The 27-nation bloc joins more than a dozen other nations which have set deadlines for ending sales of new cars with internal combustion engines (ICE), which emit toxic gasses that are a major driver of climate change
some conflicts of interest there as well. i want to get to this headline in the guardian, i think this is a really dangerous thing happening. in australia, the bank of australia has refused to give loans to people purchasing fossil fuel cars and this, i think coming here already has, when my husband was in congress, joe which, there was something called operation choke point which was the weaponization of bank loans because if the biden administration didn t like your business, whether it was selling firearms or payday lenders they were going to sic the doj on you for investigation. what do banks do, i m not going to give them a loan, i m not going to bank with them, with those types of industries. what is your thought on this kind of weaponization of bank loans and this pressure coming from government? we have something called credit unions here in the united states, locally-owned banks, that will become an important thing for us. we already see it in the firearms industry. if you o
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the uk has pledged to ban the sale of fossil fuel cars in 2030. but it s lagging behind rivals in europe and asia in electric vehicle infrastructure and investment. theo leggett reports. a windswept building site in northumberland. in a few years this will be home to the u.k. s first gigafactory. if all goes to plan, britishvolt s giant facility will be capable of making 300,000 batteries for electric vehicles every year. now the project has the government s seal of approval in the form of funding worth £100 million. that, in turn, has helped the project raise another £i.7 has helped the project raise another £1.7 billion from private investors.- private investors. the fantastic private investors. the fantastic thing - private investors. the fantastic thing today i private investors. the | fantastic thing today is private investors. tie: fantastic thing today is the announcement of government support for the project. from the atf the automotive transformation fun. and what that al
of time but we are seeing these things over and over again and i think the net result of that is to get really people thinking about climate change and asjohn kerry talked about, just now, getting younger people to appreciate the impact of climate change. his language is certainly of climate change. his language is certainly urgent of climate change. his language is certainly urgent enough. - is certainly urgent enough. peter, thank you. we will illustrate some of the things peter is talking about on a raft of different weather or climate stories around the world. let s get some world. climate related news. the french parliament has approved a climate change law that environmentalists say falls far short of its initial objective. most fossil fuel cars will be banned from 2030, and single use polystyrene food containers from 2025. but the offence of ecocide killing the environment will be the equivalent of a misdemeanour, not a crime, as environmentalists had demanded. an expedi