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• Microsoft, Starbucks, Unilever amongst new corporate net-zero alliance

  21-07-2020 18:15
  
  Nine major multinational corporates, led by Microsoft, have banded together to form a new initiative which will provide businesses with the roadmaps they need to achieve net-zero emissions by or before 2050.
  
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• People want a greener, happier world now. But our politicians have other ideas | George Monbiot

  21-07-2020 17:55
  
  Boris Johnson’s ‘return to normality’ will only mean more consumerism at the expense of the planet – we must resist itOut there somewhere, marked on no map but tantalisingly near, is a promised land called Normal, to which one day we can return. This is the magical geography we are taught by politicians, such as Boris Johnson with his “significant return to normality”. It is the story we tell ourselves, even if we contradict it with the very next thought.There
  
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• Microsoft, Starbucks, Unilever and others form new corporate net-zero alliance

  21-07-2020 17:19
  
  Nine major multinational corporates, led by Microsoft, have banded together to form a new initiative which will provide businesses with the roadmaps they need to achieve net-zero emissions by or before 2050.
  
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• Apple targets net-zero emissions across operations, value chain and products

  21-07-2020 16:50
  
  Apple has announced major plans to become net-zero emissions across its business, supply chains and products by 2030, pledging to reduce emissions by 75% and develop carbon removal solutions for the remaining 25%.
  
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• #SustyTalk: Goldsmiths' Stu Meades on a green Covid-19 recovery for UK universities

  21-07-2020 15:40
  
  edie's #SustyTalk interview series continues with senior reporter Sarah George dialling Stu Meades of Greener Edge, the brains behind Goldsmiths, University of London's roadmap for reaching net-zero by 2025.
  
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• Campaigners launch legal challenge against UK's green recovery plans

  21-07-2020 15:00
  
  Plan B says government proposals unlawful in light of obligations to cut emissions
  Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageClimate campaigners have launched a formal legal challenge against the government’s green recovery plans, claiming they are inadequate and “clearly unlawful” in light of the UK’s obligations to reduce emissions.Plan B, the pressure group that successfully challenged the UK government over its plans to expand Heathrow, sent a
  
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• Apple's 2030 carbon-neutral pledge covers itself and suppliers

  21-07-2020 14:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The "zero climate impact" promise covers both its own operations and those of its suppliers.
  
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• edie launches new business guide on Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures

  21-07-2020 13:45
  
  edie has launched a new Explains guide outlining the key considerations and answering important questions for businesses looking to align their reporting with the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
  
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• Coronavirus: EU's recovery deal lacking climate spending accountability, green groups warn

  21-07-2020 13:11
  
  Following four nights of negotiations, the European Union (EU) has agreed its biggest joint borrowing plan ever recorded, pledging €750bn to a coronavirus recovery package, but green groups have expressed concerns that focus and accountability on green spending have "taken a battering".
  
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• Greta Thunberg donates €1m prize money to climate groups – video

  21-07-2020 12:41
  
  Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been awarded the Gulbenkian prize for humanity for the way she 'has been able to mobilise younger generations' and has announced she will donate the prize money to climate groups. The €1m is the largest prize won by the 17-year-old environmental campaigner who has also won Amnesty International’s top human rights prize and the Swedish Right Livelihood award, often presented as an alternative Nobel prizeGreta Thunberg gives €1m award money
  
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• University of Hull targets carbon neutrality by 2027

  21-07-2020 11:40
  
  The University of Hull has pledged to achieve carbon-neutral operations within seven years, and will invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy generation technologies to meet this ambition.
  
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• Shell encourages UK Government to bring petrol and diesel car sale forward

  21-07-2020 11:04
  
  Shell's Country Chair for the UK has said that the national ban on petrol and diesel car sales could and should be moved forward to 2030, to ensure that the 2050 net-zero target is met.
  
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• Bankers for Net-Zero: Banks sign up to steer UK green recovery

  21-07-2020 11:00
  
  Barclays and Triodos are amongst the first five banks to sign up to a new commitment exploring how the banking sector can fund the net-zero transition to deliver a green recovery in the UK.
  
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• Greta Thunberg to donate one-million-euro humanitarian prize

  21-07-2020 10:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaigner Greta Thunberg says she will donate the money to projects that tackle the climate crisis.
  
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• Coronavirus: Housing upgrades urged to create thousands of jobs

  21-07-2020 07:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fitting thousands of homes with new energy technology could create 50,000 jobs, housing bodies say.
  
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• Red Sea corals' heat tolerance offers hope for climate crisis

  21-07-2020 06:00
  
  Reefs from Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea survived rise of seven degrees, say marine scientistsThe scientists cranked the heat above the lethal threshold, and waited for the corals to die.“We were heating the water one degree above the summer maximum temperature,” says Anders Meibom, a researcher with the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Lausanne. “On the Great Barrier Reef, after a couple of weeks of that they’d start dying.” Continue reading...
  
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• The magic of the market won’t help the environment unless government also takes responsibility | Megan Evans

  21-07-2020 04:48
  
  If the government doesn’t see funding environmental projects as a serious investment, why should the private sector?None of the suggestions in the long-awaited interim report from the independent review of Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act released on Monday are particularly surprising or controversial, and many are entirely sensible.The chair of the review, Graeme Samuel, was unequivocal in his assessment that the EPBC Act is ineffective, in
  
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• River Thames 'severely polluted with plastic'

  21-07-2020 02:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Thames has some of the highest recorded levels of microplastics in the world, a study says.
  
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