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London Uber plans to go all electric by 2025
"Clean Air Plan" to assist London Uber to buy EVs, to make the on-demand transport service all-electric by 2025.
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Inside the world of million-dollar beauty pageants – for camels
EU Parliament piles pressure on bloc’s leaders to raise 2030 climate ambition
NA Markets: Major conference zaps liquidity while Golden CCOs plunge
EU Market: EUAs retreat back to €19 amid energy price slump
EEX says no plans to change reporting of EU carbon trading open interest
Shell starts rollout of ultrafast electric car chargers in Europe
First in network of chargers three times faster than current models installed near Paris
Shell has stepped up its move into electric vehicle infrastructure with the installation of its first ultrafast charging points in western Europe – but they are so powerful that no car currently on sale today would be able to fully exploit them.
The chargers at a motorway service station outside Paris are one of 80 European locations the Anglo-Dutch firm is planning for swift charging by 2020, including as many as eight in the UK.
Continue reading...South Africa further delays carbon tax to examine higher penalty rate
NFU urges May to put food production at heart of agriculture bill
Union’s president says bill’s current wording could lead to a lowering of standards
The National Farmers’ Union has told Theresa May she must treat the food industry as being of equal importance as the car sector, with special protections enshrined in new laws covering standards and production.
The NFU president, Minette Batters, said she had raised concerns in a phone call to the prime minister that food production was not at the heart of a new agriculture bill, the first major overhaul of legislation in the sector since the second world war.
Continue reading...Clever crows: birds use tools in same way as great apes and humans – video
New Caledonian crows have been filmed extracting a piece of food from a puzzle box by piecing together two separate rods. The birds were able to display highly flexible abilities to solve a complex problem without prior training. Until now, the ability to assemble different components had only been seen in great apes and humans
Continue reading...Solar Insiders Podcast: Lassoing solar cowboys in Victoria
We talk to Solar Victoria and its pre-emptive strike against solar cowboys who moved in to try and fleece consumers in Victoria’s massive solar program.
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The Driven Podcast: Australia’s electric vehicle market charges up
Excitement is growing in the Australian electric vehicle market: more charging infrastructure is being funded, governments are stating to move on policies, and new models are about to be made available.
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Blood coal: Ireland’s dirty secret | Noel Healy
Burning coal is the single largest contributor to global climate breakdown. Human rights violations at the sites of fossil fuel extraction are often hidden.
The connections between County Clare, Ireland and La Guajira, Colombia may not be entirely obvious at first glance. Yet the regions are linked through a shared commodity: coal. Extracted in one region and burned in the other.
Coal extraction in La Guajira has a dirty secret, which I’ve witnessed first-hand: it is connected to a system of production entrenched in violence, bloodshed and environmental destruction.
Continue reading...Queensland government announces pilot round for new land carbon fund
Major stakeholder groups urge Australia to factor climate into new energy plan
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Patients at thousands of hospitals and GP practices 'breathing toxic air'
More than 2,000 GP surgeries and hospitals in UK are in areas that breach WHO air pollution guidelines, study says
Hundreds of thousands of patients who visit more than 2,000 hospitals and GP practices across the UK are breathing poisonous air that breaches World Health Organization guidelines, according to a new report.
The study found that a third of GP surgeries and a quarter of hospitals – including some of the biggest children’s centres – are in areas that breach limits for the most dangerous particulates: PM2.5.
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