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The last 7 days: what you might have missed

There are so many things we can do to boost the economy and create jobs, and yet, in what seems like evidence of yet another collective failure of imagination, we choose to build yet another runway for aeroplanes - the cocaine of travel options for which our enthusiasm seems never to be curbed.

Zac Goldsmith just said he'd quit over it. And Greenpeace has never seemed so angry, pledging to take the Government to court over it because it will break air pollution laws.

In the fun game of: "where shall we emigrate to", which so many of us find ourselves playing these days, Spain just moved up the rankings again, not because of the lovely weather and amazing food, but because it is aiming for 100% renewables. Ole, indeed.

Spain isn't alone, even if the UK is behind the curve: renewables just overtook coal globally in the competition for new electricity generation. Although there are still plenty of folk trying to breathe new life back into old energy - read this attempt in yesterday's Times.

Then France, for pity's sake, the home of the Paris Agreement on climate change, backing down on the proposed introduction of a carbon tax. And we thought they were revolutionary.

At least the Clinton campaign is not off the page, even if making a carbon tax a central pillar was dismissed.

Big companies are not doing enough to meet carbon reduction goals, says this FT piece (sorry for yet another paywall).

Yet peak oil is still on its way, around 2025, according to Michael Liebreich, of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And even peak car. According to the Rocky Mountain Institute, electric robo-taxis will be taking over the roads. Sounds good to us.

Want something to do? Sign this 10:10 petition to revive support for onshore wind. It's about time we did and hey, Brexit has given us even more reason to support it.

And here's one for the major fossil fuel companies to buy immediately: the ability to turn carbon dioxide back into fuel. The first one to do this with all its emissions can have the pension funds back.

Oh yes, and Macquarie Bank wants to buy the UK Green Investment Bank. It's hard to know what to think of this, but Richard Branson has been unequivocal.

We do like to end on a high: there's a zero carbon homes policy in London.

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