US-based NGOs call on Ireland to close peat-powered stations by 2020
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Over 30 conservation and environmental groups in the US have voiced concern that plans for large-scale biomass burning at Ireland’s peat power...
Guest post: Calculating the carbon footprint of the NHS in England
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Trump Science Job Nominees Missing Advanced Science Degrees
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Government’s oil and gas drilling stance ‘completely nonsensical’
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The Government can’t be “taken seriously” on climate action so long as it continues to grant oil and gas exploration licences, Green...
German discounters launch ambitious plastic recycling targets
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Aldi had pledged to make 100 per cent of packaging on its own-label products in Ireland recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2022.
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The Circular Economy in the Recovery
June 3rd, 2020
We were all caught off guard by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the plastics industry was no different. The industry had invested in...
As it happened: Final scramble for deal at climate talks in Poland
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Committee warned of potential “unintended consequences” from retrofitting
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Local areas should not be inadvertently gentrified as retrofitting is rolled out, the Committee on Budgetary Oversight was told this morning.
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NASA, US, European Partner Satellite Returns First Sea Level Measurements
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, a joint U.S.-European satellite built to measure global sea surface height, has sent back its first measurements of sea level. The...
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