Climate change big issue for new government
The National Farmers Federation wants a guarantee that agriculture will be exempt from future carbon charges, after climate change became a key issue for the returned Federal Labor Government.
Click here for full storyONE of the world's leading climate change experts, Sir Nicholas Stern, has warned countries such as Australia will face future trade barriers unless it moves to a low-carbon economy.
In a speech to the National Press Club yesterday, Lord Stern said the world should embrace what he called the ''new industrial revolution'' of cleaner technologies and renewable energy.
''Not participating in this new industrial revolution runs two types of risk: you drop behind technologically and you risk, not tomorrow or the next day but 10 or so years from now, finding real difficulty in the trade story,'' he said. ''Ten or 15 years from now, those that produce in dirty ways are likely to face trade barriers.''
Click here for full storyA major report handed to the United Nations in New York overnight recommends a big shake-up of the way the international body's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is run.
Click here for full storyAustralia’s clean energy industry urges Federal Independent MPs to back whichever party will deliver a carbon price as soon as possible and provide the optimal conditions for investment in renewable energy.
Click here for full storyDry water might sound like an oxymoron but the concept is pretty straightforward: encapsulate microdrops of water in silica (otherwise known as common sand) to form a substance that looks like powdered sugar, then sit back and watch the fun. Though it was first discovered in 1968, the unique properties of dry water are only recently being recognized as an important tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Click here for full storyThe tipping point for climate change, after which many of its most destructive effects will become irreversible, strongly suggests that atmospheric CO2 must be reduced from its current level of 390 ppm to "well below 350 ppm‚ significantly closer to pre-industrial concentrations of 285 ppm," according to a recent report by Beyond Zero Emissions, an Australian nonprofit organization.
Click here for full storyChina, facing the risk of embarrassment if it misses a looming environmental deadline, has ordered thousands of companies to close high-polluting plants as its leadership vies to retool economic growth.
Click here for full storyAmid the hurly-burly of the election campaign, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been stalked by an unusual protester: an elephant. Its accompanying sign reads: "The elephant is in the room: reduce (carbon) pollution."
Click here for full storyCLIMATE change, education and immigration are the top three political issues Australians seek on the internet, new research reveals.
Click here for full storyClimate change is the most popular search engine query election issue, followed by education then immigration, according to Experian Hitwis
Click here for full storyA new report by analyst Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows that global governments’ support for fossil fuel industry is about 10 times that offered to renewable energy says the WA Sustainable Energy Association Inc. (WA SEA).
Click here for full storyGillard believes and Abbott doesn't - but neither will do anything anyway. Let's try a round of word association. China on climate change. What's the first thing that comes to mind? For those paying passing attention to what qualifies as a climate change debate in Australia, the answer is likely to be: villain-in-chief.
Click here for full storyTRANSITION to a low-emission global economy is "vital", Rio Tinto's Doug Ritchie said today. At the same time, the miner’s energy chief said climate change “represents uncertainty and potential volatility to the mining industry”.
Click here for full storyTONY ABBOTT has restated his sceptical views on climate change, and suggested the world may be getting cooler, as the Australian Academy of Science released a new report warning of the future impact of global warming.
Click here for full storyA new survey of Australian politicians shows a clear majority believe climate change is happening, but many appear to be unsure about some of its consequences.
Click here for full storyOur political leaders are facing firmly inward at a time when a multiplicity of problems require a global solution.
Click here for full storyThe policy agenda on climate change of the two major parties is dominated by two disturbing trends. The Coalition has become more resolute in its refusal to consider a carbon price and the ALP has outsourced policy leadership to consensus builders within a citizen's assembly.
Click here for full storyFewer Australians believe that humans are responsible for climate change, but despite this, the market for environmentally friendly products such as LED bulbs is growing and manufacturers are releasing increasingly innovative and eco-friendly products.
Click here for full storyAustralia is pushing for an ambitious global climate deal at a summit in Germany - an outcome that would increase pressure to sort out domestic climate policy.
