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Sadiq Khan criticised for backtracking on pledge for London public energy company
Mayor is letting down Londoners by leaving out a manifesto pledge to create a not-for-profit energy company from his new environment strategy, say green groups
Campaigners have condemned the mayor of London’s new environment strategy for falling short by failing to announce the establishment of a publicly owned energy company for Londoners, one of his manifesto promises.
Sadiq Khan published his environment policy on Friday, which aims to turn the capital into a zero waste and zero emissions city by 2050 and ensure that more than half of the city is covered in parks and green spaces in the same time frame.
Continue reading...Ivory, fossil fuels and flesh-eating sea creatures – green news roundup
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Continue reading...Grouse moors 'to blame for Scotland's disappearing raptors'
As estates gear up for Glorious Twelfth, wildlife crime expert talks of direct link between grouse moors and persecution of birds of prey
Grouse moors are to blame for persecuting endangered birds of prey in the Scottish Highlands and Uplands, according to a wildlife crime expert.
Ian Thomson, the head of investigations at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scotland, said data from 77 birds of prey that had been satellite-tagged showed a direct correlation between dead and disappeared birds and grouse moors.
Continue reading...Rustler steals 40,000 bees in Britain's biggest hive heist in years
Only an experienced beekeeper could have pulled off raid in Anglesey ‘without getting stung to smithereens’, police say
An experienced beekeeper is suspected of stealing 40,000 bees from Anglesey in one of Britain’s biggest bee rustling cases in years.
Only someone with a bee suit and veil could have pulled off the heist on Paul Williams’s hive in Rhydwyn “without getting stung to smithereens”, police said.
Continue reading...The week in wildlife – in pictures
Playful gelada and inquisitive sea lions are among our pick of images from the natural world this week
Continue reading...Al Gore: Trump has failed to knock Paris climate deal off course
Former US vice president says the US will meet its climate commitments in spite of Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the global agreement
Donald Trump has failed to knock the Paris climate agreement off course despite his efforts to derail it, according to the former US vice president Al Gore.
“The US will meet its commitments [on emissions] in spite of Donald Trump,” he said in London, where his new film An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power was released on Friday. “Every other country has pledged [to combat climate change]. I think the psychological message is that the train has left the station. The signal sent to investors, businesses, individuals and civil society is extraordinarily powerful.”
Continue reading...Giant pipe sections wash up on Norfolk coast – video
A section of pipe almost half a kilometre long has washed up on the north Norfolk coast after breaking free from Norwegian tugs bound for Algeria. Another length of pipe beached earlier this week, and 10 more have been located and secured at sea
Pipe sections up to half a kilometre long wash up on Norfolk beach
Continue reading...Climate crusader Gore takes up arms again
Where global warming gets real: inside Nasa’s mission to the north pole – podcast
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Continue reading...Anger over 'untrue' climate change claims
The year Trump was elected was so hot, it was 1-in-a-million | Dana Nuccitelli
The odds of 2014, 2015, and 2016 naturally being as hot as they were are about the same as the odds you’ll be struck by lightning this year
2014, 2015, and 2016 each broke the global temperature record. A new study led by climate scientist Michael Mann just published in Geophysical Research Letters used climate model simulations to examine the odds that these records would have been set in a world with and without human-caused global warming. In model simulations without a human climate influence, the authors concluded:
Continue reading...The Transcontinental bike race: 2,400 gruelling miles across Europe – in pictures
Hundreds of riders race from Belgium to Greece, with no set route, facing extreme heat and often on only a few hours sleep a night
Continue reading...All slaughterhouses in England to have compulsory CCTV
Cameras are part of a series of measures to improve animal welfare and enforce laws against cruelty
All slaughterhouses in England will be fitted with compulsory CCTV under plans to be unveiled on Friday by environment secretary Michael Gove, as part of a series of measures to bolster welfare standards and enforce laws against animal cruelty.
Continue reading...Britain spent 'twice as much on overseas fossil fuels as renewables'
Nearly half of £6.1bn energy spending in developing countries from 2010-14 went on oil, coal and gas-fired schemes, data shows
The UK has spent more than twice as much overseas support on fossil fuels projects as on renewable ones so far this decade, according to research commissioned by the Catholic aid agency Cafod.
The Overseas Development Institute, which analysed the figures, found that 46% of Britain’s £6.1bn energy spending in developing countries between 2010 and 2014 went on oil, coal and gas-fired schemes, compared with 22% for renewable energy projects.
Continue reading...It’s absurd. But consumers might be better off quitting the grid
EOI open for NQ Clean Energy Hub
Australia’s biggest wind farm is also its least productive
Another solar farm planned for Collinsville, as Blackrock buys in
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