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Climate change is accelerating – and the UK government is 'strikingly unprepared'

Read successive progress reports by the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the UK government’s statutory advisor on climate change, and you sense the growing frustration. Over the years, the CCC’s assessments of the government’s response to the climate crisis have become more critical, its recommendations more explicit and the tone more…

The Conversation

London economy facing £2bn climate hit to economy

London faces a near £2 billion hit to its economy if climate change causes temperatures to soar by 2 degrees by the end of the century, a new report has warned.

Evening Standard

Government has failed to prepare UK for climate crisis, say top advisers

UK ‘strikingly unprepared’ for looming threats, says Climate Change Committee

The Independent UK

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UK ‘strikingly unprepared’ for impacts of climate crisis

Government’s official advisers point to ‘lost decade’ in efforts to protect lives and livelihoods

The Guardian - UK

Seemingly ambitious Defra hedgerow targets actually due to typo

Thérèse Coffey reveals proposals for England far less ambitious than those set out in first draft of environment document

The Guardian - UK

WA opposition blasts government after CCC investigation of Phil Edman's laptop ends without even a whimper

Phil Edman's laptop was the most feared electronic device in WA politics — but the CCC quietly ended its investigation into it almost a year ago, and found it didn't live up to the hype.

ABC News

Corruption and Crime Commission slams WA Police use of dogs against young Aboriginal people

The head of Western Australia's anti-corruption body criticises the police's use of dogs against young people, and says policies governing their deployment were not "racist in intent, but are racist".

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Corruption watchdog dismisses claims Rockingham hospital doctor tried to coerce colleague to alter death certificate date

A Corruption and Crime Commission investigation is unable to substantiate claims a senior staff member at Rockingham General Hospital tried to coerce a registrar into changing the date on a patient's death certificate.

ABC News

UK ‘must act now on renewable energy or risk being left behind’

Government needs to introduce new ambitious energy policies before next general election, advisers say

The Guardian - UK

Former mayor has gone from 'rooster to feather duster'

Former Logan City Council mayor Luke Smith is set to face sentencing after pleading guilty to charges including misconduct in public office.

AAP

Government must speed up decarbonisation, analysts say

Trade bodies, renewable entrepreneurs, researchers and expert analysts have said that Government policy is holding back a net zero energy system.

The Independent UK

‘Urgent changes’ needed to achieve decarbonised power system, report says

The Climate Change Committee said planning, regulation and consent policy is holding back investment in renewable energy.

The Independent UK

Queensland whistleblower ‘vindicated’ by former Logan mayor Luke Smith’s guilty pleas

Sharon Kelsey, fired as Logan CEO after reporting misconduct, says Smith’s admission of guilt was a long time coming

The Guardian - AU

Ex-Qld mayor pleads guilty years after watchdog probe

A former Queensland mayor has pleaded guilty to offences that arose from an investigation by the state's corruption watchdog, five years after being charged.

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on the UK’s net zero targets: time to walk the walk

Editorial: The government is failing to make good on Britain’s net zero pledges to the world

Newsroom.co.nz

Christchurch sleepwalks towards partial asset sales

A warning about the curse of corporate investors emerges for Christchurch, which is weighing up partially privatising public assets

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: cabinet ministers warned of legal action over UK’s failure to tackle climate crisis

Senior civil servants have issued the warnings as government is way behind on net zero pledges, according leaked documents

Reuters

Ivory Coast gives cocoa farmers electronic cards to track beans, ensure fair price

Ivory Coast's cocoa regulator on Thursday started distributing electronic cards to cocoa farmers to help track beans from plantations to their export ports and ensure the growers are paid a guaranteed price for their produce.

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Zimbabwe court grants bail to 26 opposition party members

A Zimbabwean court granted bail on Friday to 26 opposition party members who were arrested for holding what authorities said was an unlawful gathering.

Chicago Tribune

Mayor Lightfoot's campaign defended emails seeking volunteers after school district raised alarm

CHICAGO — A Chicago Public Schools official informed Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s campaign team that it can’t recruit students for political work on campus or offer extra credit — hours before the mayor’s campaign released a statement defending it as a “common practice” done for decades, emails obtained by The Chicago…

The Guardian - UK

‘The Crocodile has not changed’: Zimbabwe opposition warns of election violence

Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa urges world to keep ‘eyes on’ President Mnangagwa amid fears of repression this summer

The Guardian - UK

On the edge of extinction: why western chimpanzees matter – photo essay

Photojournalist Roberto García Roa has been working with the Chimpanzee Conservation Centre in Guinea, one of the few international institutions trying to protect critically endangered western chimpanzees

Reuters

Zimbabwe police arrest 25 opposition members ahead of presidential election

Zimbabwean police on Saturday fired teargas at an opposition party gathering in Harare and arrested 25 of its members, including two members of parliament, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) said.

The Guardian - UK

Zimbabwe court denies opposition MP pre-trial bail for fifteenth time

In an election year, critics of the ruling Zanu-PF party are claiming political persecution over the continued incarceration of Job Sikhala

ABC News

Former WA MP Brian Ellis sentenced after hindering Corruption and Crime Commission investigation

A former WA politician is handed a 10-month suspended jail term and fined $20,000 for hindering a corruption investigation, which found he had improperly used taxpayer funds to pay for personal expenses, including a visit to a strip club.

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