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 NSW climate change crisis: leaked cabinet documents show
Friday, 04 July 2008
Greens MP Lee Rhiannon says Cabinet documents leaked to the Greens show the NSW government is failing dismally to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets set out in the State Plan (Sydney Morning Herald, page 6).
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Garnaut challenges Iemma govt to find new direction on energy
The publication of the draft report of the Garnaut Climate Change Review is the beginning of the end for the climate denial policies of NSW Treasurer Michael Costa and Premier Morris Iemma, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
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Discounting the Productivity Commission on Stern
Friday, 25 January 2008, Crikey
Australian Greens Climate Change Spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne
The Productivity Commission's clear attempt this morning to influence the outcome of the Garnaut Review may be couched in detached and academic language, but its implications are profound.
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Roadmap without a destination, but direction is clear: Rudd must not wait to start moving.
Canberra, Monday 17 December 2007
Australian Greens climate change spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, today called on the Rudd Government to move decisively at home to begin cutting emissions and not take the equivocating Bali path which helped water down agreement. A first strong and sensible step would be to adopt the Greens energy efficiency policy, EASI.
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Income to dwarf energy price rises
Ross Gittins
SMH, November 21, 2007
According to the scientists behind the latest United Nations report on climate change, slowing and reversing global warming is the defining challenge of our age and there's not a moment to lose. I think many, probably most voters, would agree with that. And yet climate change has had surprisingly little attention in this election campaign.
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'Cloud-making', 'clean coal' and nukes vs efficiency and renewables
Hobart, Wednesday 20 November 2007
Australian Greens climate change spokesperson, Senator Christine Milne, today called on Australian voters to reject the spurious, slow and expensive technofixes presented by the Government in favour of the Greens' commonsense, systematic and coherent climate change and water policies.
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Bob Brown says John Howard's approach to climate change has been one of 'extreme negligence' (File photo). (AAP Image: Andrew Sheargold)
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Greens accuse PM of climate change negligence
SMH, Nov 18th, 2007
Greens leader Bob Brown has accused Prime Minister John Howard of leading Australia into a climate change catastrophe.
The Greens have launched a Six Step Climate Change Action Plan, which sets out policies that the party says would see Australia play a leading role in fighting global warming.
The Greens' action plan follows the release a new report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which warns of more heat waves, melting glaciers and rising sea levels unless immediate action is taken.
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The inventory lists CO2 emissions from more than 4,000 companies
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Australians named worst emitters
A study of the world's power stations has shown the extent to which developed countries produce more carbon dioxide per head than emerging economies.
Australians were found to be the world's worst polluters per capita, producing five times as much carbon from generating power as China.
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People at the Walk Against Warming march in Sydney today. (AAP: Amos Aikman)
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Tens of thousands march for climate change action
ABC News, 11/11/2007
Australians in 60 cities and towns have taken to the streets today to ask the major political parties to make a stronger commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The national day of action aimed to draw attention to global warming and pressure the political parties to address the issue.
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Clean coal a furphy, says Dr Karl
Paul Bibby
SMH, November 2, 2007
THE CELEBRITY scientist and Climate Change Coalition candidate for the Senate, Karl Kruszelnicki, has described clean coal as a "complete furphy", likening it to Nazi propaganda.
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Acid Oceans Increasing Rapidly
We've known for a while that ocean acidification is a bad bad thing. Now new research into corals using boron isotopes indicates the world-ocean has become about one third of a pH unit more acid over the past fifty years, reports the Australian Research Council.
The acidity is caused by a CO2 buildup in the atmosphere, which then dissolves into the oceans—a development likely to be lethal for animals with chalky skeletons, who just happen to comprise more than a third of the planet’s marine life.
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Don Henry, from the Australian Conservation Foundation, says the major parties are not doing enough for the environment. (File photo) (The 7:30 Report)
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Coalition, Labor fail green test
The two major political parties have both been dealt scores of below 50 out of 100 on their environment policies, in an assessment carried out by the Australian Conservation Foundation.
The group has released a scoreboard for all parties on their policies on climate change, water, forests and sustainable cities.
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Susan Jarnason, Sue Mahony and Kerry Nettle
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Greens pressure ANZ over pulp mill project
October 10, 2007 - 2:41PM, SMH
The Greens have targeted the ANZ bank in their campaign to prevent the construction of a pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar Valley.
