Huge challenge looms to achieve pact on plastic
From the lowest depths of the oceans, to the dizzying heights of the troposphere, plastic is now everywhere.
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12th October 2021
Kunming summit starts new biodiversity chapter
There is likely to be a strong sense of deja vu among the delegates assembled this week in Kunming, China, where the United Nations fired the starting gun on negotiations for the 15th meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP15.
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15th October 2021
COP 26 deal closed but 'not enough'
Negotiators agreed on a climate deal at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP 26, in Glasgow on Saturday, after last-minute concessions on coal pushed the agreement over the line.
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14th October 2021
Last-minute climate deal agreed at COP26
Negotiators agreed on a climate deal at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP26, in Glasgow on Saturday night, after last-minute concessions on coal pushed the agreement over the line.
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11th November 2021
Rich must fix broken promises says executive
Zhu Xian, vice-president and secretary-general of International Finance Forum, said that global leadership must "transcend national interest" in order to tackle climate change, and called on rich nations to fix broken promises, avoid protectionism and better support the low-carbon transition in the developing world.
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12th November 2021
China-US agreement inspires talks at conference
The China-US joint declaration on climate changes has cleared the way for more effective negotiations at COP26 in Glasgow, said Wang Yi, a senior scientific adviser in China's delegation.
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29th October 2021
Stakes high as leaders prepare for COP 26
The stakes are stratospherically high heading into the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP 26, which opens in Glasgow on Sunday.
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22nd September 2020
UN battles to keep climate action alive
The United Nations climate change chief has called on all signatories to the Paris Agreement to submit upgraded emissions reduction plans this year, even as the pandemic causes widespread economic and political disruptions.
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30th January 2020
China and EU lead charge for climate policy
This year is set to be the most critical 12 months to tackle global warming since the signing of the Paris Agreement, Angus McNeice reports in London.
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2nd September 2019
Nature is key to UK's climate goal
Climate experts say the United Kingdom must plant billions of trees as well as take other transformative measures to achieve its ambitious net-zero emissions target by 2050.
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28th March 2018
New life for old tech in green future
It’s 10:30 a.m. on a weekday morning in March, and the United Kingdom is generating 40.2 gigawatts of electricity to serve the needs of 65 million
people. That’s enough energy to power 4 billion LED bulbs, or run a microwave on medium for every person in the country. Twenty years ago, around half of that electricity would have been produced by burning coal. But a revolution is occurring in the way Britain generates power
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3rd December 2020
Hurdles remain as UK fires starting gun on mass vaccination
Next week will mark a momentous occasion in the brief and recent history of the COVID-19 pandemic, as vaccines are distributed throughout the United Kingdom for the first time.
Health workers who have weathered so much on the front line of the battle against the virus will be among the first to receive an injection, as will people in the older age groups, where thousands of lives have already been lost.
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9th August 2019
Engineers team up on floating turbines projects
Chinese and British engineers are teaming up to design a new floating wind turbine capable of weathering strong waves and storms far out at sea.
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12th June 2020
Experts seek approval for controversial COVID-19 trials
A laboratory in the United Kingdom is hoping to become the first in the world to intentionally infect volunteers with novel coronavirus in order to test the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines.
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29th May 2020
UK pauses hydroxychloroquine trial
The United Kingdom drug regulator has ordered Oxford University to pause a trial into the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for the novel coronavirus-caused COVID-19 disease amid safety concerns about the medication.
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2nd May 2020
In smartphones, pandemic may have met its match
Each night thousands of people are helping the search for COVID-19 treatments while they sleep. Just before bed, these citizen scientists put their phones on charge and open an app, connecting to a vast supercomputing network that mines internet databases for drug and food molecules that have the potential to disrupt or destroy the novel coronavirus.
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6th August 2018
UK and China join forces to fight the next global pandemic
In a laboratory at the University of Lincoln’s school of pharmacy, novel drug designer Ishwar Singh holds a thin vial of clear liquid up to the light.
“It’s not like any other antibiotic,” Singh says. “That is why it’s so interesting.” Inside the vial is a molecule that has the potential to save millions of lives.
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5th October 2018
Graphene moves from hype to reality
It's been 14 years since the discovery of graphene, and the world is still waiting for the "wonder material" to provide the groundbreaking innovations the initial headlines promised. We were told our cars, computers and smartphones would be enhanced by graphene, and that the ultra-versatile form of carbon would usher in an era of wearable electronics and prevent droughts by enabling the filtering of salt from seawater.
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23rd April 2019
Huawei or the highway?
When it comes to industrial revolutions, the United Kingdom has always been a prime mover.
From Thomas Savery's steam engine, to Alexander Graham Bell's telephone and Alan Turing's computing machine, British innovation has been central to the three major technological boom periods of the previous two centuries.
But analysts warn that a combination of cyber security fears and political posturing now casts doubt over Britain's role in the fledgling fourth industrial revolution
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18th June 2019
UK's 'name and shame' effort targets food waste
When the numbers are laid out, the problem of global food waste is tough to swallow.
Moral considerations are glaring - people waste about a third of all food produced on the planet each year, according to the charity Waste and Resources Action Programme, while 815 million people are undernourished.
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