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• Climate change: China aims for 'carbon neutrality by 2060'

  22-09-2020 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  China's surprise announcement of a long-term goal to curb emissions boosts UN climate talks.
  
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• By 2020 standards, Angus Taylor's low-emissions technology statement is not really a climate policy | Adam Morton

  22-09-2020 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Australians are just expected to trust the minister and his advisers to successfully pick winners deserving a crack at $18bn in taxpayers’ money
  The first point to make about Angus Taylor’s low-emissions technology statement, launched on Tuesday as the Morrison government’s primary response to the climate crisis, is an obvious one: it would be terrific if it worked.We should all hope the technologies that Taylor says the government will prioritise – hydrogen, energy stora
  
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• EU's farm animals 'produce more emissions than cars and vans combined'

  22-09-2020 17:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Greenpeace says bloc must get a grip on reducing greenhouse gases from livestock or risk missing Paris agreement targetsCows, pigs and other farm livestock in Europe are producing more greenhouse gases every year than all of the bloc’s cars and vans put together, when the impact of their feed is taken into account, according to a new analysis by Greenpeace.The increase in meat and dairy production in Europe over the past decade has made farming a much greater source of emissions, but while
  
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• Two weeks left to register: edie's next masterclass on energy data and the road to net-zero

  22-09-2020 17:23
  
  edie's next masterclass will take place on Tuesday 6 October and will explore how businesses can improve energy data monitoring and measurement and how this can assist with the wider net-zero transition.
  
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• #SustyTalk: WWF's Raymond Dhirani on financing the green recovery

  22-09-2020 16:13
  
  edie's SustyTalk series continues with WWF UK's head of sustainable finance Raymond Dhirani discussing the role of the finance sector in creating a Covid-19 recovery movement that tackles the twin climate and nature crises.
  
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• Green plans diluted as government protects farmers

  22-09-2020 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A "green" fund to protect wildlife on England’s farms may be under threat, BBC News has learned.
  
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• Consumer goods giants worth $1.8trn team up to tackle deforestation

  22-09-2020 15:01
  
  Nestle, Mars and Unilever are among the 17 multinational consumer goods firms leading a new corporate coalition dedicated to tackling deforestation, forest degradation and land conversion in supply chains.
  
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• World's largest cement manufacturer commits to science-based targets and net-zero pathway

  22-09-2020 12:58
  
  The world's largest cement manufacturer, LafargeHolcim, has committed to becoming the first global building materials company to have targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
  
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• Animals farmed: US ends UK beef ban, chicken culls and 12-storey pig farms

  22-09-2020 12:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the webThe US has imported British beef for the first time since banning it in 1996 after the BSE outbreak. In 1996, scientists linked BSE found in cattle to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. The UK government said the restarted US beef trade could be worth an estimated £66m in export opportunities for farmers over the next five years.
  Taiwan is to lift its res
  
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• Princes turns to QR codes and blockchain for sustainability storytelling

  22-09-2020 11:45
  
  Princes is printing QR codes on its Napolina brand tomato products which, when scanned, will provide consumers with information about supply chain sustainability.
  
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• Microsoft to become water positive by 2030

  22-09-2020 11:26
  
  Microsoft has built on its ambitious emissions reduction targets by committing to becoming a "water positive" business by 2030, pledging to replenish more water than it uses.
  
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• Nasa outlines plan for first woman on Moon by 2024

  22-09-2020 11:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US space agency (Nasa) formally outlines its $28bn plan to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024.
  
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• A third of my country was just underwater. The world must act on climate | Sheikh Hasina

  22-09-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The climate crisis and Covid-19 are crying out for international cooperation, writes the prime minister of BangladeshOne-third of my country was underwater last month. The heaviest rains in almost a decade began and have still not abated. More than 1.5 million Bangladeshis are displaced; tens of thousands of hectares of paddy fields have been washed away. Millions of my compatriots will need food aid this year.Calamities, alas, never strike alone. The floods, which come in the wake of widespread
  
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• PepsiCo targets 100% renewable electricity globally

  22-09-2020 10:13
  
  PepsiCo has confirmed it has joined the Climate Group's RE100 initiative, pledging to source 100% renewable electricity across its operations by 2030, a move that could reduce the manufacturing giant's carbon footprint by 2.5 million tonnes.
  
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• Facebook suspends environmental groups despite vow to fight misinformation

  22-09-2020 09:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Facebook blames mistake in system for restrictions on groups including Greenpeace USAFacebook has suspended the accounts of several environmental organizations less than a week after launching an initiative it said would counter a tide of misinformation over climate science on the platform.Groups such as Greenpeace USA, Climate Hawks Vote and Rainforest Action Network were among those blocked from posting or sending messages on Facebook over the weekend. Activists say hundreds of other individua
  
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• We love... Fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures

  22-09-2020 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Support Help Refugees with Choose Love T-shirts, get cosy in Hush’s cheerful cardigan, and donate to Refuge through John Lewis’s new capsule collection Continue reading...
  
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• Big businesses face mandatory digital modern slavery reporting

  22-09-2020 02:02
  
  The UK Government has made the first major changes to the Modern Slavery Act since its introduction in 2015, extending requirements to public bodies including local authorities and tightening rules for big businesses.
  
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• Wild maple trees 'in serious need of conservation'

  22-09-2020 01:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  One in five species of maple is threatened in their natural habitats, an extinction study says.
  
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• Why do farmers get paid by taxpayers?

  22-09-2020 01:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK farmers are complaining of a lack of clarity over how they will be rewarded for tending the land.
  
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