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• Climate change: PM aims for world-leading UK emissions cuts

  02-12-2020 20:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Boris Johnson is set to unveil plans for world-leading emissions UK cuts - but are they enough?
  
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• BlackRock debuts software that assesses climate risk for investors

  02-12-2020 17:35
  
  Investment giant BlackRock has unveiled new software to help investors quantify climate risk and low-carbon opportunities relating to their portfolios.
  
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• China's Chang'e-5 Moon mission returns colour pictures

  02-12-2020 16:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The robotic Chang'e-5 probe starts work to gather lunar samples it can send to Earth for study.
  
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• Humanity is waging war on nature, says UN secretary general

  02-12-2020 15:24
  
  António Guterres lists human-inflicted wounds on natural world in stark messageWorld is ‘doubling down’ on fossil fuels despite climate crisis – UN reportHumanity is facing a new war, unprecedented in history, the secretary general of the UN has warned, which is in danger of destroying our future before we have fully understood the risk.The stark message from António Guterres follows a year of global upheaval, with the coronavirus pandemic causing governments to s
  
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• Humanity is waging war on nature, says UN secretary-general

  02-12-2020 15:24
  
  António Guterres lists human-inflicted wounds on natural world in stark messageWorld is ‘doubling down’ on fossil fuels despite climate crisis – UN reportHumanity is facing a new war, unprecedented in history, the secretary-general of the UN has warned, that is in danger of destroying our future before we have fully understood the risk.The stark message from António Guterres follows a year of global upheaval, with the coronavirus pandemic causing governments to sh
  
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• World is ‘doubling down’ on fossil fuels despite climate crisis – UN report

  02-12-2020 15:00
  
  Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid ‘severe climate disruption’ but Covid-19 funding is supporting increasesThe world’s governments are “doubling down” on fossil fuels despite the urgent need for cuts in carbon emissions to tackle the climate crisis, a report by the UN and partners has found.The researchers say production of coal, oil and gas must fall by 6% a year until 2030 to keep global heating under the 1.5C target agreed in the Paris accord and avoid &l
  
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• DeepMind co-founder: Gaming inspired AI breakthrough

  02-12-2020 14:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The discovery is expected to advance medical research in treating disease.
  
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• UK to become first country in Europe to ban live animal exports

  02-12-2020 14:17
  
  Environment secretary hails ‘Brexit success’ for animal welfare, but poultry to be excluded and Northern Ireland exempted
  Plans to ban the export of live animals for slaughter and fattening are to be unveiled by the UK’s environment secretary, George Eustice, on Thursday.The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the plans were part of a renewed push to strengthen Britain’s position as a world leader on animal welfare. Continue reading...
  
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• Report: Global CCS capacity surged in 2020, despite Covid-19

  02-12-2020 14:10
  
  The total global capacity of carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities operating and under development has seen a 33% year-on-year increase in 2020.
  
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• Great Barrier Reef outlook 'critical' as climate change called number one threat to world heritage

  02-12-2020 14:01
  
  The outlook for Australian sites including the Blue Mountains and the Gondwana rainforests has deteriorated, report to Unesco saysThe outlook for five Australian world heritage sites including the Great Barrier Reef, the Blue Mountains and the Gondwana rainforests, has deteriorated, according to a global report that finds climate change is now the number one threat to the planet’s natural world heritage.The International Union for Conservation of Nature, the official advisory body on natur
  
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• Climate change: 2020 set to be one of the three warmest years on record

  02-12-2020 14:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Provisional figures indicate that 2020 will be one of the hottest in a record dating back to 1850.
  
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• Alok Sharma 'overloaded with day job' to juggle UN summit role

  02-12-2020 13:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The business secretary is heading up next year's COP 26 climate summit alongside his cabinet role.
  
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• A68a: World's biggest iceberg is fraying at the edges

  02-12-2020 13:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  High resolution imagery shows ocean waves are taking their toll on the giant ice block called A68a.
  
