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Sara Stefanini

    Apr 15, 2019
    News

    As climate fight enters new phase, local responses are starved of funding

    Global, one-size-fits-all solutions work for cutting emissions, but adapting to warming requires an altogether different approach
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    Mar 29, 2019
    News

    ‘Laggard’ Ireland takes step toward net-zero carbon goal

    A cross-party parliamentary group wants carbon budgets, a higher tax and green agriculture support to reverse the country’s lax policies
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    Mar 25, 2019
    Energy

    Southeast Europeans ignore EU rules with €2.4bn coal subsidies

    The EU’s Energy Community neighbours ‘systematically turn a blind eye’ to its state aid rules, a report by the secretariat finds
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    Mar 19, 2019
    News

    UK and Italy bid for 2020 climate talks, amid political uncertainty for both

    Both countries face potential general elections and economic problems before the crucial Cop26 meeting and the UK may still be in a Brexit imbroglio
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    Mar 14, 2019
    News

    US and Saudi Arabia block geoengineering governance push

    Countries failed to agree on a Swiss resolution to consider regulating technologies that aim to cool the planet, at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi
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    Mar 13, 2019
    Energy

    Energy and oil majors turn to rural Africa in grab for world’s next billion customers

    Once basic energy is established in disconnected regions, the companies that supply it hope to cash in on demand for a slew of new products and services
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    Mar 8, 2019
    News

    Belfast’s bid to join UK environment law raises post-Brexit border issues

    Adding Northern Ireland to the environment law adds pressure on London to keep its regulations in step with the EU’s
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    Mar 6, 2019
    News

    New UK green watchdog to be based on EU system, says Gove

    ‘Whatever else are the defects of the EU – that is a good working model,’ the environment secretary told MPs
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    Feb 27, 2019
    Politics

    UK bill would weaken environmental law after Brexit, legal experts tell MPs

    The bill creates ‘get-out-of-jail-free cards’ for ministers and exposes the environment watchdog to government influence, they said
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    Feb 26, 2019
    News

    Switzerland puts geoengineering governance on UN environment agenda

    No longer the preserve of science fiction, climate-hacking technologies may need international oversight, say backers of draft resolution
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    Feb 25, 2019
    News

    Costa Rica targets electric cars and forest growth in 2050 climate strategy

    President Carlos Alvarado Quesada has launched an economy-wide plan to slash his country’s greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century
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    Feb 22, 2019
    Politics

    Climate Weekly: Europe’s struggle to walk the talk

    Sign up to get our weekly newsletter straight to your inbox, plus breaking news, investigations and extra bulletins from key events
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    Feb 18, 2019
    Finance

    Ireland’s democratic experiment lays the ground for stronger climate action

    The Citizen’s Assembly could become a model for developing informed, fair and ambitious climate policy – if the government accepts its recommendations
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    Feb 13, 2019
    Energy

    Ireland needs new oil and gas fields to ease reliance on Brexit UK, say drillers

    Oil and gas explorers are gearing up to drill offshore Ireland in a bid to boost its energy independence from Britain
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    Feb 12, 2019
    Energy

    Irish energy industry calls for new links to Europe amid Brexit fears

    Grid operator boss calls on Brussels to approve funding for a new electricity connection to France to avoid isolation from continent
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    Feb 4, 2019
    Energy

    EU set to tighten rules on palm oil for biofuels

    Indonesia and Malaysia say the EU measure will unfairly disadvantage their crops, while environmentalists worry it won’t be tough enough on deforestation
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    Feb 1, 2019
    Energy

    BP backs shareholder call to align its strategy with Paris climate goals

    The oil and gas major will have to set out how its strategy and investments fit with targets to limit global temperature rise, under new resolution
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    Jan 31, 2019
    Energy

    No deal Brexit to leave UK without green watchdog for two years – report

    Changes to UK environment oversight and the Irish power market will not be set by 29 March, the Institute for Government said, and a crash out will leave no time to do so
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    Jan 30, 2019
    News

    ‘End of the road’ for UK citizens’ climate case rejected by appeal court

    The case, brought by 11 members of the public and the NGO Plan B argued the UK’s 2050 climate target was not in line with the Paris Agreement
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    Jan 28, 2019
    Nature

    World’s three biggest rainforests face year of precarious politics

    Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia all face a year of political flux placing their vast rainforests in peril
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    Jan 21, 2019
    Finance

    Davos elite looks to ‘Globalisation 4.0’ to stem climate change

    Business leaders say the next wave of globalisation must create social benefits as well as provide technical solutions to climate change
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    Jan 16, 2019
    Energy

    MPs call to expand post-Brexit green programme across whole government

    Indications that Britain’s new environmental watchdog will be government-funded raise questions about its independence, the National Audit Office said
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    Jan 14, 2019
    Energy

    UK anti-pollution drive undermined by leaving EU, say campaigners

    As he launches new restrictions on pollution secretary Michael Gove says Brexit is a chance to go greener, but NGOs worry the regulatory bite is missing
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    Jan 14, 2019
    Finance

    Stoke’s potteries backed remain, now they want May’s deal to reshape climate policy

    As the PM visits the pro-Brexit heartland, the major industry, once overwhelmingly against leaving, sees an opportunity to lighten the burden of EU carbon pricing
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