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Biodiversity recovery: Boris Johnson pledges to protect 30 per cent of UK land by 2030

Business Green

In plans set to be announced later today, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will pledge to protect 30 per cent of the UK's land by 2030 in a bid to put "nature and biodiversity on a road to recovery". We cannot afford dither and delay because biodiversity loss is happening today and it is happening at a frightening rate.

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Revealed: Meetings Blitz Between Big Ag and Anti-Green Lawmakers in Europe

DeSmogBlog

The first, the Nature Restoration Law, includes plans to restore 20 percent of degraded ecosystems in the EU. The findings come at a crucial time for nature-friendly laws in Europe, which scientists say are critical to securing the bloc’s food supply and tackling both climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

Instead, communities hosting wood pellet facilities are not only further burdened by pollution and other local dangers, they are also entangled in yet another climate damaging trend — the destruction of biodiverse hardwood forests and the rise of monoculture tree plantations to produce energy that appears to pose climate threats similar to coal. .

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Sowing Doubt: How Big Ag is Delaying Sustainable Farming in Europe

DeSmogBlog

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Reforms Will Jeopardise Food Production’.

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Ireland’s Agri Lobby Has Dodged Its Climate Commitments Through Special Pleading and Dubious Science

DeSmogBlog

Its chair, Marie Donnelly, last night expressed concern at the “problematic” sectoral targets, which she described as “not consistent” with the objectives of Ireland’s climate laws. After the painful financial crash of 2008/9, the political atmosphere in Ireland ahead of the lifting of quotas was febrile. Climate Budget Fight.

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Global Briefing: UN calls for rapid acceleration in European CCS deployment

Business Green

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. The trend now is to shift away from carbon," said Maeda Tadashi.

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EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments

DeSmogBlog

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. However, the taxonomy legally requires so-called technological neutrality, the equal treatment of every technology. But this didn’t suit everyone.