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• How tough will Joe Biden be on the US shale industry?

  27-12-2020 18:17 via theguardian.com
  
  The president-elect plans to reduce incentives for fracking but has stopped short of a banThe result of the US election has cast a long shadow across the US shale heartlands. Joe Biden wants to make the climate crisis his top priority, signalling real hope for global efforts to avert aan environmental catastrophe and real concern for the shale operators.The president-elect’s climate plans include a return to the Paris climate agreement, $2tn (£1.5tn) of spending on clean energy and a
  
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• Race is on as carmakers shut, switch or sell combustion engine factories

  27-12-2020 14:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Manufacturers’ share prices will be dependent on their ability to avoid losses on ‘stranded assets’, says analyst
  Carmakers will increasingly find themselves in a race to shut, switch or sell factories producing vehicles with internal combustion engines to avoid being left with “stranded assets”, as regulators set a course for a decade of electrification to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.Traditional carmakers are currently playing a “zero sum game” beca
  
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• 'I'll be fierce for all of us': Deb Haaland on climate, Native rights and Biden

  27-12-2020 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The 60-year-old congresswoman will be the first Native American cabinet secretary next month when she takes over at interiorDebra Haaland is making American history. Continue reading...
  
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• Reasons to be hopeful in 2021

  27-12-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  2020 has been a difficult year, but there are some glints of light in the gloom. From nature-friendly farms to anti-ageing worms and even a way of conjuring vodka out of thin air, here are a few nuggets of good cheer to look forward to in 2021The Covid-19 vaccinations captured the world’s attention in November yet, around the same time, researchers behind a trial known as HPTN 084 also published spectacular results. The trial, which took place across seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa,
  
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• Reasons to be hopeful

  27-12-2020 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  2020 has been a difficult year, but there are some glints of light in the gloom. From nature-friendly farms to anti-ageing worms and even a way of conjuring vodka out of thin air, here are a few nuggets of good cheer to look forward to in 2021The Covid-19 vaccinations captured the world’s attention in November yet, around the same time, researchers behind a trial known as HPTN 084 also published spectacular results. The trial, which took place across seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa,
  
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• Fury as Goa’s rare wildlife park faces invasion by rail and road

  27-12-2020 08:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Thousands are protesting in the Indian state, suspecting the coal lobby is behind construction plans in sanctuaryMollem national park has long been the emerald in Goa’s crown.The verdant jungle which covers this steep area of India’s Western Ghats mountain range is home to leopards, Bengal tigers, pangolins, black panthers and hundreds of endemic species of flora and fauna found nowhere else on the planet. The muscular state animal of Goa – the gaur, or Indian bison – is
  
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• There is hope on the horizon, but high debt hangs over Britain's future

  27-12-2020 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Borrowing has risen unsustainably during the pandemic among businesses, the government and consumersAs we look forward to 2021, there is much to be hopeful for. Vaccines pending, much of normal life will return and the economy can recover even more quickly than predicted by the Bank of England and the Treasury’s independent forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility.While bedding in a Brexit deal will prove to be difficult in the weeks and months after 1 January, there is the prospec
  
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• How Ugandan Nasa scientist Catherine Nakalembe uses satellites to boost farming

  27-12-2020 02:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Catherine Nakalembe won this year's Africa Food Prize for pioneering work using satellite images.
  
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• Coronavirus: What has Covid done for climate crisis?

  27-12-2020 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lockdowns around the world have led to record falls in CO2 emissions. But will this lead to long lasting change?
  
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