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Here’s a selection of today’s environment related news from around the web. We do the hard work, so you don’t have to.

Explainer: Why some US Democrats want a ‘Green New Deal’ to tackle climate change | Carbon Brief

A growing number of Democrats in the US Congress are hoping to create a new set of policies which would trigger a rapid decarbonisation of the US economy. They have labelled the plan as the “green new deal”.

Carbon Brief

Natural ocean fluctuations could help explain Antarctic sea ice changes | Carbon Brief

A study offers a new theory that could help explain Antarctic sea ice changes. It suggests that, for the last few decades, natural fluctuations could have trapped heat deep in the Southern Ocean – leaving surface water relatively cool and helping to preserve the sea ice.

Carbon Brief

Naturalist Attenborough urges climate meet to tackle 'greatest threat in thousands of years'

British broadcaster and environmentalist David Attenborough on Monday urged world leaders, meeting in Poland to agree ways to limit global warming, to get on and tackle "our greatest threat in thousands of years".

U.S.

High Stakes As International Climate Conference Begins

The U.N. climate meeting underway in Poland is the most important climate conference since the 2015 Paris Agreement set emissions reduction goals for nearly every country on Earth.

NPR.org

Shell links chiefs’ pay to green targets

Executive pay at Royal Dutch Shell will be tied to targets for reducing the Anglo-Dutch group’s carbon emissions after it bowed to pressure from investors over climate change.Shell previously had set

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UK Credit Agency Investigated Over Fossil Fuel Investments

A government credit agency tasked with bolstering the UK’s export opportunities is to be investigated by parliament over its ongoing support of fossil fuel projects.

DeSmog UK

How much can the Paris Agreement really achieve?

Despite decades of UN climate change conferences, the fight to save the Earth's climate from collapse has still barely begun, writes Mark Lynas.

CNN

Opinion | Mobilize the Private Sector to Avert a Climate Crash

Government leadership is crucial. But companies must accelerate investment in green solutions.

WSJ

Declines in northern forest tree growth following snowpack decline and soil freezing

Climate change is projected to reduce the depth and duration of insulating winter snowpack and increase the severity of soil freezing across northern forests. Using a 5‐year snow removal experiment i...

Wiley Online Library

Special Report: U.S. 'clean coal' program fails to deliver on smog cuts

Champions of coal say the superabundant fossil fuel can be made environmentally friendlier by refining it with chemicals – a “clean coal” technology backed by a billion dollars in U.S. government tax subsidies annually.

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Bush Had a Lasting Impact on Climate and Air Policy

The late 41st president started the national climate assessment and enacted policies to target acid rain

Scientific American

Kudlow calls for end to subsidies for electric cars, renewables

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday the Trump administration will seek to end subsidies for electric cars and renewable energy sources, according to reports.

TheHill

More than 170 MPs urge Parliament's pension fund to drop fossil fuels

Campaign to divest MPs' pension fund of fossil fuel holdings gains further momentum

Ocasio-Cortez: Fighting climate change will be ‘the civil rights movement of our generation’

Speaking at a televised town hall on Monday, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said that the government’s next steps toward fighting climate change need to be as momentous as the civil rights movement or NASA's push to put a man on

TheHill

'We've got to earn the right to grow': Heathrow unveils 'carbon neutral' roadmap

Director of sustainability at Heathrow, Matt Gorman, talks to BusinessGreen about airport's new plan to achieve carbon neutral growth once a third runway is built in 2026

Australia isn't on track to meet its 2030 emissions target, UN report says

About half of the G20 countries will fall short of their Paris agreement pledges, scientists warn

the Guardian

'Our leaders are like children,' school strike founder tells climate summit

Greta Thunberg, 15, told UN summit that students are acting in absence of global leadership

the Guardian

David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon

Naturalist tells leaders at UN climate summit that fate of world is in their hands

the Guardian

Insurers in UK and US lagging behind in divesting from coal, report finds

European firms are making faster progress in refusing to insure polluting firms, says campaign group Unfriend Coal

the Guardian

Business community unites to urge Coalition to abandon energy 'big stick'

Some of Australia’s highest solar takeup is occurring in the electorates of some of the Coalition’s strongest coal supporters, new analysis shows

the Guardian

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