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• Nando's plant-based chicken and £1bn for renewable microgrids: The sustainability success stories of the week

  01-11-2020 23:08
  
  As part of our Mission Possible campaign, edie brings you this weekly round-up of five of the best sustainability success stories of the week from across the globe.
  
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• The Guardian view on Tories and migration: stop the posing | Editorial

  01-11-2020 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The drowning of a family of five in the Channel and a fire on a ship off the coast of Senegal should prompt action – ‘thoughts and prayers’ are not enough“We don’t see migration as a problem at all: we see people dying at sea as a problem and the existence of the mafias as a problem.” Such was the view expressed last week by Hana Jalloul, secretary of state for migration in Spain. Days earlier, more than 140 people had died off the coast of Senegal, after thei
  
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• Net-Zero November: edie's bumper month of content and events kicks off this week

  01-11-2020 16:59
  
  Spearheaded by edie's flagship Net-Zero Live virtual event, edie is gearing up for a bumper month of content designed to help businesses raise their sustainability ambitions and accelerate climate action – all of which starts on Monday 2 November.
  
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• UK's bid to power every home via offshore windfarms by 2030 at risk

  01-11-2020 13:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Germany’s RWE says outdated regulation is slowing investment in onshore electricity grid Britain’s bid to build enough offshore windfarms to power every home in the country by 2030 risks being derailed by outdated regulation which is slowing investment in the electricity grid, according to one of the industry’s biggest players.Germany’s RWE has warned that work to connect the growing number of windfarms off the UK coast to the onshore electricity grid will not keep pace w
  
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• Chris Packham: ‘People saw a different side to me’

  01-11-2020 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  His daily lockdown show with stepdaughter Megan McCubbin was Chris Packham’s surprise hit, revealing much about nature – and family relationsThis spring, when the country was hunkering down against coronavirus, Chris Packham posted a short clip on Twitter admiring a patch of brilliant yellow celandines on his early morning walk. People liked it, and so Packham began posting daily videos enthusing about spring unfurling around his home in the New Forest. Shortly before lockdown, he wa
  
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• Antarctica is Earth's one virus-free continent: science fights to keep it that way

  01-11-2020 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The giant land is the only place on Earth not touched by Covid. A British team is on a mission to protect it while also doing vital researchThis week, 40 men and women will emerge from quarantine and board the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross as it prepares to sail from Harwich in Essex to the South Atlantic. Their mission is straightforward. They will attempt to salvage scientific operations in Antarctica while also keeping it Covid-free.The continent is the only place on Earth that is stil
  
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• Secrets of the ice: unlocking a melting time capsule

  01-11-2020 10:30 via theguardian.com
  
  As the Earth’s ice melts, large numbers of perfectly preserved ancient artefacts are being revealed. But time is running out and ‘glacial archaeologists’ are racing to find these fragile treasuresBack in August 2018, archaeologists William Taylor and Nick Jarman were scrambling around a snowy, scree-strewn slope in the Altai mountains in northwest Mongolia at the end of an exhausting day. A few hundred metres above Jarman, Taylor and his colleagues were surveying the site, a di
  
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• On the horizon: the end of oil and the beginnings of a low-carbon planet

  01-11-2020 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With demand and share prices dropping, Europe’s fossil fuel producers recognise that peak oil is probably now behind themA year ago, only the most ardent climate optimists believed that the world’s appetite for oil might reach its peak in the next decade. Today, a growing number of voices within the fossil fuel industry believe this milestone may have already been passed. While the global gaze has been on Covid-19 as it ripped through the world’s largest economies and most vuln
  
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• end of oil and the beginnings of a low-carbon planet

  01-11-2020 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With demand and share prices dropping, Europe’s fossil fuel producers recognise that peak oil is probably now behind themA year ago, only the most ardent climate optimists believed that the world’s appetite for oil might reach its peak in the next decade. Today, a growing number of voices within the fossil fuel industry believe this milestone may have already been passed. While the global gaze has been on Covid-19 as it ripped through the world’s largest economies and most vuln
  
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• Car-free neighbourhoods: the unlikely new frontline in the culture wars

  01-11-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Covid measures to encourage cycling and walking in UK cities should have been a victory for the environment and wellbeing. So why are communities so divided?On a rainy Tuesday evening, a couple of weeks ago, Tom – not his real name, for reasons that will become clear – took his 12-year-old son to football practice. Training is two miles away, and usually they would travel by car. But, over the summer, the area where they live in Ealing, west London, was designated a low-traffic neigh
  
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• Who needs SUVs? Dear Keir, walk to the tailor next time

  01-11-2020 08:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour’s leader is one of millions who should realise that large 4x4s have no place on our cramped city streetsThey’re big, they ooze status appeal and they carry with them an unmistakable sense of entitlement – even the driver’s elevated seating is called a “command” position. So is it any wonder that SUVs have transfixed motorists since they started to emerge in the US in the brash 1980s and self-serving 1990s?Rugged off-roaders, built like tanks and boastin
  
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• 'Crossroads of the climate crisis': swing state Arizona grapples with deadly heat

  01-11-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Maricopa county is home to America’s hottest city, where deaths from the heat are weighing on voters’ mindsEven now, Ivan Moore can’t think why his father didn’t didn’t tell anyone that the air conditioning in their house was busted. “I honestly don’t know what was going through his mind,” he said. Continue reading...
  
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