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• Stargazers watch the total eclipse in Argentina's Neuquen province

  14-12-2020 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tourists and scientists gathered at an observation site in Argentina to witness the total eclipse.
  
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• Sizewell C: government reignites row over £20bn nuclear power station

  14-12-2020 20:07 via theguardian.com
  
  It agrees to restart talks with EDF over plans to build a reactor at Suffolk siteThe government has reignited a row over Britain’s nuclear energy ambitions by agreeing to restart talks with EDF over plans to build a reactor at Sizewell C in Suffolk.The talks could lead to the government taking a direct financial stake in the project before the end of the current parliamentary term in 2024, and using a new financial model that would make the public liable for cost overruns. Continue reading
  
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• Sizewell C: government reignites £20bn nuclear power station row

  14-12-2020 20:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Talks with EDF could lead to energy customers being charged for construction costsThe government has reignited a row over Britain’s nuclear energy ambitions by agreeing to restart talks with EDF over plans to build a reactor at Sizewell C in Suffolk.The talks could lead to the government taking a direct financial stake in the project before the end of the current parliamentary term in 2024, and using a new financial model that would make the public liable for cost overruns. Continue readin
  
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• First case of coronavirus detected in wild mink

  14-12-2020 18:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Experts are calling for greater surveillance of wildlife for the virus after the discovery in Utah, US.
  
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• Five things you need to know about the Energy White Paper

  14-12-2020 18:06
  
  After months of delays, the UK Government finally unveiled its Energy White Paper on Monday (14 December) detailing how an overhaul to transport, energy and infrastructure will deliver an "overwhelmingly decarbonised power in the 2030s" on the road to net-zero by 2050.
  
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• edie's next webinar to focus on onsite net-zero technologies for businesses

  14-12-2020 17:04
  
  edie's next webinar is scheduled for January and will hear from businesses on best-practice advice to investing in and integrating net-zero technologies to help assist with decarbonisation targets.
  
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• AI academic speaks out on Google race row

  14-12-2020 14:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The AI academic at the centre of a race row at Google speaks to BBC News.
  
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• Tiny frog species among series of finds in Andean ‘sky islands’

  14-12-2020 14:17 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Ecological Swat team’ discovers 20 unknown species in Bolivia including viper and butterflyAn “ecological Swat team” has discovered 20 previously unknown species in the misty cloud forests and cascading waterfalls that flank Bolivia’s Zongo valley.Among the animals found were a minuscule 10mm-long frog, a pit viper, two metalmark butterflies and an adder’s-mouth orchid. The pristine forests are just 30 miles (48km) from the capital, La Paz, but the expedition
  
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• Sizewell C: Government in talks to fund £20bn nuclear plant

  14-12-2020 12:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Officials will hold discussions with France's EDF about funding the Sizewell C project in Suffolk.
  
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• Barbudans 'fight for survival' as resort project threatens islanders' way of life

  14-12-2020 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bitter dispute as supporters argue the US $2bn luxury resort project is a vital economic stimulus while critics say it will destroy natural habitat as well as traditions and culturesFrom the air, the peninsula of Palmetto Point – fringed by aquamarine water and pink-hued sand – looks like a developer’s dream.To local residents it’s the scene of childhood memories and balmy afternoons spent picking seagrapes and ambling among the sand dunes – a landscape many fear co
  
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• An 'undisputed urgency to act': Green economy reacts to the Energy White Paper

  14-12-2020 10:47
  
  The Government has unveiled the long-awaited Energy White Paper today (14 December), with green groups welcoming the focus it provides to both job growth and rapid decarbonisation in order to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.
  
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• Sizewell C: government restarts talks over £20bn nuclear power station

  14-12-2020 10:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Move comes alongside energy white paper, which aims to cut UK’s carbon emissionsThe government will restart talks with EDF on its plan to build a nuclear reactor at Sizewell C in Suffolk, and may take a direct financial stake in its construction.The latest round of negotiations over the £20bn nuclear reactor will focus on whether EDF can prove that it has learned lessons from the Hinkley Point nuclear project, and that a successor plant would offer the public value for money. Continu
  
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• Energy Whitepaper: Government confirms £6.7bn warm homes package and UK ETS

  14-12-2020 10:26
  
  The UK Government has finally released its Energy Whitepaper, detailing steps to deliver "overwhelmingly decarbonised power in the 2030s", with a new £6.7bn support scheme to be set up to tackle fuel poverty and a UK variant of the Emissions Trading Scheme to be introduced.
  
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• Energy White Paper: Government confirms £6.7bn warm homes package and UK ETS

  14-12-2020 10:26
  
  The UK Government has finally released its Energy White Paper, detailing steps to deliver "overwhelmingly decarbonised power in the 2030s", with a new £6.7bn support scheme to be set up to tackle fuel poverty and a UK variant of the Emissions Trading Scheme to be introduced.
  
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• Unilever to let shareholders vote on new climate targets

  14-12-2020 09:54
  
  Unilever has become one of the first global companies to voluntarily commit to putting new climate targets to a shareholder vote, with the company's science-based targets currently focusing on zero emissions for its operations.
  
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• UK ramps up climate adaptation plans in build up to COP26

  14-12-2020 08:19
  
  The UK has become one of the first countries to publish an official plan setting out how the nation is responding to the climate crisis through adaptation and resiliency plans that focus on flood prevention and rewilding.
  
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• Ardern disputes Greta Thunberg's criticism of New Zealand climate policy

  14-12-2020 08:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister says New Zealand is doing more than activist suggests after Thunberg tweets about ‘so-called climate emergency declaration’The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, has responded to criticism of New Zealand’s climate policies by Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, saying New Zealand is doing more than she might realise.Thunberg retweeted a story critical of the government when it came to climate change and referred to New Zealand’s “so-called climate
  
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• US to hold world climate summit early next year and seek to rejoin Paris accord

  14-12-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Action points for first 100 days of Joe Biden presidency seen as boost to international action currently falling behind The US will hold a climate summit of the world’s major economies early next year, within 100 days of Joe Biden taking office, and seek to rejoin the Paris agreement on the first day of his presidency, in a boost to international climate action.Leaders from 75 countries met without the US in a virtual Climate Ambition Summit co-hosted by the UN, the UK and France at the we
  
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• Tree of the week: ‘Like the haunted figure in Munch’s The Scream, he reflects our times’

  14-12-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As I take my daily run, I always feel pleasure at the sight of this old sycamore, which despite his look of agonised vulnerability reminds me of strength and compassionMost days, since I started working from home, I walk or run through the National Trust’s Hughenden estate, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire. This was the home of the 19th-century prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, who had a passion for trees and planted specimens from all over the world in these grounds.I begin the ascent
  
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