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   If it was a country, food waste would have the 3rd largest   
   carbon emissions after the US and China.   
      
      
   Food waste: Amount thrown away totals 900m tonnes   
   Victoria Gill, BBC News   
      
   New figures from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)   
   suggest that more than 900m tonnes of food is thrown away every year   
   around the world, BBC News reports. The UNEP Food Waste Index shows   
   that 17% of the food available to consumers - in shops, households and   
   restaurants - goes directly into the bin, the outlet explains, adding:   
   "Some 60% of that waste is in the home." On average, food waste   
   amounts to 121kg of food thrown out per person every year, reports the   
   i newspaper. The Guardian says that food waste and loss causes about   
   10% of greenhouse gas emissions globally. It adds: "If food waste was   
   a country, it would have the third highest emissions after only the US   
   and China." Bloomberg notes that the non-profit group Project Drawdown   
   - which estimates the potential contribution of different mitigation   
   actions - "ranks cutting food waste ahead of moving to electric cars   
   and switching to plant-based diets". BusinessGreen reports that   
   comments of Inger Andersen, executive director at the UNEP, who says:   
   "If we want to get serious about tackling climate change, nature and   
   biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste, [then] businesses,   
   govts and citizens around the world have to do their part to   
   reduce food waste." (Last year, Carbon Brief published a guest post on   
   food waste as part of a week-long series on food and climate change.)   
      
      
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   Europe facing 'uphill battle' with Covid vaccines as Italy blocks   
   AstraZeneca shipment   
   CNBC, 05 Mar 2021 13:41Z   
   Europe's coronavirus vaccine rollout has been thrust into the spotlight   
   again after Italy blocked a shipment of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines to   
   Australia.   
      
   Human-caused climate change, not nature, is behind changes in Atlantic   
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   CBS News, 05 Mar 2021 12:23Z   
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   FuelCellsWorks, 04 Mar 2021   
   Sen. Brad Hawkins' bill to promote hydrogen-powered vehicles has cleared a   
   major hurdle. The Senate today voted 49-0 to approve Senate Bill 5000, which   
   ...   
      
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   Politico, 05 Mar 2021 02:22Z   
   The FBI on Thu arrested Federico Klein, a former State Dept aide,   
   on charges related to the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, marking the   
   first ...   
      
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   ABC News, 05 Mar 2021 02:30Z   
   The Northern Territory's Howard Springs quarantine facility will soon be   
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   international repatriation flights.   
      
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   investigated in damning report   
   ABC News, 05 Mar 2021 05:28Z   
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   of a crappy movie'   
   ABC Illawarra, 05 Mar 2021 06:27Z   
   The University of Wollongong is coming under fire from students for its   
   lacklustre ceremony for the class of 2020 which featured a one-hour pre-   
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   School principals in crisis meeting after petition detailed 1000s of   
   alleged sexual assaults   
   ABC News, 05 Mar 2021 06:26Z   
   More than 100 NSW private school principals convene to discuss sex education   
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   ABC/The Conversation, 05 Mar 2021 07:25Z   
   News of the blockage of a shipment of 250,000 COVID-19 vaccines from Europe   
   to Australia has caused concern and outrage. But to avoid these types of   
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   writes Deborah Gleeson.   
      
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   ABC News, 05 Mar 2021 07:24Z   
   After taking a long road back to profitability, the Whyalla steelworks is   
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   [Reeducation!]   
   Patriotism and 'holistic love' for China: Beijing considers overhauling Hong   
   Kong's electoral system   
   ABC News, 05 Mar 2021 07:24Z   
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     SBS accused of possibly airing forced confessions from prisoners in China   
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   Horizon   
   The New York Times, 04 Mar 2021 21:21Z   
   Volcanoes in southwestern Iceland have been quiet for 800 years, but the   
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   The New York Times, 05 Mar 2021 01:22Z   
   Sydney. A tsunami warning for parts of New Zealand was lifted on Fri   
   afternoon, hours after officials had told residents of coastal areas to   
   evacuate in the ...   
      
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