed lives and livelihoods, blighted our landscape and destroyed communities were unprecedented in size and intensity. Now the acute shock of the Covid-19 pande
  
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• Coronavirus: Boom time for bikes as virus changes lifestyles

  07-05-2020 01:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bicycle shops across the UK say demand for new bikes, and repairs for old ones, has risen sharply.
  
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• How the Covid-19 pandemic is threatening Africa’s wildlife

  07-05-2020 01:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Park rangers in Africa say the closure of safari tourism is leading to an increase in poaching.
  
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