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• The NSW Nationals' threat to blow up the Coalition over koalas is as bizarre as it is misguided | Cristina Talacko

  10-09-2020 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The state’s koala population could become extinct by 2050. This is not the time to water down protectionsThe New South Wales National party’s decision to make koalas casualties of a political feud to threaten the successful coalition with the state Liberal party is as bizarre as it is misguided. Gladys Berejiklian is dealing with the dual crises of the Covid-19 outbreak and its economic impact as well as any leader in the developed world. The premier’s ability to limit further
  
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• The NSW Nationals' threat to blow up the Coalition over koalas is as bizarre as it is misguided

  10-09-2020 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The state’s koala population could become extinct by 2050. This is not the time to water down protectionsThe New South Wales National party’s decision to make koalas casualties of a political feud in order to threaten the successful coalition with the state Liberal party is as bizarre as it is misguided.Premier Gladys Berejiklian is dealing with the duel crises of the Covid-19 outbreak and its economic impact as well as any leader in the developed world. Her ability to limit further
  
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• Banking and finance giants issue support for circular economy investment

  10-09-2020 18:00
  
  More than 30 chief executives from some of the world's largest banks and asset managers, including BlackRock, Barclays, Lloyds, ING and the European Investment Bank, have backed new research from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) highlighting how green finance can spur the circular economy.
  
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• German farmers face possible pig culls as African swine fever discovered

  10-09-2020 17:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Discovery of deadly virus in wild boar cadaver leads to crisis measures including hunting, harvesting and leisure bansGerman farmers have been ordered to enact a series of crisis measures after the discovery of the country’s first case of African swine fever (ASF).The arrival of the highly infectious disease, found in the cadaver of a wild boar close to the German border with Poland in the state of Brandenburg, is a devastating blow to farmers who have been at pains for several years to ke
  
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• Alok Sharma promises 'joined-up thinking' on net-zero policy, but examples remain scarce

  10-09-2020 15:34
  
  Business Secretary Alok Sharma delivered rhetoric that the Government will approach the net-zero emissions commitment for 2050 through a "joined-up thinking" approach, but was unable to confirm any concrete policy announcements that would ensure fossil fuels aren't locked into the future economy.
  
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• Extinction Rebellion: Nuclear power 'only option' says former spokeswoman

  10-09-2020 15:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Zion Lights says a car-crash TV interview led her to rethink her support for Extinction Rebellion.
  
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• Renewable and technology associations team up to drive corporate demand for clean energy

  10-09-2020 13:07
  
  UK trade associations, techUK, the Solar Trade Association (STA) and RenewableUK are forming a new partnership to encourage companies to purchase more renewable energy in a bid to spur the net-zero transition.
  
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• Renewable and technology associations team up to drive corporate demand for renewables

  10-09-2020 12:15
  
  UK trade associations, techUK, the Solar Trade Association (STA) and RenewableUK are forming a new partnership to encourage companies to purchase more renewable energy in a bid to spur the net-zero transition.
  
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• Toxic pesticides banned for EU use exported from UK

  10-09-2020 11:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Trade loopholes allow chemicals to be sent to developing countries as well as US, Japan and AustraliaToxic pesticides banned for use in the UK are being exported to countries with less stringent regulations, under loopholes in international trade rules.Two companies, Syngenta and Ineos, are exporting from UK facilities large quantities of pesticides based on chemicals that would be illegal for use in the EU, according to documents obtained by Greenpeace UK’s Unearthed investigation and the
  
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• Climate crisis to cause mass population displacement and growth in refugees, report finds

  10-09-2020 11:32
  
  The ecological and climate crises are on course to displace more than 1.2 billion people by 2050, as natural disasters, food shortages and water scarcity create mass disruptions to global migration trends.
  
