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• Sustainable Business Covered podcast: Carbon labelling, office space and new normal leadership

  24-07-2020 17:33
  
  Episode 89 of the Sustainable Business Covered podcast delivers three exclusive interviews with sustainability leads at tech manufacturer Logitech, flexible office provider Workspace and an in-depth chat with global white goods firm Arcelik's chief executive Hakan Bulgurlu.
  
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• Congress wants to fix public lands. It's just a bandage on the wounds Trump caused | Sally Jewell and Ken Salazar

  24-07-2020 16:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Congress shed its partisan colors to pass a bill that will invest billions in national parks – but it will not cover up the environmental damage Trump has doneAmong mountain trails and city parks in our home states of Colorado and Washington, we have gratefully found refuge in nature amid this global pandemic. Never has fresh air tasted so good as now, when it provides escape from a virus that is at its deadliest indoors.That may be one reason why Congress shed its partisan colors to pass
  
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• Genetic impact of African slave trade revealed in DNA study

  24-07-2020 16:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The consequences of rape, maltreatment, disease and racism are revealed by the findings.
  
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• Cadent and Electricity North West plot roadmap to net-zero Manchester by 2038

  24-07-2020 15:55
  
  After the Greater Manchester Combined Authority pledged to reach net-zero by 2038 last year, the city-region's gas and electricity network operators have developed a delivery roadmap for its energy sector.
  
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• Hugo Boss to halve operational emissions within a decade

  24-07-2020 12:54
  
  Hugo Boss has had its new emissions targets green-lit by the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), including an ambition to reduce operational emissions by 51% by 2030.
  
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• ‘Sending animals to war zones’: Irish cattle export to Libya may breach laws

  24-07-2020 12:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Next week’s planned shipment of 2,000 bulls could contravene EU welfare regulations, campaigners sayAnimal welfare groups have warned that an upcoming shipment of young bulls from Ireland to Libya could contravene live export laws.The shipment, which is expected to consist of 2,000 bulls, would be the fourth this year from Ireland. It is set to leave on Wednesday next week from the port of Cork in south-west Ireland. Previous shipments of livestock have arrived in the Libyan port of Misrat
  
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• Coronavirus: Vietnam bans wildlife trade over pandemic risk

  24-07-2020 12:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The ban covers the import of wildlife and wildlife products as well as markets, including online sales.
  
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• Capgemini targets net-zero operations and supply chain by 2030

  24-07-2020 11:56
  
  IT services and consultancy firm Capgemini has pledged to achieve carbon-neutral operations by 2025 and full net-zero alignment by 2030, after meeting one of its key emissions targets a decade ahead of schedule.
  
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• Amount of plastics in oceans will quadruple by 2040, major new research finds

  24-07-2020 11:21
  
  The world's plastic pollution problem is vastly outpacing efforts to stop it, meaning that the volume of plastics in oceans globally will be four times higher in 2040 than in 2016, new research backed by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has concluded.
  
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• 'Meet' the now officially extinct smooth handfish | First Dog on the Moon

  24-07-2020 07:36 via theguardian.com
  
  While it seems a likely culprit Tasmania’s infamous curried scallop pie is not to blame for the disappearance of the smooth handfishSign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
  
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• The Covid-19 recovery is an opportunity for systemic change. Our future hangs in the balance | Rachel Hay and Hannah Ford

  24-07-2020 05:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Now is the time to rebuild towards a society that can mitigate and adapt to the threats that confront us – from climate change to pandemicsIn September 2019, people from all walks of life stood together, waving banners and leading chants, to demand action on climate change. Across Australia, 300,000 people gathered outside parliaments, in parks and on the streets for the climate strike, creating the largest climate protest in our nation’s history.We envisioned a different future. A f
  
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• Nasa Mars rover: How Perseverance will hunt for signs of past life

  24-07-2020 01:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  If there was life on Mars, how will the US space agency's next robot rover recognise it?
  
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• Coronavirus lockdowns reduced human 'rumble'

  24-07-2020 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ground vibrations produced by human activity took a big dive when Covid restrictions were in force.
  
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• MPs to check if the government's green plans are fit for purpose

  24-07-2020 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Treasury and business committees to question whether policies will help or hinder sustainable recoveryMPs plan to scrutinise the government’s green economic plans and industrial strategy to test whether they are still fit for purpose in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.The government will face two separate inquiries into its plans, by the Treasury and business department parliamentary select committees, to question whether its existing policies will help or hinder sustainable post-pandem
  
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