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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.

COP24 video: How can the Paris Agreement stay on track in a world with Bolsonaro and Trump? | Carbon Brief

Carbon Brief has been talking to a range of people attending COP24, the latest annual round of international climate negotiations being held this year in Katowice, Poland.

Carbon Brief

Protesters disrupt US panel's fossil fuels pitch at climate talks

Official event praising coal, oil and gas met with laughter and chants of ‘shame on you’

the Guardian

EU talks to set CO2 emission limits for cars founder

The European Union failed on Tuesday to reach a compromise over how sharply to curb carbon dioxide emissions from cars and vans as car-producing countries and more environmentally conscious lawmakers could not find a compromise.

U.S.

Ireland ranked worst in EU for performance on climate action

State’s performance also among worst in the world in a major international assessment

The Irish Times

Ecological memory modifies the cumulative impact of recurrent climate extremes

The increasing frequency of marine heatwaves suggests that the impacts of successive events may be influenced by previous events. The extent of the 2016 and 2017 bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef shows that ecological memory played a role in the impacts of the second heatwave.

Nature Climate Change

Increased snowfall over the Antarctic Ice Sheet mitigated twentieth-century sea-level rise

Ice loss from Antarctica contributes to global sea-level rise. Analysis of ice core records and reanalysis datasets reveals that increased snowfall over the Antarctic Ice Sheet has offset contemporary sea-level rise by ~10 mm since 1901.

Nature Climate Change

The private sector’s climate change risk and adaptation blind spots

Investors are increasingly asking businesses to disclose their climate risk and corresponding management strategies. A review of corporate adaptation strategies reveals limited consideration of broader risks to supply chains, customers and employees.

Nature Climate Change

Analysis — The Climate Change Act 10 Years On: A Decade of Denialism in Retreat - DeSmog

The UK‘s landmark Climate Change Act passed into law 10 years ago with near-unanimous support, setting a legally-binding target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent of 1990 levels by 2050. It was the the first of its kind in the world, and many others would soon follow suit. But not everyone was…

DeSmog

Hitachi may ditch Welsh nuclear project

Doubts over Britain’s planned nuclear revival increased yesterday amid fears that the Japanese company developing a new plant on Anglesey may be preparing to scrap the project.Shares in Hitachi rose

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Emmanuel Macron's carbon tax sparked gilets jaunes protests, but popular climate policy is possible

The gilets jaunes protests show we need to fight inequality for a just transition to a low-carbon society.

The Conversation

Opinion | Trump Is Unwilling to Tackle Climate Change. China Must Step Up. (Published 2018)

China can do more. The planet depends on it.

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Building new nuclear plants in France uneconomical -environment agency

Building new nuclear reactors in France would not be economical, state environment agency ADEME said in a study on Monday, contradicting the government's long-term energy strategy as well as state-owned utility EDF's investment plans.

U.S.

Extinction Rebellion goes global in run-up to week of international civil disobedience

UK activist group using climate talks in Poland this week to widen 35-country network

the Guardian

More protesters storm Pelosi's office demanding climate change action

Hundreds of young protesters stormed Capitol Hill on Monday, taking over the offices of three House Democratic leaders to call for an immediate climate change plan.

TheHill

Climate change creates mutant fugu, a deadly Japanese delicacy

The road, hemmed in on one side by empty warehouses and the other by a concrete seawall, ends abruptly in a desolate parking lot. Men step out of their cars and into the darkness, then slip behind the sliding doors of a warehouse. Inside, they huddle under floodlights and...

U.S.

Australia’s renewables sector doubles output in boom year

Clean Energy Council warns surge ‘could come to an end if the energy policy debate is left to languish unresolved’

the Guardian

Hedgehogs face threat from switch to biofuels

Hedgehogs, red squirrels and starlings would be among the British animals worst hit by a shift to bioenergy, according to research that found that making fuel from crops posed a risk to biodiversity.A

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Stella McCartney, Burberry among fashion brands uniting against climate change

A new charter for climate action within the fashion industry was unveiled Monday at COP24 in Poland.

CNN

Neil Young criticises festival sponsor Barclays over 'fossil fuel funding'

Young says choice of sponsor for his London show with Bob Dylan ‘doesn’t work for me’ and claims promoters British Summer Time ‘jumped the gun’

the Guardian

'We could smell the boat approaching': the grim truth about animal exports

Broken bones are common for sheep and cattle held on ships for weeks in cramped pens. Jo-Anne McArthur tracked arrivals in Israel’s Haifa port

the Guardian

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