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Cop29 live: calls grow to ban fossil fuel lobbyists at summit as numbers soar UK
Greens say climate measures ‘being derailed by the fossil fuel lobby’ and that Trump’s victory underlines the need to reform Cop
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Dealing with Climate Change & Justice
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When plastic bottles are mixed with cardboard in recycling bins, in the wet winter months the sodden cardboard wraps around the plastic bottles and trays, causing havoc at recycling plants.
New figures now suggest that plastic contamination in paper and card jumps by 40% between November and March and as a result the UK sends an extra 5,000 tonnes of plastic waste to landfill or incineration.
The government is expected to signal in the next few weeks whether it will continue a Conservative policy which planned to allow councils to collect “co-mingled” recycling or if it will insist that paper, plastic, glass, metal, food and garden waste should be separated at source.
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Time to reduce the problem at source and stop overconsuming everything.
Plastic cannot be viably recycled, it can only be down-cycled.
And most of what’s in it is overpriced, health damaging, sugary junk. Or else, fruit (which comes with nature’s own wrapper), unnecessarily wrapped in plastic for “marketing BS”
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World’s 1.5C climate target ‘deader than a doornail’, experts say
Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-world-temperature-target
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The UN’s climate chief Simon Steele also rallied ministers to action:
“There is still a ton of work to do to ensure Cop29 delivers and [countries] to be moving much faster towards landing zones, particularly on the [climate finance goal]. I’ve been very blunt. Climate finance is not charity. It is 100% in every nation’s interest to protect their economies and people from rampant climate impacts.
Ministers who have just arrived need to roll up their sleeves and dive into the hardest issues. Bluffing, brinkmanship and premeditated playbooks are burning up precious time. So let’s cut the theatrics and get down to the real business this week.
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BBC1 8:00
Can Scientists Save the World?
Panorama
Some of the world’s leading scientists say technology can help in the fight against climate change. If global temperatures continue to rise, we might need their solutions. They include mechanical trees that absorb carbon, machines that brighten clouds and a solar reactor that makes fuel from fresh air. The scientists say their inventions have been shown to work at small scale but would need massive investment to reduce the effect of our greenhouse gas emissions. Richard Bilton meets the scientists trying to save the world and investigates whether they can really make a difference.
Release date: 18 November 2024
11 months left to watch“
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The Green party is siding with the farmers. This is from Emily O’Brien, a councillor on Lewes district council and the Greens’ agricultural and rural welfare spokesperson.Farmers are feeling abandoned. They have suffered badly from Brexit, both via detrimental trade conditions and reduced subsidies. And tax breaks for agricultural land have inflated land values, making it harder for both new entrants and existing farmers. It is right to clamp down on those who buy farmland to avoid tax and the Green party strongly supports wealth taxes.
But we also need the government to take action to ensure that hard working farmers can earn a decent income.
In particular, in the face of our climate and nature crises, we need subsidies to focus on encouraging farmers to shift to nature-friendly farming. This will protect our food security and support the rural economy while allowing wildlife to recover.
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The exponential rise in large intensive poultry units (IPUs) in the valleys is a key driver of river pollution. Chicken dropping contains more phosphates – which starve fish and river plants of oxygen – than any other animal manure.
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