Info: Politics & policy
POLITICS - AUSTRALIA
Supplier rewarded for higher emissions
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/supplier-rewarded-for-
higher-emissions/2007/08/06/1186252631491.html
Wendy Frew, SMH, August 7, 2007
THE State Government is paying Snowy Hydro tens of thousands of dollars as a reward for cutting its greenhouse gas pollution even though its emissions have actually increased.
PM's green plan 'lacking detail'
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/pms-green-plan-lacking-detail/2007/07/17/1184559789278.html
Katharine Murphy, the Age, July 18, 2007
Climate policy failing: industry
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/climate-policy-failing-industry/2007/07/17/1184559787957.html
Mathew Murphy, the Age, July 18, 2007
NSW Govt accused of breaking greenhouse promise
http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/19/1982408.htm
ABC News, Jul 19, 2007
Worst polluters 'off the hook' under Howard
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/18/1981844.htm
Adele O'Hare, Jul 18, 2007
State binge puts doubt on ALP climate policies
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/state-binge-puts-doubt-on-alp-climate-policies/2007/07/15/1184438149608.html
Wendy Frew, SMH, July 16, 2007
Australia's climate myths
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/state-binge-puts-doubt-on-alp-climate-policies/2007/07/15/1184438149608.html
Tim Colebatch, The Age, June 19, 2007
Most Australians who go to Europe find it a rather pleasant place. Yet for John Howard and his ministers, Europe seems to be always the enemy, the bad guy, a punching bag we ought to whack at every opportunity
Time running out for an honest climate debate
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/time-running-out-for-honest-climate-debate
/2007/06/06/1181089148076.html
Kenneth Davidson, The Age, 7 June 2007
It is not possible to have an honest debate about the policies needed to deal with Australia's contribution to global warming in an election year.
The PM spins new climate of fear
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-pm-spins-new-climate-of-fear/
2007/06/08/1181089323501.html
Ian Dunlop, The Age, 9 June 2007
Australian emissions must fall 90 per cent by 2050, far more than the Government would have us believe.
Turnbull's hypocrisy on climate
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/turnbulls-hypocrisy-on-climate/
2007/05/03/1177788306127.html
Ian Dunlop, The Age, May 4, 2007
Speak of what you know, Prime Minister
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/whole-lot-of-hot-air/
2007/04/29/1177787966108.html
Richard Baker, The Age, April 30, 2007
The Prime Minister's attack on the "crazy" pledges by Labor and the Greens to slash Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 has, in fact, highlighted his Government's lazy and negligent approach to climate change during the past decade.
Half truths flourish in the political hothouse
http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/half-truths-flourish-in-the-political- hothouse/
2007/04/27/1177459976454.html
Ross Gittins, SHM, April 28, 2007
Kevin Rudd's Labor says it wants to cut Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent by 2050. Not to be outdone, the Greens say they want an 80 per cent cut.
Labor commissions climate change study
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1910460.htm
PM - Monday, 30 April ,2007
Mr Rudd has commissioned the respected economist Professor Ross Garnaut to look into the costs of climate change, just as Sir Nicholas Stern did for Tony Blair in Britain.
Howard undermined on climate
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/pm-undermined-on-climate/
2007/04/24/1177180651382.html
Liz Minchin and Farrah Tomazin, The Age, April 25, 2007
CSIRO has undermined Howard's position on climate change by advising that big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions appear to be both inevitable and affordable for Australia
Greens set ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2007/s1905388.htm
ABC RAdio The World Today, 24 April 2007
The Greens have set an ambitious target of an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050.
Malcolm Turnbull coughs and splutters on Lateline
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1885183.htm
ABC TV Lateline 29/03/2007
Howard's punt is on the money
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/howards-punt-is-on-the-money/
2007/03/29/1174761664002.html
Peter Hartcher, Sydney Morning Herald, March 30, 2007
John Howard is talking global warming nonsense, but in the confident expectation that we don't care enough to call his bluff.
