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British investor to acquire UK land under new natural capital strategy
FEATURE: After Europe’s exit, remaining Energy Charter Treaty countries look to modernise pact from within
Global wildlife crime causing ‘untold harm’, UN report finds
More than 4,000 species are targeted by trafficking, with illegal trade active in 80% of countries
More than 4,000 species around the world are being targeted by wildlife traffickers, causing “untold harm upon nature”, a UN report has warned.
Wildlife crime is driven by demand for medicine, pets, bushmeat, ornamental plants and trophies. Out of all the mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians seized, 40% are on the red list of threatened or near-threatened species, the report found.
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Thousands of wildlife species affected by illegal trafficking worldwide, UNODC says
Over half of UK investors eye natural capital, broad interest in carbon and biodiversity credits, research shows
Malaysian carbon exchange to auction country’s first nature-based carbon credits
EU-made batteries up to 62% less carbon-intensive than China’s -report
INTERVIEW: Cement industry over-investing in expensive carbon capture
Cost of compensating coal loss in giant economies higher than current existing climate finance, report finds
South Korea plans blue carbon trading system -minister
England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming
Water campaigner Feargal Sharkey says newly designated sites will join ‘ignoble, floundering list of failure’
Twenty-seven new bathing sites will be designated in England ahead of this summer’s swimming season, the government has announced.
Giving waterways bathing status means the Environment Agency has to test them for pollution during the summer months, putting pressure on water companies to stop dumping sewage in them.
Church Cliff beach, Lyme Regis, Dorset
Coastguards beach, River Erme, Devon
Coniston boating centre, Coniston Water, Cumbria
Coniston Brown Howe, Coniston Water, Cumbria
Derwent Water at Crow Park, Keswick, Cumbria
Goring beach, Worthing, West Sussex
Littlehaven beach, Tyne and Wear
Manningtree beach, Essex
Monk Coniston, Coniston Water, Cumbria
River Avon at Fordingbridge, Hampshire
River Cam at Sheep’s Green, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
River Dart estuary at Dittisham, Devon
River Dart estuary at Steamer Quay, Totnes, Devon
River Dart estuary at Stoke Gabriel, Devon
River Dart estuary at Warfleet, Dartmouth, Devon
River Frome at Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset
River Nidd at the Lido leisure park in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire
River Ribble at Edisford Bridge, Lancashire
River Severn at Ironbridge, Shropshire
River Severn at Shrewsbury, Shropshire
River Stour at Sudbury, Suffolk
River Teme at Ludlow, Shropshire
River Tone in French Weir Park, Taunton, Somerset
River Wharfe at Wetherby Riverside, High St, Wetherby, West Yorkshire
Rottingdean beach, Rottingdean, East Sussex
Wallingford beach, River Thames, Berkshire
Worthing Beach House, Worthing, West Sussex
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French nuclear giant taps CSIRO spinout Hadean to build an electrolyser demo
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Renewable energy averages 95 per cent share in Portugal in April
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NSW seeks a gigawatt of long duration storage, and access rights to 4GW in new renewable zone
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Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal, report reveals
Among world’s top 60 banks those in US are biggest fossil fuel financiers, while Barclays leads way in Europe
The world’s big banks have handed nearly $7tn (£5.6tn) in funding to the fossil fuel industry since the Paris agreement to limit carbon emissions, according to research.
In 2016, after talks in Paris, 196 countries signed an agreement to limit global heating as a result of carbon emissions to at most 2C above preindustrial levels, with an ideal limit of 1.5C to prevent the worst impacts of a drastically changed climate.
Continue reading...Harmony on the grid: Wind, solar and battery projects made to pay for sins they could not commit
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