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24.03.2020 - Use coronavirus rescue packages to fight climate change - UK adviser
Gigantic stimulus packages to prop up the world economy during the coronavirus crisis should be designed to tackle climate change, according to a senior adviser from Britain which is hosting the next U.N. summit on global warming.

24.03.2020 - Doubling up: Could coronavirus bailouts make economies greener?
Two weeks into a growing coronavirus outbreak, Lucy Vinis, the mayor of the Oregon city of Eugene, has plenty to worry about - from how to protect the community's homeless population to how to keep services functioning in the face of uncertainty.

23.03.2020 - Wheat in Whitehorse: how climate change helps feed Canada's remote regions
After failing to grow wheat in Canada's subarctic Yukon territory 15 years ago, farmer Steve Mackenzie-Grieve gave it another shot in 2017.

17.03.2020 - Coronavirus creating solar industry 'crisis' - US trade group
The spreading coronavirus is threatening project schedules in the booming U.S. solar industry following a year in which the sector topped natural gas as the nation's top new power source, according to a report published on Tuesday.

16.03.2020 - Unseasonal rain and hail damages crops in India, hits farmers' income
Unseasonal torrential rains and hailstorms have damaged the winter-planted crops of millions of Indian growers, inundating wheat, potato, chickpea and rapeseed farms in large parts of the fertile northern plains, farmers said.

13.03.2020 - Air pollution clears in northern Italy after coronavirus lockdown, satellite shows
Air pollution over northern Italy fell after the government introduced a nationwide lockdown to combat coronavirus, satellite imagery showed on Friday, in a new example of the pandemic's potential impact on emissions.

12.03.2020 - ANALYSIS-Crossing state lines? Oil firms flare Texas gas as investors vent on climate
Across the Permian Basin's high desert landscape, natural gas is going up in smoke even as oil majors including Exxon Mobil and BP pledge cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

12.03.2020 - Frozen harvest: German ice wine maker defies climate change
One winemaker in southern Germany has succeeded in producing a small, but precious, quantity of ice wine after an unseasonably mild winter ruined the rest of the country's harvest.

09.03.2020 - Carbon emissions fall as electricity producers move away from coal
Carbon emissions from the global electricity system fell by 2% last year, the biggest drop in almost 30 years, as countries began to turn their backs on coal-fired power plants.

09.03.2020 - Denmark should sharply increase carbon tax to meet emissions target -govt adviser
Denmark is seen as a pioneer with regards to climate change and many of its peers are following what the state is doing to achieve its targets

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