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Australian students in mass climate protest
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The Driven Podcast: Ioniq launch and selling EVs to V8 crowd
Hyundai launches Ioniq range, including first battery EV under $50,000, while the EV crowd show off their wares at a V8 festival in Newcastle.
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Climate change strike: thousands of students to join national protest
‘Strike 4 Climate Action’ will involve students in capital cities and 20 regional centres such as Ballarat and Newcastle
Thousands of schoolchildren across the nation plan to walk out of class to demand federal government action on climate change.
The ‘Strike 4 Climate Action’, inspired by 15-year-old Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg, will involve children in capital cities and 20 regional centres such as Ballarat and Newcastle.
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Forget 50% – Australia on track to reach 78% renewables grid by 2030
New report says Australia is heading to a 78 per cent renewables share by 2030 on current trajectories, and any smaller targets would lead to a huge slump in investment and jobs.
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Tokyo Olympics venues ‘built with wood from threatened rainforests’
Use of tropical plywood from Malaysia and Indonesia risks destruction of orangutan habitat, say NGOs
Wood from threatened south-east Asian rainforests has been used to build venues for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, according to complaints filed with organisers.
At least 134,000 large sheets of tropical plywood from Malaysia and Indonesia have been used as concrete moulds to build stadiums, causing what campaigners say is irreversible harm to precious biodiversity reserves.
Continue reading...Australia named as one of the world's worst performers on biodiversity
WWF rates Australia a zero due to the absence of biodiversity measures in our Paris climate change commitments
Australia has been named as one of the worst performers among a group of 100 nations due to the absence of biodiversity measures in our climate change commitments, according to a new report by WWF.
The report, published this week during the conference of parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Egypt, examines whether climate commitments from countries under the Paris agreement also offer benefits for nature and biodiversity.
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