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• Green Finance Institute: UK's new National Investment Bank must go beyond energy

  02-12-2020 12:27
  
  The UK's new National Investment Bank (NIB) must have strong net-zero criteria and support the low-carbon transition in the transport, built environment and nature sector as well as energy, the Green Finance Institute (GFI) is urging.
  
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• The Spin | Cricket must make bold climate choices in post-Covid world

  02-12-2020 12:00
  
  Protests at Australia v India against a damaging coal project are a reminder the game must not shirk its responsibilitiesLast Sunday, Steve Smith fidgeted to his second successive 62-ball century against India. The night before, Sydney broiled in its warmest November night (25.4 degrees at 1am), while Smithville recorded New South Wales’s hottest November temperature as the mercury hit 46.5 degrees. In rural New South Wales, bushfires are already burning and Australia’s rainfall for
  
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• PepsiCo targets 100% recycled plastic bottles in Europe

  02-12-2020 11:53
  
  Food and beverage giant PepsiCo has set a new goal to reach 100% recycled content in plastic Pepsi bottles sold in its nine biggest European markets by 2022.
  
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• 'Worst work in the world': US park rangers grapple with tide of human waste

  02-12-2020 11:15
  
  With toilets in short supply, ordure can harm streams and wildlife. An entrepreneur has a nifty solutionFor 20 years, Richard Lechleitner had a grueling task at Mt Rainier national park: digging human waste out of backcountry toilets and carrying it down the mountains.Staff at the park in Washington state grappled with an influx of visitors hiking far from roads, along with thousands of climbers attempting to reach the active volcano’s 14,000-foot summit each year. People heeded the call o
  
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• edie launches new business guide to carbon capture, utilisation and storage

  02-12-2020 10:42
  
  Organisations looking to understand the benefits and opportunities of the booming carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) market can access a free 'edie Explains' guide which breaks down everything you need to know about the technology.
  
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• edie launches new explains guide on business uses for carbon capture, utilisation and storage

  02-12-2020 09:42
  
  Organisations looking to understand the benefits and opportunities of the booming carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) market can access a free 'edie Explains' guide which breaks down everything you need to know about the technology.
  
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• Wanted: UK site for prototype nuclear fusion power plant

  02-12-2020 08:00
  
  Communities are being asked to bid to host the plant, which a state-backed project plans to build by 2040Communities in the UK are being asked to bid to host a prototype nuclear fusion power plant, which a government-backed programme plans to build by 2040.The site does not need to be near existing nuclear power stations but will need 100 hectares of land and a plentiful water supply. Ministers say the project would bring thousands of skilled jobs and be part of its planned “green industri
  
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• Humans waging 'suicidal war' on nature - UN chief Antonio Guterres

  02-12-2020 06:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Secretary General Antonio Guterres says our "war" on the natural world will come back to haunt us.
  
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• Small waters 'can help address biodiversity crisis'

  02-12-2020 01:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts call for urgent action to protect England's smallest freshwater sites, from ponds to streams.
  
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• No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time

  02-12-2020 01:01
  
  Singapore’s approval of chicken cells grown in bioreactors is seen as landmark moment across industryCultured meat, produced in bioreactors without the slaughter of an animal, has been approved for sale by a regulatory authority for the first time. The development has been hailed as a landmark moment across the meat industry.The “chicken bites”, produced by the US company Eat Just, have passed a safety review by the Singapore Food Agency and the approval could open the door to
  
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• The Coalition will lose more former heartland seats to independents without a climate plan | Malcolm Turnbull

  02-12-2020 00:27
  
  Progressive female independents hold three once-safe Liberal seats. Their victories are templates for further changeOn 11 November, Joe Biden received congratulatory phone calls from Scott Morrison and Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga. The office of the president-elect published brief summaries, read-outs, of the calls.This is diplomacy at its most conventional. But a friend of mine in Washington picked up a not so subtle difference in the two read-outs. Continue reading...
  
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