Burnt and hostile: just what we need
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/burnt-and-hostile-just-what-we-need/
2006/12/20/1166290612689.html
by Tim Flannery, The Age, December 21, 2006
POLITICS - GLOBAL
U.N. climate meeting ends with a whole lotta nothin'
http://www.grist.org/news/2007/08/31/un/index.html
ALSO
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/31/international/i110613D74.DTL
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Climate change: Kyoto Poker to start in earnest
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gYV9AN9poNripD25PDXhOw5Mr2Kg
Can Murdoch save the planet?
http://www.marklynas.org/2007/5/17/can-murdoch-save-the-planet
Mark Lynas, Guardian, 17 May 2007
Rupert Murdoch has promised to make his media empire carbon-neutral by 2010. He’s not the first tycoon to boast about his green plans – but will it actually make any difference? Mark Lynas investigates
Japan to seek 50% global emissions cut at G-8 meet
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070509a1.html
Kyodo News / Japan Times, 9 May 2007
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will propose global steps aimed at halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 from current levels during next month's Group of Eight summit, and has already gotten U.S. President George W. Bush's promise to cooperate, sources said Tuesday.
Saudis blocking reductions in fossil-fuel consumption
http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19426013.400
New Scientist, 27 April 2007
"THEIR objective was to make it more difficult for decision-makers to connect actions with risks. Because they want to sell oil? Probably."
Ireland's Green Party calls for 3 per cent a year cut in GHG emissions
www.pointcarbon.com
5 April 2007
Ireland's Greens will push the party that wins the general election to cut greenhouse gases by 3 per cent a year over the next decade, the party said on Thursday.
POLITICS - INTERFERENCE IN SCIENCE
Climate change expert slates US 'interference' in research
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2037620,00.html
by James Randerson, Guardian Unlimited, March 19, 2007
The Bush administration's interference in climate change science has revealed "flaws that have developed in the functioning of our democracy", according to a leading US climate scientist. m.
Climate report 'was watered down'
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19325943.900
Fred Pearce, New Scientist, 8 March 2007
British researchers who have seen drafts of last month's report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claim it was significantly watered down when governments became involved in writing it.
The Real Climate Censorship
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007/04/10/the-real-climate-censorship/
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian, 10 April 2007
It’s happening, it’s systematic, and it is precisely the opposite story to the one the papers are telling. The drafting of reports by the world’s pre-eminent group of climate scientists is an odd process.
POLITICS - UK
Public confused about climate change, says Miliband
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2095284,00.html
Matthew Tempest, The Guardian, June 4, 2007
Mr Miliband stressed that there was no "safe" level of climate change, with even the proposed action to limit the rise in global temperatures to only two degrees resulting in regular 50-degree summers in Berlin and continental Europe by mid-century.
Blitz spirit needed to face threat of climate change
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2074787,00.html
Michael Meacher, The Guardian, May 9, 2007
The government's climate change bill has nowhere near the vision commensurate to the scale of the threat. .
'Only wealthiest will be able to afford solar panels'
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2527735.ece
By Martin Hickman, The Independent, 10 May 2007
Solar and wind power will be unaffordable to all but the "wealthiest homes" it was claimed yesterday after the Government cut the maximum grant for their installation by 83 per cent.
Miliband calls for worldwide 'ecological conversion'
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2066151,00.html
Mark Oliver, Guardian, April 26, 2007
Climate change must be tackled through a coalition grounded in morality and ethics, the environment secretary, David Miliband, told a Vatican conference today.
One small step for the politicians
http://www.marklynas.org/2007/3/23/one-small-step-for-the-politicians
Mark Lynas, New Statesman, 19 March 2007
Two speeches and a draft bill may not make for a revolution, but Mark Lynas hails a significant shift in the green agenda for UK and global politics.
Miliband warns of climate changes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6231925.stm
Britons will have to change every aspect of their lives if they are to tackle climate change, Environment Secretary David Miliband has said.
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