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The Guardian view on a green new deal: to save jobs and the planet | Editorial
The pandemic is an opportunity to tackle the climate emergency by creating productive green jobs for those made redundant by the crisis
Britain needs a green job-filled recovery from the coronavirus crisis. Unlike Germany and South Korea, it is far from clear that we will get one. While Berlin and Seoul are retooling their fossil fuel-reliant economies to be greener and cleaner, the UK has yet to announce a policy that deals with the environmental emergency and the spectre of mass unemployment.
Unless a vaccine for coronavirus is found soon, Britain faces a surge in joblessness at the end of October, when all forms of wage support stop. The size of this spike in unemployment will determine how long it is before we may return to normal. Currently, 12 million people are covered by the job retention scheme for furloughed workers and its equivalent for the self-employed. There are few takers for the idea that there will be a sharp bounce-back to business as usual.
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Carbon pricing alone won’t decarbonise EU heavy industry, say researchers
EU Market: EUAs drop further from €23 as technicals weaken
Let sustainable development drive UK's recovery, PM told
Business, charity and trade body leaders urge Johnson to tackle inequality and climate crisis
The bosses of Unilever, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland are among 150 business, charity and trade body leaders urging Boris Johnson to put UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) at the centre of the UK’s Covid-19 recovery plans.
In a letter addressed to the prime minister, they called on the UK government to view the crisis as an “opportunity” to tackle looming problems including inequality and the climate crisis.
Continue reading...Hope for pangolins as protection boosted in China
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China raises protection for pangolins by removing scales from medicine list
Campaigners hope the move will help end global trade in the scaly anteater, identified as a possible host for Covid-19
Pangolin scales have been removed from an official 2020 listing of ingredients approved for use in traditional Chinese medicine in a move lauded by animal protection groups as a key step in stamping out trade in the scaly anteater, the world’s most trafficked mammal.
As many as 200,000 pangolins are consumed each year in Asia for their scales and meat and more than 130 tonnes of scales, live and dead animals were seized in cross-border trafficking busts last year, a figure estimated to represent up to 400,000 animals, according to conservation group WildAid.
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Homebuilder was a blunder - spend the money retrofitting social housing instead | Jeremy Burke
We could create a virtuous circle of investment and cost savings, alongside warmer, healthier homes
Right now, we are choosing the course of our economic recovery. We can choose to stimulate the economy in the short term, make huge progress on climate and take care of vulnerable people.
Last week’s homebuilder policy was a blunder, leaving too many benefits on the table, and handing out budget treats to the wrong people and projects.
Continue reading...Huge 3.6GW solar plus battery hydrogen project proposed for Queensland
Newly formed company says it has secured land for a potential 3.6GW solar plus battery hydrogen project in Queensland.
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Infigen predator argues wind farm operator has “significantly underperformed”
UPC/AC Energy consortium says Infigen Energy has "underperformed", in attempt to convince shareholders to back takeover bid.
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Rule changes that could shift balance of power in clean energy transition
Deadlines this week for two critical rule changes that could set the pace of the switch to a grid dominated by renewables, storage and other smart technologies.
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Warwick solar farm – UQ’s ticket to 100% renewables – now fully energised
University of Queensland edges closer to energy independence with just the final commissioning of its Warwick solar farm standing in the way of 100% renewables.
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Small wind spins again as NSW technology wins venture capital backing
University of Newcastle-based start-up, Diffuse Energy, secures $400,000 in seed funding to scale production of its very small, enclosed-blade diffuser turbine technology.
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ACT electricity prices to drop after reaching 100% renewable target
Canberrans set to enjoy a cut to their electricity prices, after completing the transition to 100 per cent renewable electricity.
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Queensland wind farm rejected by environment minister due to koala impacts
Federal environment minister charged with cutting "green tape" says wind farm in Central Queensland “clearly unacceptable” for potential impact on koalas.
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