Farmers and parents have slammed Blue Peter for encouraging children to stop eating meat after the TV show urged viewers to go vegetarian for a climate change challenge.
The children s series is offering green badges - similar to the famous blue ones - to youngsters who are environmentally friendly as part of a two-week pledge.
Sports teams can also apply for their whole group to become climate heroes by switching off lights and appliances when they leave the room, alongside drinking from reusable water bottles.
They can further receive the badge by choosing a vegetarian option for a meal, with the BBC show listing plants as one of their supersized pledges .
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Elon Muskâs Tesla lobbied the UK government to raise taxes on petrol and diesel cars in order to fund bigger subsidies for electric vehicles, alongside a ban on hybrids.
The US electric car pioneer called for a rise in fuel duty and a charge on petrol and diesel car purchases to pay for grants and tax breaks such as a VAT exemption for battery-powered cars, according to submissions to the government seen by the Guardian.
The proposals would theoretically add thousands of pounds to the cost of a new petrol or diesel car, while making electric cars cheaper.
MORE than 200 staff and postgraduate researchers at the University of Leeds have asked a cabinet minister to call in the decision on Leeds Bradford Airport. The airport’s planning application was given conditional approval by Leeds City Council on February 11 but campaigners say there should be Government-intervention as it threatens the UK s legally adopted net-zero target. Impact on the climate needs to be assessed The signatories, including 46 professors and associate professors, say that expanding LBA’s passenger numbers by 75 per cent exceeds the maximum rate of growth that the Climate Change Committee considers compatible with the UK’s legally adopted net-zero target.
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