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‘There's a direct relationship’: Brazil meat plants linked to spread of Covid-19
Conditions at plants contributed to transmission of virus, experts say, as country remains second only to US for deaths
Brazilian meat plants helped spread Covid-19 in at least three different places across the country as the virus continues to migrate from big cities to the country’s vast interior, labour law prosecutors have said.
At the beginning of this week the country was second only to the US with 1.88 million confirmed Covid-19 cases and 72,833 deaths .
Its powerful agribusiness sector is allied with the country’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has dismissed the pandemic as a “little flu”. The beef sector is worth $26bn (£20.7bn), according to the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA), while its chicken industry is worth another $8bn.
Meat plants have stayed open during the pandemic, and staff work closely together, often in refrigerated areas. Other countries, including the US, Canada, Ireland and Germany, have also seen clusters around slaughterhouses.
NZ Market: NZUs climb back above NZ$32 as sellers confident to sit back
'Icing on the cake': Native Americans hail ruling that east Oklahoma is tribal land
Oklahoma no longer has legal authority to prosecute cases involving Native Americans across about 3m acres
The news alert about a ruling from US supreme court took Kimberly Tiger by surprise.
On Thursday, the court ruled that the federal government never formally disestablished the expansive reservation that is home to Tiger’s tribe, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, in Oklahoma.
Continue reading...Australian carbon industry pushes back against Safeguard crediting proposal
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Queensland moves to ban single-use plastic straws and plates in bid to save marine life
Plan to stamp out ‘lethal’ plastic, which gets stuck in airways of wildlife and pollutes waterways, follows South Australia’s proposal
The Queensland government will move to ban plastic straws, cutlery, stirrers and plates in a bid to stem the destructive effects of plastic on marine life and waterways.
The government introduced legislation on Wednesday that would ban the single-use items, making Queensland the second state after South Australia to put such a proposal before parliament.
Continue reading...Governments put 'green recovery' on the backburner
G20 countries aim their pandemic bailout spending at fossil fuel industries, leaving Paris climate change targets in doubt
Governments are spending vastly more in support of fossil fuels than on low-carbon energy in rescue packages triggered by the coronavirus crisis, new data has shown, despite rhetoric from many countries in support of a “green recovery”.
Data from the Energy Policy Tracker, a new research effort by several civil society groups, shows that at least $151bn (£120bn) of bailout cash has been spent or earmarked so far to support fossil fuels by the G20 group of large economies. Only about a fifth of this spending is conditional on environmental requirements such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions or cleaning up pollution.
Continue reading...Logging Victoria's burnt forest would hurt 30 threatened species, study says
Conservationists say timber millers may be ‘subject to legal exposure’ if they accept logs from VicForests ‘salvage logging’
A proposal by Victoria’s state-owned forestry agency to log forest burnt in the summer bushfires would affect habitat for more than 30 threatened species, according to analysis by The Wilderness Society.
VicForests has proposed opening 59 new coupes in the state’s north-east and East Gippsland regions for so-called salvage logging of burnt native forests.
Continue reading...UNSW busts myth on energy returns, says renewables will boost economy
UNSW study disproves popular nuclear lobby theory that shift to renewables will damage the macro-economy by consuming too much global energy generation.
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UK energy efficiency push offers just a third of the investment needed, says report
IPPR says 12m homes will need to be refitted to meet net-zero targets but £3bn earmarked is not nearly enough
The government’s new plans to upgrade the energy efficiency of homes will make only a fraction of the progress needed to help the UK meet its legally binding climate targets, according to a new study.
A report by IPPR, a left-leaning thinktank, has found at least 12 million homes will need to be fitted with low-carbon heat pumps and energy efficiency measures, such as insulation, over the next 30 years for the UK to meet its net zero targets.
Continue reading...UK government planning new green investment bank
Move to help finance climate ambitions follows calls from campaigners and economists
The UK government is poised to reveal plans for a new state-backed green bank to help finance Britain’s climate ambitions, three years after ministers agreed to sell the UK’s Green Investment Bank.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the energy minister, said that he expects the government to set out how it plans to create a successor to the Green Investment Bank “in the not-too-distant future”.
Continue reading...UNSW secures $4.9m for new hydrogen research hub
University of New South Wales wins funding to host new research hub aimed at accelerating commercialisation of renewable hydrogen.
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With no work in lockdown, tour operators helped find coral bleaching on Western Australia’s remote reefs
Solar Insiders Podcast: Origin’s bet on self-installing plug and play batteries
US-based Orison, backed by Origin, is developing plug-and-play batteries that can be installed by the householder and hopes to trial it in Australia this year.
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UNSW receives $4.9m funding for new ARC Training Centre for The Global Hydrogen Economy
The new research centre will aid development of new cost-effective hydrogen technologies – placing Australia firmly at the forefront of the hydrogen economy.
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CEC, Australian Hydrogen Council to accelerate renewable energy future
The Clean Energy Council has signed a MoU with the Australian Hydrogen Council as the fuel’s role in Australia’s rapidly-growing renewable energy mix continues to grow.
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