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• Climate justice won’t be achieved by Scott Morrison clinking glasses with bankers and bosses | Jeff Sparrow

  26-04-2021 19:30
  
  Policy debates about global warming have long been dominated by an elite more concerned about financial returns than cooling the planet“We will not,” Scott Morrison told us last week, “achieve net zero in the cafes, dinner parties and wine bars of our inner cities.”Actually, he might – and that’s the problem. Continue reading...
  
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• Johnson must push G7 to pay billions more in climate aid, say experts

  26-04-2021 17:45
  
  Rich countries urged to stump up to help developing nations cut greenhouse gas emissions
  Boris Johnson must push rich countries meeting in Cornwall in June to come up with tens of billions of dollars more in aid for poor countries to deal with climate breakdown, or face the failure of vital UN climate talks to be hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November, according to leading climate experts.The UK holds the presidency this year both of the annual meeting of the G7 group of the world’s econo
  
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• Climate risk and security risk: UK-backed natural gas project on hold after Islamic State attacks

  26-04-2021 16:00
  
  Developer Total has withdrawn all staff from a gas project in Mozambique, backed by £1bn of UK Government funding, following violence from militant attackers.
  
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• Nature 'more important than ever during lockdown'

  26-04-2021 15:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Data confirms what many suspected - that nature and green spaces have provided solace during lockdown.
  
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• BEIS mulling fashion adjudicator to tackle human rights abuses

  26-04-2021 13:33
  
  MPs have proposed the creation of a clothing sector adjudicator, in a bid to hold fashion firms accountable for labour abuses and environmental issues in their supply chains.
  
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• The cost of air pollution is captured in a child's smile: it's time for 'Ella's law' | Jocelyn Cockburn and Guy Mitchell

  26-04-2021 13:30
  
  As the family lawyers at Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s inquest, we join her mother and the coroner in calling for changes to the environment billThe inquest last December into the death of nine-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah made waves around the world. The photograph of Ella, which was displayed in the coroner’s court and which the coroner described as showing Ella with a smile “as wide as the photograph”, beamed out from screens and newspapers internationally. As the family
  
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• 6 in 10 Brits support 'green taxes', Green Alliance survey shows

  26-04-2021 13:07
  
  A survey of more than 2,000 adults in the UK has found that six in ten would support taxes that make environmentally damaging behaviours, such as frequent flying, more expensive.
  
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• Shrewsbury activists fight to save 550-year-old oak threatened by new road

  26-04-2021 13:00
  
  Objectors say relief road contradicts council’s net zero target and will damage local wildlife sitesA 550-year-old tree known as “Darwin’s oak”, 4km of hedgerows and an internationally-renowned wetland are threatened by a new road around Shrewsbury, which has gathered more than 1,000 formal objections.The £84.3m Shrewsbury north-west relief road planned by Shropshire council is becoming a local election issue, with the Conservative-controlled council arguing that th
  
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• Activists fight to save 550-year-old oak threatened by new Shrewsbury road

  26-04-2021 13:00
  
  Objectors say relief road contradicts council’s net zero target and will damage local wildlife sitesA 550-year-old tree known as “Darwin’s oak”, 4km of hedgerows and an internationally-renowned wetland are threatened by a new road around Shrewsbury, which has gathered more than 1,000 formal objections.The £84.3m Shrewsbury north-west relief road planned by Shropshire council is becoming a local election issue, with the Conservative-controlled council arguing that th
  
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• Penguin Random House targets climate-neutral value chain by 2030

  26-04-2021 11:24
  
  Publishing giant Penguin Random House is aiming to deliver a carbon-neutral global value chain by 2030, as part of an updated sustainability policy.
  
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• BlackRock launches temperature-aligned investments funds

  26-04-2021 11:24
  
  The world's largest investor BlackRock has unveiled two new temperature-based exchange funds aimed at helping investors align portfolios with the pathways of the Paris Agreement.
  
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• Global energy emissions set to rebound as Covid-19 lockdowns lift, IEA warns

  26-04-2021 11:04
  
  Global energy demand is rebounding rapidly from the Covid-19-related slump, with fossil fuels set to play a major role in meeting this demand, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is warning.
  
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• ‘Citizens’ juries’ deliver climate crisis verdict to Westminster

  26-04-2021 08:26
  
  Four expert-advised panels across UK agree cost of reaching net zero must not fall on low- and middle-income householdsKatie Lloyd signed up last year to join a cross-section of people in her area of south Wales to learn more about the climate crisis and agree ways to reduce carbon emissions. The impact of the discussions, organised by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank, were so profound that in September the 24-year-old marketing executive will begin an MA in sustainabili
  
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• Out of a heap of broken images, Chernobyl seeks World Heritage status

  26-04-2021 08:00
  
  On the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, photographer Gleb Garanich surveys the proposed UNESCO World Heritage site
  A mothballed nuclear power station surrounded by wasteland, rubble and abandoned buildings is not what most people associate with a UNESCO World Heritage site. But that is what Ukraine has in mind for Chernobyl. Hoping that such an assignation could draw funding and more tourists, the government has begun a process that could eventually allow it to apply to the UN’s
  
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• Country diary: in the dawn chorus, no one wants to be outsung

  26-04-2021 06:30
  
  Lagan Meadows, Belfast: Straining to be heard over the rush-hour traffic, some birds even tweak the pitch of their song to a higher registerI emerge from the gloom of the woods to a stain of sunrise above the far trees. The meadow is encircled by a bower of song. Thrush species dominate: a blackbird’s languidly phrased minor notes; rival song thrushes brandishing what the poet Katharine Towers aptly described as “tried-and-tested triplets”; and distantly, the urgent strains of
  
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• If it’s safe, dump it in Tokyo. We in the Pacific don’t want Japan’s nuclear wastewater | Joey Tau and Talei Luscia Mangioni

  26-04-2021 02:30
  
  Japan’s plans to discharge radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean is a callous act that would do catastrophic harmEarlier this month, the Japanese government announced plans to discharge 1m tonnes of radioactive wastewater accruing since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 into the Pacific Ocean.To Pacific peoples, who have carried the disproportionate human cost of nuclearism in our region, this is yet another act of catastrophic and irreversible trans-boundary harm that
  
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• If it’s safe, dump it in Tokyo. We in the Pacific don’t want Japan’s nuclear wastewater

  26-04-2021 02:30
  
  Japan’s plans to discharge radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean is a callous act that would do catastrophic harmEarlier this month, the Japanese government announced plans to discharge 1m tonnes of radioactive wastewater accruing since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011 into the Pacific Ocean.To Pacific peoples, who have carried the disproportionate human cost of nuclearism in our region, this is yet another act of catastrophic and irreversible trans-boundary harm that
  
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• Arla completes 'big data' Scope 3 emissions footprint on road to net-zero

  26-04-2021 02:01
  
  Dairy major Arla Foods has completed what it claims is one of the biggest analyses of data on Scope 3 (indirect) carbon emissions in the sector, as it strives to deliver net-zero carbon by 2050.
  
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• Space junk map tracks 200 ‘ticking time bombs’

  26-04-2021 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Large defunct rocket bodies have the potential to break into thousands of pieces, threatening functioning satellites that provide vital services like GPS.
  
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• The salmon you buy in the future may be farmed on land

  26-04-2021 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A giant fish farm in Florida is rearing salmon for the US market in a huge indoor facility.
  
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