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IMF and World Bank must act fast after Covid caught policymakers napping

In 2020, the tide went out for the global economy and just about everybody was caught skinny-dipping.

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Daniel Yergin: How will the pandemic affect the sprint away from fossil fuels?

The challenges of re-engineering the global economy by 2050 were already immense, even before the advent of Covid-19.

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Schemes boosting cycling and walking accelerate across the UK

One of the first "low-traffic neighbourhoods" to be created in the UK was in Hackney, east London, in the early 1970s, when residential roads were closed to through traffic but remained open to local residents, pedestrians and cyclists.

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Tim Flannery: The megafires and pandemic expose the lies that frustrate action on climate change

Increasingly, many experts are viewing 2021, and specifically the UN climate change conference to be held in Glasgow late that year, as humanity's last chance to avoid an environmental apocalypse. If there was a moment of true emergency in the fight to preserve our climate, it is now.

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Global oil demand may have passed peak, says BP energy report

BP has called time on the world's rising demand for fossil fuels after finding that demand for oil may have already reached its peak and faces an unprecedented decades-long decline.

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France's 'big green recovery plan' not big enough for campaigners

Billed by the economy minister, Bruno Le Maire, as a "big green recovery plan", one-third of France's €100bn (£90bn) post-Covid economic stimulus package will be spent, in the government's words, on "ecological transition" and "greening the economy".

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Australian greenhouse gas emissions fall to lowest level since 1998 under Covid restrictions

The energy and emissions reduction minister, Angus Taylor, said the reductions in preliminary data to June had been caused by "unsustainable restrictions on Australians' livelihoods and freedom to travel", including a 79% reduction in emissions caused by jet fuel.

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