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1/5/2013
The dramatic fall in Europe’s
carbon price in April led to claims emissions
trading had failed as a model for addressing climate change. While the low EU price is problematic for the EU and Australia (by virtue of our linkage with the EU),
carbon ...
24/10/2012
“DRILL, baby, drill.” It is among the best-remembered lines of the 2008 presidential campaign, colorfully capturing the desire of many Americans for cheap, reliable energy produced at home rather than in unpredictable places like Iran or ...
4/9/2012
Shaking off the dust of decades of US environmental inaction, he rode to power on a promise to slash US emissions by 80 percent by 2050, becoming not just America's, but the world's environmental candidate, preaching a rhetoric of hope that ...
27/9/2011
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8/3/2011
The commission makes the economic case for acceleration, but the
politics are a little more opaque Continue reading the main storyEU nations must invest more in energy efficiency and green technologies in order to retain economic advantages, ...
27/1/2011
As my fellow Queenslanders clean up after the most violent, destructive and lethal flooding in the recorded history of the state, we cannot say we have not been warned.
According to climate scientists extreme weather events - torrential ...
29/7/2010
Following the rocky path of climate legislation in the U.S. Congress these past years brought me back to the 1980s, and my time as a crime reporter in New York City. After a shooting in those days, a homicide detective named Marty Davin would go ...
28/7/2010
John 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 ...
24/6/2010
Australian
politics has never been conducted in half-measures. But even seasoned observers have been struck by the swift and ruthless brutality with which Kevin Rudd has been replaced as prime minister.
Earlier today, as the result of a ...
13/6/2010
Christiana Figueres startled delegates when she addressed the United Nations climate conference in Bonn last week: “I do not believe we will ever have a final agreement on climate change, certainly not in my lifetime,” the Costa Rican diplomat ...
26/5/2010
Connie Hedegaard, the EU's Climate Commissioner, is seeking to open a debate on whether the bloc should adopt a tougher target than it already has for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Back in the early months of last year, EU leaders ...
27/4/2010
One of the most pleasing aspects of this election campaign is the fact that climate change has become part of the discourse of mainstream
politics. All three of the major parties have signed up in their manifestos to cut our national
carbon ...
13/3/2010
In 1993, three years into her presidency of Ireland, Mary Robinson paid a visit to west Belfast. The trip was controversial before she went – the Irish government didn't want her there, and neither did the British – but it became far more ...
21/2/2010
ISSUES of climate change and sustainability have been reduced to a political contest between two bulls in a paddock. Labor took its 2007 election mandate and, with little consultation with other parties on a policy for future decades, adopted a ...
13/12/2009
1. Cap and Trade: An Unserious Policy Framework for Humanity’s Most Serious Challenge
In a few days in Copenhagen, world leaders will debate and, we hope, agree upon aggressive targets for humanity’s greatest challenge to date: to avert ...
26/11/2009
Investors welcomed new China and U.S. climate targets 10 days before a U.N. summit but an Australian
carbon vote delay hinted at wider difficulties to cement a global deal.
Traders in a $126 billion
carbon market want tight climate ...
4/10/2009
Back in April 2006, David Cameron handed out silver birch saplings to journalists at a press conference in which he urged voters to "vote blue, go green". The next day, the Tory leader of four months was photographed perched on the melting ...
30/3/2009
If you were casting for a film about a policy academic in Whitehall, and Nicholas Stern auditioned, you would reject him on the grounds that he looked so much like a cliche that he would be a caricature. If you were casting for the rock star of ...
20/3/2009
Australia's government has angrily dismissed claims that it's determined on a low, five percent cut in greenhouse gases.
It comes as two Australian climate experts say that climate change is the moral issue of our time, requiring action, ...
1/3/2009
Until recently, the idea that the world’s most powerful nations might come together to tackle global warming seemed an environmentalist’s pipe dream.The Kyoto Protocol, signed in 1997, was widely viewed as badly flawed. Many countries ...
27/2/2009
Hungary - a major seller of
carbon credits– will weaken its credibility in the growing international
carbon markets by using revenues to prop up its budget rather than improve energy efficiency and green its energy production, WWF-Hungary has ...
19/2/2009
Barack Obama's presidency is ushering in a new era of North American co-operation against climate change after George W. Bush's inaction held back Canada's ability to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions, Stephen Harper says.In Mr. Obama's ...
15/12/2008
KEVIN Rudd became a target himself today after he announced modest and conditional targets to cut greenhouse gases, thought to be responsible for global warming.
As the Prime Minister said there would be an unconditional 5 per cent cut ...
12/12/2008
Securing a deal on the wide-ranging EU climate change package was a key goal of the French EU presidency, which will hand over to the Czechs in January.The deal agreed at the EU summit in Brussels on Friday keeps the European Commission's ...
9/12/2008
At a high-level academic conference on global warming at Exeter University this summer, climate scientist Kevin Anderson stood before his expert audience and contemplated a strange feeling. He wanted to be wrong. Many of those in the room who ...