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£3.3 trillion fossil fuels subsidies by G20 countries since Paris Climate Agreement

Low Impact

The Covid-19 health and economic crisis could make this situation even worse as governments decide on whether to spend trillions on rescue packages for fossil fuel and high-carbon industries as well as on stimulus packages to re-start their economies. This is driving up carbon emissions. The post £3.3

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Government announces partial U-turn on water company sewage rules

Business Green

The government's U-turn comes just a day after the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs published a 1,200-word blog post defending its decision to vote against stricter legal controls on water companies when it came to sewage discharges.

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'Climate security is energy security': Alok Sharma urges world to 'break dependency on fossil fuels'

Business Green

But Sharma today issued a spirited defence of the UK's net zero ambitions, arguing that rapid decarbonisation can deliver significant economic, as well as environmental, health, and security benefits. But principally I learned that though this international system - the COP process - is imperfect and unwieldy, it can work," he added. "It

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What Utilities Can Learn, About Decision Making, From The Police.

Seyi Fabode

While this might have worked to ensure good quality water before, it is no longer the case in a world where (energy, health, etc) systems have collided and more consumers know what is going on. The expectation is that a beat cop/policeman can address a situation right on the spot?—?spotted

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Does the WRI’s new Sustainable Food Future report need an update already?

AFN Sustainable Protein

In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. Advancing them is a major theme of our report.” .

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Road to Glasgow gets a little longer

Business Green

The biggest problem isn't the health risk of assembling tens of thousands of people in a crowded conference venue at a time of the year when coronavirus may be making a wintertime resurgence - although that is big enough. But they will be back as soon as Covid-19 allows and COP replacement dates start being bandied around.

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Is it irresponsible or ‘doomism’ to predict societal collapse?

Low Impact

OK, so we’re talking about a definite break with the current system – and as I’ve said before many times on this blog, system change is something that we do ourselves, or nature will do it for us; and if we wait until nature does it, it won’t be pretty. But the current system causes mental health problems already.

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