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Bob & friends
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Dangerous climate change barrier crossed on Howard's watch
Pulp Mill process has been botched by Turnbull
The revelation by Australian of the Year, scientist Tim Flannery, (on ABC Lateline last night) that the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that could cause dangerous climate change was passed in mid-2005 highlights the culpability of Prime Minister John Howard in failing to act over the last decade, Greens Leader Bob Brown said in Melbourne today.
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Gone: Mass Extinction and the Hazards of Earth's Vanishing Biodiversity
It is a fact widely accepted by biologists but little known by the population at large. By the end of the century, half of all species on Earth may be extinct due to global warming and other causes. Who will survive the world's dwindling biodiversity, and why?
Julia Whitty
April 25 , 2007
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The Case for Resilience
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Diesel-Driven Bee Slums and Impotent Turkeys
By Chip Ward
Resilience. You may not have heard much about it, but brace yourself. You're going to hear that word a lot in the future. It is what we have too little of as our world slips into unpredictable climate chaos. "Resilience thinking," the cutting edge of environmental science, may someday replace "efficiency" as the organizing principle of our economy.
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International Standards Needed for Wave and Tidal Energy
Geneva, Switzerland [RenewableEnergyAccess.com]
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the global body for electrical energy standards, is recruiting experts from around the world to develop International Standards for wave and tidal energy technology that will help establish this source of renewable energy as a competitive form of electrical energy production.
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Report of the Task Group on Emissions Trading
The report can be found here
www.pmc.gov.au/publications/emissions/index.cfm |
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PV skylights at a train station in Germany manufactured by Atlantis Energy Systems, Inc. Germany installed 100,000 solar systems in 2006, representing 750 MW of solar-electric generation.
Credit: Atlantis Energy Systems, Inc.
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PV Costs to Decrease 40% by 2010
RenewableEnergyAccess.com
The solar industry is poised for a rapid decline in costs that will make it a mainstream power option in the next few years, according to a new assessment by the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Prometheus Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"To say that Chinese PV producers plan to expand production rapidly in the year ahead would be an understatement. They have raised billions from international IPOs to build capacity and increase scale with the goal of driving down costs. Four Chinese IPOs are expected to come to market this month alone." Travis Bradford, Prometheus Institute, president
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published by Black Inc
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These lies will end in our misery
Clive Hamilton
SMH, May 9, 2007
Propaganda often works through fabrications so audacious that it is hard to know how to respond. This technique has been adopted by the federal Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, in his frequent claim that Australia is "leading the world" in the response to the climate crisis.
To counter the view at home and abroad that Australia is a pariah in efforts to tackle global warming, the Government has campaigned relentlessly to persuade voters the opposite is the case. To succeed it must somehow undo the hold of the facts.
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Councillor Chris Harris
At a Council meeting on the 15th of March, the Lord Mayor moved a mayoral minute (delivered to councillors 25 minutes before the meeting), which was supported Clover Moore Party “independents†and the Liberal Councillor, to abandon plans to build a skate park at the Millers Point site underneath a busy freeway (for background information on the site, [...]
I have serious concerns about the tender process that appears to have been designed to place the City’s tennis courts under the management of a single operator. Should the recommendation of council staff be adopted the operator at Ruchcutters Bay tennis courts will be tossed out after 25 years of service to the community. The [...]
Hot on the heels of their destruction of the habitat area at Orphan School Creek with the freshly laid concrete zig zag path, the Clover Moore Party are at it again across the road in Johnstons Canal with more habitat destruction. The proposal is a bike path that links the shared pathway emerging from Orphan [...]
The Barangaroo Authority conducted a presentation of the design ideas of British architect Richard Rogers at the City Recital Hall on 23rd February. The presentation visuals showed attractive buildings and public spaces that interfaced with the water at the city’s western edge with a light rail service passing down Hickson Rd.
One key component of the [...]
At a council meeting of the City of Sydney on 22nd February Clover Moore Party
members and the Liberal councilor voted in tandem to donate public ratepayer funds to two private enterprises setting up in the City’s laneways.
The first donation to set up a new bar was approved outright.  The second grant, to the Moran Arts Foundation Ltd, was recommended [...]
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