Weekly News 2nd February 2020

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Climate battle must start right now, says Bishop of Salisbury
THE Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Revd Nick Holtam, the Church of England’s lead bishop on environmental issues, is writing to all bishops and diocesan secretaries this week, in response to the target set at the General Synod last week to reduce gre...
Bishops warn against the use of non-native trees in climate fight
THE fight against tree disease might be a “losing battle”, the Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith, has warned. Speaking in a House of Lords debate on tree pests and diseases on Thursday of last week, Dr Smith suggested that disease might undermine...
UN warns of humanitarian horror story in Syria
SYRIA is on the brink of the biggest humanitarian horror story of the 21st century, unless international powers put aside their own interests, the UN Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, Sir Mark Lowcock, said this week. In recent weeks, 900,000 people ...
Use of algorithms in public sector should be regulated, Lords told
THERE needs to be “effective regulation, standards, and codes of practice” of the use of algorithms in the public sector, the Bishop of Oxford, Dr Steven Croft, has said. Speaking in a debate in the House of Lords on the full implicati...