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• Autonomous farming and AI-enabled energy trackers: The best green innovations of July 2020

  31-07-2020 18:13
  
  Every month, numerous eye-catching and potentially transformational innovations are being developed to help businesses and nations turn their green ambitions into actions. Here, we round-up five of the best from July 2020.
  
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• European Sentinel satellites to map global CO2 emissions

  31-07-2020 16:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  German manufacturer OHB-System signs a €445m contract to build a greenhouse gas monitoring system.
  
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• Patagonia ups regenerative agriculture efforts

  31-07-2020 16:02
  
  Outdoor clothing company Patagonia has launched new campaigns to highlight the benefits of regenerative organic agriculture in tackling the climate and ecological crises, having launched a new range of cotton T-shirts sourced from farms promoting sustainable agriculture methods.
  
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• What's the difference between weather and climate?

  31-07-2020 14:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why we need to distinguish day-to-day weather from long-term trends.
  
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• Animal stunning slowly being accepted by Turkey's halal butchers, say activists

  31-07-2020 13:54 via theguardian.com
  
  As Eid al-Adha begins, a campaign for painless killing is starting to win favour with slaughterhouses and religious leadersAs Turkey gears up for Eid al-Adha, or Qurban Bayram, the Muslim festival of sacrifice, animal rights campaigners are celebrating progress in their efforts to convince religious leaders, butchers and slaughterhouses of the merits of stunning animals before ritual slaughter.Livestock warehouses across the country were busy on Thursday before the festival began at sunset, with
  
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• edie's Net-Zero Live 2020 goes virtual as part of bumper month of inspirational content

  31-07-2020 13:18
  
  edie's annual exhibition, Net-Zero Live 2020, will take place virtually over three days in November, as part of a themed month of digital content dedicated to accelerating climate action and helping business build back better.
  
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• Beyond disclosure and towards enablement: A deep dive into Virgin Media's new sustainability report

  31-07-2020 12:48
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Virgin Media's latest sustainability report provides not only quantitative information for investors, customers and other stakeholders, but descriptive advice for other sustainability professionals. Here, edie speaks with the firm's head of sustainability Katie Buchanan to find out why and how her team are evolving their reporting practices.
  
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• Credit Suisse cuts fossil fuel lending as part of £250bn green finance promise

  31-07-2020 12:06
  
  Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse has unveiled plans to provide more than £250bn in financing geared towards green bonds and the low-carbon economy over the next decade, as well as pledging to limit financing to the oil and gas sector.
  
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• Spot robot turns 'Fluffy' in new factory floor job

  31-07-2020 11:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Jen Copestake looks at the best of the week's technology stories.
  
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• UK waste incinerators three times more likely to be in deprived areas

  31-07-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Greenpeace data raises concern over air quality and health of vulnerable peopleEdmonton incinerator expansion ‘fundamentally unjust’ say residentsWaste incinerators are three times more likely to be situated in the most deprived and ethnically diverse areas of the UK, it has been revealed, raising fears about the impact on air quality and the health of vulnerable people.Data obtained by Unearthed, the investigative arm of Greenpeace, found that areas in the top 20% for deprivation ho
  
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• UK waste incinerators three times as likely to be in deprived areas

  31-07-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Greenpeace data raises concern over air quality and health of vulnerable peopleEdmonton incinerator expansion ‘fundamentally unjust’ say residentsWaste incinerators are three times as likely to be situated in the most deprived and ethnically diverse areas of the UK, it has been revealed, raising fears about the impact on air quality and the health of vulnerable people.Data obtained by Unearthed, the investigative arm of Greenpeace, found that areas in the top 20% for deprivation host
  
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• Brits cut bottled water consumption by half during lockdown

  31-07-2020 10:52
  
  The proportion of UK adults regularly purchasing plastic bottled water almost halved during lockdown, new research from YouGov has concluded.
  
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• EU invests €350m in first domestic battery gigafactory

  31-07-2020 10:28
  
  The European Investment Bank issued a €350 million loan on Thursday (30 July) to a Swedish company that hopes to corner a significant share of the global battery market by building the "greenest" power packs available.
  
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• Climate change 'driving UK's extreme weather'

  31-07-2020 02:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Last year was remarkable for high temperatures and severe swings, according to the Met Office.
  
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• Australia's 'black summer' bushfires showed the impact of human-wrought change | Tim Flannery

  31-07-2020 02:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Non-native predators and pests, forestry and farming mean our recovery is faltering. Here’s what we need to doRead more stories from our After the Bushfires seriesAustralia’s “black summer” megafires were a severe blow to ecosystems already reeling from decades of adverse impacts. Feral predators and grazers, weeds and unsustainable land and water use have reduced the resilience of nature in Australia. So when the unprecedented fires came, they were able to push species t
  
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• Covid-19: Why Hong Kong's 'third wave' is a warning

  31-07-2020 01:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Until recently, the city was seen as a poster child in its handling of the pandemic. What went wrong?
  
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• Climate crisis exerting increasing impact on UK, says Met Office

  31-07-2020 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Extreme heat, less frost and snow, and trees coming into leaf earlier among signs in 2019More extreme heat, less frost and snow, and trees coming into leaf earlier are among the signs seen in 2019 that the climate crisis is exerting an increasing impact on the UK, the Met Office’s annual climate report shows.The year was 1.1C above the 1961-1990 average and the all-time high temperature record was broken in July when Cambridge hit 38.7C. The record-high for winter was also broken, with 21.
  
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