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The CO2 emissions from five of Europe’s biggest airports combined surpass those of the whole of Sweden, an airport emissions tracker shows. Largely tax-free, the total emissions from London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt, Amsterdam Schiphol and Madrid Barajas amount to 53 million tonnes of CO2. In 2020, Sweden emitted some 45.4 million metric tonnes of CO2, fewer than the year before.
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
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- Key workers struggling to travel amid fuel crisisPanic buying of petrol has left some key workers unable to get fuel to travel to work.
- Petrol supply: Army gets ready to assist as PM reassures driversBoris Johnson says the fuel situation is
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- Boris Johnson orders investigation into safety of smart motorways [subscription]A reporter working undercover for six weeks in a control room recorded a colleague saying: “We’ve got no signals, you’re all going to die. Whichever God you believe in, start praying now.”
- GB stickers reach the end of the road [subscription]The United Nations said in July that it had received “a notification stating that the United Kingdom is changing the sign that it had previously selected for display in international traffic on vehicles registered in the United Kingdom, from GB to UK.”
The Business Desk
- Eddie Stobart to move into new £75m East Midlands campusDeveloper Prologis is set to build a new, two-unit campus at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (Prologis RFI DIRFT) for haulage firm Eddie Stobart, to allow the company to expand its road and rail operations.
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