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Starmer: UK and EU green protections risk diverging under Brexit deal
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Bolsonaro names climate denier as Brazil’s foreign minister
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Australia leads push to open UN shipping talks to media
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France aims to ban deforestation imports by 2030
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Carmakers slam Spanish climate law as ‘excessive and rushed’
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EU must not blindly sign up to a weak aviation carbon market
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Bolsonaro’s deforestation of the Amazon has already begun
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