Juliet Le Feuvre, a healthy rivers campaigner at Environment Victoria, writes: Federal government water buyback is paying dividends for our river systems — since 2009 the government has delivered almost 600 GL of life-sustaining water to the rivers and wetlands of the Murray-Darling Basin. While the Basin has obviously had a good soaking in that time, [...]
READ MOREOctober, 2011
One of the planet’s “most destructive companies” stresses about Aussie image
Reece Turner, Greenpeace forests campaigner, writes: Recently I attended an auspicious event hosted by the Indonesian Ambassador in Sydney entitled Indonesian Forestry — Charting a Sustainable Path. It was quite a bizarre event and revealed just how concerned the large Indonesian forestry companies are about recent public debates in Australia focussing on rainforest destruction in Indonesia. From concerns about [...]
READ MORECan lawyers save the planet?
Crikey intern Greg Foyster: Lawyers have been called many things over the years, but “greenie” generally isn’t one of them. Yet with politicians hamstrung to address environmental problems, the legal profession is fast becoming our planet’s last line of defence. Once considered “comical”, the concept of legal rights for nature is finally being taken seriously, [...]
READ MORECounting progress towards Durban
Four days in. Three days to go. Two main topics of negotiations. And one important international forum with the responsibility to tackle global climate change.
READ MOREAustralia’s carbon tax battle: where it fits into the global war
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus write: As two Americans watching from the sidelines as Australia tears itself apart over a carbon tax, it is impossible not to be reminded of our own country’s self-destructive battle over cap and trade in 2009 and 2010. And little wonder why: the Left and Right partiesin Australia have adopted [...]
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