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The Guardian reports NRDC analysis that Drax planned data centre could emit nearly twice the yearly CO2 of every Gatwick flight, which Drax disputes.

Triple Pundit, ESG Today, Corporate Knights, CTVC, Semaphore and Axios all covered the backlash.

Top three mind-blowing environmental facts from this week.

Rotting food waste causes up to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions, nearly five times the entire aviation sector.

This came via UN News.

And number two, much of the US power grid runs at 40% of its capacity for most of the year because it is built for the hottest days.

This came via CTVC.

And 10 years ago this week, the Kigali Amendment set out to phase down HFC's super pollutants, a deal estimated to avoid up to 0.5 degrees centigrade of warming by 2100.