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‘Our future demands it,’ says tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes as Trump and Morrison snub the New York session

Australian tech entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes will travel to the United Nations summit on climate change in New York to announce that Atlassian will adopt a target of net zero emissions by no later than 2050.

The commitment, offered through UN Global Compact’s Business Ambition for 1.5C and the Science-Based Targets initiative, will see Atlassian become the first major Australian company to join the Business Ambition for 1.5C.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg has warned world leaders the ‘eyes of the world will be on them’ at a key UN summit next week.

‘We are not just some young people skipping school,’ she told thousands of school strikers in Manhattan, on a day when millions around the world demonstrated for action. ‘We are a wave of change. Together, we are unstoppable.’

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No Food on a Dying Planet action at Kent port is expected to be mirrored across the Channel by other XR groups

Climate change activists from Extinction Rebellion involved in a “blockade” of the busy Dover port are reported to have glued themselves to streets and have been told they could face arrest if they leave a designated area, police have said.

Two main roads out of the port are expected to be blocked for four hours, the environmental group has said.

The image was not taken after a climate strike and was not even taken in Australia

A hoax photo that claims to show rubbish left behind by Australian climate strike protesters is circulating on Facebook, despite being revealed as fake months ago.

Though it lacks any verification, and was debunked in April, the image and false caption have been shared 19,000 times in 12 hours, and thousands of times from copycats.

Review also urges parks and beauty spots to increase appeal to minority ethnic visitors

National parks and areas of outstanding natural beauty have not done enough to protect nature or welcome diverse visitors, and extra government funding must help drive radical change, according to a review.

The independent review, commissioned by the former environment secretary Michael Gove, praises the work of England’s 44 “national landscapes”, including the Lake District and Dartmoor, but calls for a new focus to stop declines in nature and welcome working-class and black and minority ethnic visitors.

Young and old alike took to the streets in an estimated 185 countries to demand action

Millions of people demonstrated across the world yesterday demanding urgent action to tackle global heating, as they united across timezones and cultures to take part in the biggest climate protest in history.

In an explosion of the youth movement started by the Swedish school striker Greta Thunberg just over 12 months ago, people protested from the Pacific islands, through Australia, across-south east Asia and Africa into Europe and onwards to the Americas.

The climate strike must be a beginning and not an end. Warming won’t be stopped by symbolism

During the carnage of the first world war, the poet Wilfred Owen revisited the biblical story in which God tests Abraham by commanding the sacrifice of Isaac, his son. In Genesis, Abraham dutifully prepares the lad for slaughter before God relents and tells him to offer a ram instead.

Owen’s bitter poem rewrites the ending:

Greta Thunberg says she is blown away by the global success of her school climate strike movement. In an interview before she led a climate march in New York City, she said she 'never would have predicted' how quickly the action would spread across the world

• US to stage its largest ever climate strike: 'Somebody must sound the alarm'

A kangaroo affected by drought, a prize-winning sea lion and a polka-dotted zebra foal

A Fiorland penguin has spent eight weeks recuperating after a 2,500km swim from New Zealand to Australia. Now the endangered bird is being released by Melbourne zoo back into the wild

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From babies to bagpipers, hundreds of thousands filled the streets in more than 200 rallies

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From the small sun-drenched Inner Hebridean island of Iona to the packed streets of central London, parents and grandparents, children and trade unionists have stepped out of their Friday routines to tell their political leaders time is running out to tackle the climate crisis.

Related: Greta Thunberg: face of the Global Climate Strike - in pictures

The huge influence of the Swedish schoolgirl who first began the Friday’s for Future strikes in 2018 is evident across this week’s global protests

Sand from Great Yarmouth seabed creates mobile dune defences to protect villages

An artificial dune of nearly 2m cubic metres of sand has been created on the Norfolk coast in an innovative approach to slowing coastal erosion.

In the £20m sandscaping scheme, enough sand to fill one-and-a-half Wembley stadiums has been dredged from existing North Sea seabed extraction sites off Great Yarmouth and ferried to the rapidly eroding coastline beside the large gas terminal at Bacton.

Jeremy Corbyn has called Donald Trump’s decision to walk away from the Paris climate agreement ‘disgraceful’ in a speech to climate strikers in London.

The Labour leader said the climate emergency could only be solved by international action. ‘Destroying nature ultimately destroys all of us’, he added

Climate striker Parker recited a poem with a powerful message on climate change at the global climate strike in Brisbane, Australia, on Friday. Ten-year-old Parker said he joined the strike ‘to tell the government that climate change is real and they need to act’. An estimated 300,000 people gathered at more than 100 rallies across Australia on Friday, calling for action to guard against climate change

• Global climate strike: Greta Thunberg and school students lead climate crisis protest – live updates
  

People around the world have been walking out of school and work to join the latest protests against the climate crisis. The global day of action, calling for a reduction in emissions, is being held in the run-up to a UN summit in New York

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Exclusive: since January at least 45 consumers have fallen ill, investigation finds, despite assurances of very low risk

Dozens of people have been poisoned after consuming British eggs contaminated with salmonella, an investigation has found, despite recent government assurances that the risk had been virtually eliminated.

At least 45 consumers have fallen ill since January this year in a major disease outbreak health officials have traced back to contaminated eggs and poultry farms. Salmonella can cause food poisoning and – in the most serious cases – can prove fatal. Public Health England (PHE), which monitors salmonella, is not aware of any deaths.

Organisers of the school strike for climate estimate 300,000 people turned out in more than 100 cities and towns

Hundreds of thousands of Australians took to the streets on Friday as they called for greater action on the climate emergency in more than 100 cities and towns across the country.

Organisers of the school strike for climate claimed about 300,000 people attended dozens of rallies, including an estimated 100,000 in Melbourne and 80,000 in Sydney. The unprecedented climate crisis protests were likely the largest public demonstrations in Australia since the marches against the Iraq War in 2003.

Jones cited Joseph Goebbels while the Mail found a child who said they just wanted the day off school

The Daily Mail found a child at the climate strike who said they just wanted the day off school and Alan Jones quoted Joseph Goebbels. Those were just some of the more bizarre takes on the climate strike from sections of the media on Friday.

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied across Australia in what were overwhelmingly peaceful events but on Sydney’s most popular breakfast program Jones interviewed climate sceptics and claimed school children were being brainwashed by adults with a political agenda.

Australian climate strikers’ signs send government a bleakly humorous Texta message

Laughing in the face of looming apocalypse, Friday’s climate strike brought out the best in dark Australian humour.

While many signs were deadly serious, teens are nothing if not witty and they came armed with memes and pop culture references.