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British PM Johnson unveils 10-point climate plan to spark new, ‘green’ industrial revolution
Boris Johnson announces 10-point green plan with 250,000 jobs
Labour says proposals, some of which had already been trailed, are ‘deeply disappointing’
Boris Johnson has announced plans for the government’s self-styled green industrial revolution, bringing praise from environmental groups but also questions about the scale of new funding, and the planned expansion of nuclear and hydrogen power.
In a move aimed at retaking the initiative after a politically turbulent few weeks, the prime minister said the 10-point plan would create up to 250,000 jobs, with much of the focus aimed at the north of England, Midlands, Scotland and Wales.
Continue reading...EU carbon prices to end 2020 on a high -analysts
Analysts lower 2020 WCI emissions forecast on strained rebound for fuel, power sectors
World's only known white giraffe fitted with tracker to deter poachers
EU Market: EUAs give back Monday’s gains, but big upside seen tomorrow from late-breaking news
Trump officials rush plans to drill in Arctic refuge before Biden inauguration
- Bureau of Land Management begins ‘call for nominations’
- Coastal plain region home to many vital wildlife habitats
In a last-ditch attempt to make good on promises to the oil and gas industry, the Trump administration is rushing to formalize plans to drill for oil in the Arctic national wildlife refuge before Joe Biden takes office. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Land Management initiated the process with a formal “call for nominations”, inviting input on which land tracts should be auctioned off in the refuge’s 1.5m-acre coastal plain region.
Related: 'We packed long underwear and never wore it': Arctic scientists shocked at warming
Continue reading...Virginia industries argue clerk error should not vacate lawsuit challenging RGGI regulation
UN’s IMO strikes shipping emissions deal that lets maritime GHGs keep rising
San Francisco just banned gas in all new buildings. Could it ever happen in Australia?
IMF “hopeful” of a rising international carbon price floor
Inverted cables doom European Vega rocket
UPDATE – Start of 2021 EU carbon allowance auctions to be delayed
Australia drought: Capturing spectacular storms in the outback
EU Climate Law deal could face delay over budget brouhaha -analysts
EU carbon market alone “can’t bridge funding gap” to 2030 target -senior official
World’s leading researchers implore G20 to apply Covid lessons to climate response
Dozens of the world's leading climate research institutions issue joint call for G20 leaders to apply lessons of Covid-19 to lead decarbonisation.
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Big oil and gas have a lot invested in Trump’s attack on the election system | Jonathan Watts
This ‘climate coup’ shows how terrified far-right Republicans and their fossil-fuel donors are of losing power in the long term
Calmer heads may yet talk Donald Trump down from caps-locked denial to lower-case concession, but the longer the defeated president flirts with a coup, the more the oil and gas industry must take a share of the blame.
Fossil-fuel firms are among the biggest donors to the defeated US president and the Republican party leaders who have endorsed his legal challenge to overturn the election result.
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