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COP28: the climate summit’s first Health Day points to what needs to change in NZ
EU member states are targeting 66% renewable power in 2030 – report
Sunak accused of sending wrong signals on climate crisis as he heads to Cop28
Charities and NGOs accuse government of changing how it calculates climate spending to claim it will exceed targets
Rishi Sunak has been accused of sending out the wrong signals on tackling the climate emergency as he heads to the Cop28 summit in Dubai after saying his revised net zero targets show he is “not in hock to the ideological zealots”.
The prime minister will allocate about £1.6bn of climate finance during the summit and claim that the UK will exceed its target of spending £11.6bn over the five years to 2026.
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German energy giant RWE boosts renewable ambition to 65GW by 2030
A company that was once one of Europe’s dirtiest has announced plans to invest €55 billion in renewables, batteries and hydrogen by 2030.
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Air Canada and Lufthansa look to bolster their green aviation credentials
Solar generation to surpass hydropower in the US in 2024
Solar generation has increased at an average rate of 44% a year in the US between 2009 to 2022 – and new data shows it's on track to overtake hydro on the grid.
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Can we sustainably harvest trees from tropical forests? Yes – here are 5 ways to do it better
10,000 naps a day: how chinstrap penguins survive on microsleeps
Scientists studying the birds in Antarctica have found they snooze for 11 hours a day without falling deeply asleep
Spending your nights sleeping for just four seconds at a time might sound like a form of torture, but not for chinstrap penguins, which fall asleep thousands of times a day, new research finds.
Scientists studying the birds on King George Island in Antarctica found they nod off more than 10,000 times a day, allowing them to keep a constant eye on their nests, protecting eggs and chicks from predators. In total, the birds manage 11 hours of snoozing a day – without ever slipping into uninterrupted sleep.
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