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• Ford's net-zero target and renewable energy records: The sustainability success stories of the week

  28-06-2020 23:41
  
  As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe.
  
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• Just 6% of UK public 'want a return to pre-pandemic economy'

  28-06-2020 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Poll comes as 350 union, business and religious leaders issue call for fair and green recoveryCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageOnly 6% of the public want to return to the same type of economy as before the coronavirus pandemic, according to new polling, as trade unions, business groups and religious and civic leaders unite in calling for a fairer financial recovery.The former head of the civil service Bob Kerslake, the former archbishop of Canterbury R
  
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• Park staff in England tell of litter chaos as 'Super Saturday' looms

  28-06-2020 18:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Forums speak of hundreds of tonnes of plastic and other waste discarded by publicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHundreds of tonnes of additional rubbish, including mountains of single-use plastic, is being discarded by the public in English parks each day as park managers warn of their fears for “Super Saturday” this week.Officials in Bournemouth said they collected 50 tonnes of litter left by revellers and beachgoers on the beach on one day alone l
  
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• Should we cull one species to save another?

  28-06-2020 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Large mice are devastating rare birds on a tiny island, now moves are afoot to exterminate the rodents. But should conservation ever be about killing?Gough Island is about as remote a fragment of land as it is possible to find on a map. Its 91 square kilometres of uninhabited volcanic rock rise from the South Atlantic, 3,200km east of South America and 1,700 miles west of Cape Town. But even this apparently pristine home to 8 million seabirds has been reshaped by humanity. Nineteenth-century sea
  
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• France's oldest nuclear reactor to finally shut down

  28-06-2020 08:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Environmentalists have welcomed news that the 43-year-old Fessenheim reactor will close, nine years after it was first plannedFrance’s oldest nuclear power plant will shut down on Tuesday after four decades in operation, to the delight of environmental activists who have long warned of contamination risks, but stoking worry for the local economy.The Fessenheim plant, opened in 1977 and already three years over its projected 40-year life span, became a target for anti-nuclear campaigners af
  
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• Greens joins three-party Ireland coalition

  28-06-2020 00:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Corkman will lead a three-party coalition of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party.
  
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