Click here for full storyThe Alternative Technology Association (ATA) applauded the Victorian Government’s release of its Climate Change White Paper. “This White Paper sets a new climate change policy and action benchmark for Governments in this country,” said the ATA’s Chief Executive Officer Ian Porter.
Click here for full storyLEADERS at the Pacific Islands Forum will work to make the most of a windfall expected from a $US100 billion ($110 billion) ''climate aid'' fund agreed at climate change talks in Copenhagen.
Click here for full storyCouncils in the UK should do "absolutely nothing" to tackle climate change unless a stringent global deal on reducing carbon emissions is reached through the United Nations, which includes developing as well as developed countries – according to Lord Lawson, writes Dean Carroll.
Click here for full storySwedish Environment Minister lays out his county's approach to climate change negotiations and argues a collaborative approach would put pressure on US and China to agree to a legally binding global climate agreement.
Click here for full storyThree ''exceptional'' heatwaves across Australia in 2009 helped make it the nation's second hottest year on record and contributed to a new worldwide report which has found global warming is for real and has not ''stopped'', as some sceptics have suggested.
Click here for full storyAustralia needs to do more on climate change and have an adequate mining tax, says a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
Click here for full storyJohn F. Kennedy, in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, once said that "victory has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan." Not so climate change legislation, which has now failed in both the US Congress and the Australian Senate.
Click here for full storyDespite the surprise ditching of Kevin Rudd as Australia's 26th prime minister last month, a large proportion of Australians heaved a sigh of relief when he walked the plank. True, he once enjoyed record levels of public support, but people had become heartily fed up by the time he was "assassinated".
Click here for full storyVICTORIA and Australia experienced their second-hottest year on record in 2009, according to a report drawing on research from 48 countries that found evidence of global warming was undeniable.
Click here for full storyPublic health problems will increase unless global governments take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Australia's peak medical body says.
Click here for full storyTHE Prime Minister's recent statement on climate policy covers six main points. First, she asserts her strong belief in man-made climate change, stresses the costs of delaying or not acting to counter it, and emphasises the need to show leadership to chart the way forward and take action to prevent global warming beyond 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.
Click here for full storyI am an ordinary Australian. I grew up in country Victoria, and moved to the city to go to university. My brother is an engineer, my sister studying to be a physiotherapist. My family are farmers and builders and teachers.
Click here for full storyWhile China may be set to embrace emissions trading to tackle greenhouse gases, delayed action remains the order of the day in the United States and Australia, and at the United Nations.
Click here for full storyAustralia's prime minister Julia Gillard has unveiled a revised climate change policy, promising tougher standards for new power stations.
Click here for full storyA survey of groups representing young voters has found climate change, unemployment and education are some of the key issues for the election campaign.
Click here for full storyA GOVERNMENT that is serious about taking action in any given area generally does exactly that - it takes action. After all, that's what our governments are there to do. It's why we elect them, and why they are of such expensive, gargantuan size.
Click here for full storyIn the month following the expansion by the New Zealand government of its emissions trading scheme and less than a fortnight before Australia’s national election, politicians, academics and business leaders will meet at the Australia-New Zealand Climate Change & Business Conference, the annual event for Australia and New Zealand’s carbon community.
Click here for full storyThe coalition has dismissed a key feature of Labor's new climate policy even before Prime Minister Julia Gillard formally unveils it in Brisbane later on Friday.
Click here for full storyKEVIN Rudd is in line for a plum job as a United Nations climate change adviser. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is considering a dedicated role for the dumped former prime minister as a top-level adviser, according to a diplomatic source with direct knowledge of the plan.
Click here for full storyPENNY Wong has promised voters a clear choice on climate change come polling day, but yesterday could not outline Labor's policy position.
Click here for full storyAs state and federal governments announce climate policies that will result in little effect to Australia’s rising greenhouse gas emissions, a new report shows that a 100 per cent renewable electricity supply system implemented in Australia in ten years is technically feasible and affordable
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