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INTERVIEW: Carbon capture and usage must work for refractory giant to preserve European business
Two UK carbon capture projects progress towards start-up by 2030
BNP Paribas, French NGO launch impact loan vehicle for coral reef conservation, target $35 mln
INTERVIEW: Europe’s net-zero agenda must get to grips with geopolitics
'Godfather of AI' shares Nobel Physics Prize
One of Australia’s oldest coal generators refused bank guarantees, operating status under threat
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Singapore opens decarbonisation plans for comment ahead of NDC submission
Fewer than 10 of these orchids remain in the wild. Victoria was about to burn them into extinction
Critically endangered flowers get stay of execution after local environmental group threatens legal action against Victorian government
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A critically endangered orchid has received a late reprieve after a local environmental group threatened legal action against the Victorian government, prompting officials to cancel a planned burn of its habitat.
The bald-tip beard orchid – a species with fewer than 10 plants remaining in the Australian wild – was thought extinct until rediscovered in 1968 at a site near Whroo, in central Victoria, where the last surviving wild population has persisted.
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Environment summit taking place in Sydney while greater glider habitat is logged is ‘bullshit’, advocates say
Harvesting in Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie, is just 400km from global nature-positive summit the government is hosting
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Forest campaigners have accused the federal government of hypocrisy for hosting a global nature-positive summit in Sydney while logging resumed in public forest 400km away in mid-north New South Wales.
The NSW Forestry Corporation has started its harvesting operations in Bulga state forest, inland from Port Macquarie. The area is a stronghold for threatened species including endangered koalas and the endangered greater glider – Australia’s largest gliding possum.
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UK may approve bee-killing pesticide despite election promise to ban it
Exclusive: Environment groups urge government to stick to its promises and refuse pesticide application
UK ministers are considering allowing the use of a bee-killing pesticide next year despite promising during the election to ban it.
Neonicotinoids are banned in the EU because they are toxic to bees, but have been authorised for use every year in the UK since 2021.
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BHP, Indian steel giant sign MoU for new ways to make commodity more cleanly
Water companies must return £158m over poor performance
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Britons urged to dig out unwanted electricals to tackle copper shortage
Items such as cables and old tech could contain £266m worth of metal vital for decarbonisation drive, study finds
Scientists have called for people to go “urban mining” after a study revealed that old cables, phone chargers and other unused electrical goods thrown away or stored in cupboards or drawers could stave off a looming shortage of copper.
The research found that in the UK there are approximately 823m unused or broken tech items hiding in “drawers of doom” containing as much as 38,449 tonnes of copper – including 627m cables – enough to provide 30% of the copper needed for the UK’s planned transition to a decarbonised electricity grid by 2030.
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