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Tuesday, 13 October 2020

The Guardian

• Stop CO2 emissions bouncing back after Covid plunge, says IEAGovernments are not doing enough to prevent rapid rebound, says agency's report, The coronavirus pandemic is expected to cause a record 7% decline in global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2020, but governments are not doing enough to prevent a rapid rebound, according to an influential report.Carbon dioxide emissions from energy use are expected to fall to 33.4 gigatonnes in 2020, the lowest level since 2011 and the biggest year on year fall since 1900 when records began, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its annual world energy outlook.

The Telegraph

• Jaguar Land Rover facing fines as it lags behind in pollution reduction [subscription]Britain's biggest carmaker has the widest gap to close in reducing CO2 emissions, according to one campaign group
• Eddie Stobart drives back towards profit [subscription]Trucking firm tries to put accounting scandal behind it after a rescue deal last year
• Europe's new taste for gas-guzzling SUVs threatens to undermine electric car progress, reports warn [subscription]Almost 40 per cent of cars sold in Europe in the first half of this year were SUVs

Times Online

• Warning of electric car shortage as big firms focus on EU sales [subscription]The UK could "run out" of electric cars next year as motor manufacturers prioritise the sale of vehicles in mainland Europe, according to research.

The Mirror

• Wales threatens to close border to visitors from England's high-risk regionsWales First Minister Mark Drakeford has given the UK Government "one final opportunity" before he makes changes to law banning visitors from England with Boris Johnson only advising people not to travel

Daily Post (North Wales)

• Pavement parkers face being hit by fine as Welsh Government to give councils new powers The current law is 'not as clear as it could' Deputy Transport Minister Lee Waters says

The York Press

• York outer ring road A1237 dualling may not start until 2023 WORK on dualling the outer ring road - the A1237 - could start in 2023 and be complete by 2025.

Bucks Free Press

• Cross-party support for 20mph zones across Buckinghamshire – if local funding securedCALLS for 20mph zones across the to safeguard lives have sounded from every corner of the political arena – with representatives from one town agreeing to fight for funding.

Other Regional Press

• JLR offers voluntary redundancy to some of its furloughed staffThe Coventry car maker has described it as a small and targeted voluntary redundancy programme

Other News Sources

• Electric Cars Booming In Europe, But UK Growth Threatened Without New RegulationsElectric cars will treble their market share in the European market, including the UK, this year as a result of EU car CO2 targets, new analysis shows. Despite the pandemic, EV sales have surged since 1 January, just as the emissions standards kicked in, and will reach 10% this year and 15% in 2021. But Transport & Environment (T&E), which analysed sales in the first half of 2020, said the UK supply of electric cars is likely to dry up next year in the absence of British regulations equivalent to those in Europe.