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Global Briefing: Top European truckmakers vow to phase out internal combustion engines

Business Green

All the green business news from around the world this week. Daimler, Scania, Man, Volvo, Daf, Iveco, and Ford signed a new pledge to phase out traditional combustion engines as they step up investments in hydrogen, battery technology, and clean fuels. China trade row hits Australian coal exports.

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How Tory Leadership Hopefuls Stack Up on Climate

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Yet several appear to be exploiting fears over energy prices to push climate “delay” narratives that blame net zero policies for the cost of living crisis. Meanwhile, green Conservative MPs have warned that climate policies are overwhelmingly popular, and scrapping them would be “electoral suicide”. Foreign Secretary.

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Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low?

AFN Sustainable Protein

“The impact is already being felt across all protein and feed supply chains, and this will continue over the next 2-5 years and may be longer,” said a spokesperson from Australian Pork Limited (APL), adding that Australia’s robust biosecurity protocols will keep the virus from spreading to the island nation. .

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Australia risks being ‘world’s nuclear waste dump’ unless Aukus laws changed, critics say

The Guardian: Energy

One of the members of a Senate committee that reviewed the draft laws, independent senator Lidia Thorpe, said the legislation “should be setting off alarm bells” because “it could mean that Australia becomes the world’s nuclear waste dump”.

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Chris Bowen tells Cop28 to ‘end the use of fossil fuels’ in energy systems as talks try to break deadlock

The Guardian: Energy

Australia’s climate minister says summit must aim to keep 1.5C goal alive so Pacific countries are not ‘swallowed by the seas’ The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has told nearly 200 countries at the Cop28 summit that the use of fossil fuels in energy systems must end.

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Albanese says Australia needs ‘sharper elbows’ as he signals domestic innovation push

The Guardian: Energy

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Could 'Blue on Blue' rows determine the UK's green future?

Business Green

The COP26 delivery team was moved to the Cabinet Office in a bid to bolster its reach and is said to be working flat out, while several key departments such as BEIS and the Department for Transport have sought to use the focus on COP26 to drive forward ambitious climate policies. That's a failure of leadership.".