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• Crossbench senators vow to block Coalition changes to environment laws

  10-09-2020 10:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Centre Alliance’s Stirling Griff joins independents Rex Patrick and Jacqui Lambie to oppose EPBC Act changesCrossbench senators have vowed to block the Morrison government’s proposed changes to environmental laws next month, in part because they include nothing to improve the protection of Australia’s ailing wildlife and natural heritage.The Coalition last week used its numbers to gag debate in the lower house of parliament and force through changes that would transfer greater
  
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• Advertising sector launches new initiative to eliminate negative environmental impacts

  10-09-2020 10:28
  
  A new initiative launched to eliminate the advertising industry's negative impact on the environment, which has been backed by the likes of Sky and Unilever.
  
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• Choice and information: UK citizens' assembly outlines policy and lifestyle overhauls for net-zero transition

  10-09-2020 09:15
  
  The first UK-wide citizens' assembly on climate change, Climate Assembly UK, has issued a list of recommendations as to how travel, diets, power generation and building use can be revamped to help society transition to net-emissions by 2050.
  
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• Climate change: Tax frequent fliers and get rid of SUVs, government told

  10-09-2020 08:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Members of the public give climate change solutions to MPs, but activists say the report isn't enough.
  
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• Country diary: it is not just the pretty stinkbugs who are going scrumping

  10-09-2020 06:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: A small tree with bright red apples and emerging ivy flowers is humming with hoverflies, droneflies, greenbottles, solitary bees and wasps
  It looks as though it carries a switch; its wings are folded in a triangle within the yellow and black warning guards; its scarlet legs carry it over surfaces into open sunlight without fear of attack; its antennae pick up signals from mysterious sources. This is a red-legged or forest shieldbug, Pentatoma rufipes, basking on a log i
  
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• Greens grow in Europe, but politicians can't take all the credit

  10-09-2020 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  France’s Greens hope to turn summer wave into ongoing tideGerman Greens well placed for share of power despite Covid setback
  The Greens swept to their best-ever results in the 2019 European elections. Winning nearly 10% of seats, the group were billed as kingmakers in a more fragmented European parliament, as the two largest groups, the centre-right and centre-left, saw their decades-old dominance collapse.More than a year on, the European Union has adopted its greenest-ever agenda, with t
  
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• Wildlife in 'catastrophic decline' due to human destruction, scientists warn

  10-09-2020 03:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Conservation group WWF says global wildlife populations have shrunk by two-thirds since 1970.
  
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• UK 'operates double standards' on banned pesticides

  10-09-2020 03:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 32,000 tonnes of the chemicals were approved for export by the UK in 2018, says Greenpeace.
  
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• L'Oréal launches bottles made from 100% recycled plastic and rolls out Maybelline recycling scheme

  10-09-2020 02:01
  
  L'Oreal has confirmed that bottles of Paris Elvive will be made from 100% recycled plastic, on the same day that its Maybelline brand launched a UK recycling programme in partnership with TerraCycle.
  
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• L'Oreal launches make-up recycling across UK shops

  10-09-2020 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The firm's Maybelline brand has set up recycling points in shops including Tesco and Superdrug.
  
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• Up to 48 species saved from extinction by conservation efforts, study finds

  10-09-2020 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Extinction rates for birds and mammals since 1993 would have been ‘three to four times higher’ without actionUp to 48 bird and mammal extinctions have been prevented by conservation efforts since a global agreement to protect biodiversity, according to a new study.The Iberian lynx, California condor and pygmy hog are among animals that would have disappeared without reintroduction programmes, zoo-based conservation and formal legal protections since 1993, research led by scientists a
  
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• Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report

  10-09-2020 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Animal populations have plunged an average of 68% since 1970, as humanity pushes the planet’s life support systems to the edge Wildlife populations are in freefall around the world, driven by human overconsumption, population growth and intensive agriculture, according to a major new assessment of the abundance of life on Earth.On average, global populations of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles plunged by 68% between 1970 and 2016, according to the WWF and Zoological Society of
  
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