June, 2009

As Senator Fielding did his bit to “blow apart the great global warming scare” , Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama discussed the issue of global warming with US President Barack Obama during a phone call yesterday.

The Senate today passed a Greens motion demanding that the Government require Treasury to model the 40% cuts below 1990 levels that we know are necessary. But, within an hour, Minister Wong had thumbed her nose at the Senate and the planet, telling CE Daily that the Government “had already undertaken the largest economic modelling [...]

The Greens senator has laid bare the climate change facts better than any other politician.

It’s been two days days since the White House released the most significant government paper on climate change to date, and yet commentators seem to have mostly ignored it. Why?

“It’s our future, and I want to make it better,” was the reason one of our high school volunteers gave me when I asked her why she started to volunteer with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. Our offices (in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane) have been full of new volunteers in the past few weeks, coming [...]

Despite all of the dithering over the ETS here in Australia and the post-Kyoto international agreement, the transition to a clean energy economy is slowly gathering pace. Recenly announced figures from the UN, reported in the Guardian show that last year, global investment in renewable energy surpassed investment in fossil fuel energy for the first [...]