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Worldwide Highlights

• American farmers sue USDA after agency deletes climate change data, saying this hindered them from taking “agricultural decisions”

• Germany will likely continue its leadership on climate action. But expect a change in tone

• What climate change means for bird flu — and the soaring price of US eggs

• Swedish wave energy pioneer CorPower Ocean has secured up to €17.5mn from the European Innovation Council

• Climate conditions caused ‘unexpected’ changes in more than a third of 24,000 US lakes

• In Rome, talks to protect Earth’s biodiversity resume with money topping the agenda

UK Highlights

• Major news this morning: UK Climate Change Committee releases their latest Carbon Budget [Full Report]. Different media outlets are pulling out and analysing different parts of the Carbon Budget:

  • Giving up two doner kebabs’ worth of meat a week will be enough to keep the UK within safe climate limits by the end of the next decade [The Guardian]

  • One third of those emissions cuts will come from decisions made by households. The two "most impactful" things households can do are replacing their car with an electric one and a gas boiler with a heat pump (only when they pack up, and not before) [Sky News]

  • Tax families who fly regularly to slash air travel [Telegraph]

  • Half of homes need heat pump by 2040 [BBC]

  • Energy bills slashed by £700 a year by 2050 if UK reaches net zero [i News]

• Sustainable packaging company Pulpex announced that it has raised £62mn to scale production of its recyclable paper-based bottle

• Kellogg’s has debuted a new government-funded hydrogen-fuelled cereal toasting oven at its factory in the UK

The Daily Climate Sceptic

• The world is not going to reach net zero by 2050