Do you bemoan the fact that very few of our so-called “leaders” in the world of business and politics actually demonstrate true leadership?
Ask yourself this: how many of these figures make really tough decisions that are in our long-term best interests? How many have the courage to stick with those decisions? How many have the [...]
Imagine a world without water.
I’ve just returned from a few days in Melbourne, where I’d been for some meetings, a conference, and a keynote speech at the Young Water Professionals annual meeting, part of the Australian Water Association’s national conference, OzWater 2009.
Preparing for that speech got me thinking. As a climate activist, I think [...]
The issue of voluntary action under the CPRS is one that the Government has tried to avoid talking about since last year. Now it’s finally getting media attention.
Penny Wong argued in an op-ed in The Australian on Monday that:
“There has also been misunderstanding of the impact voluntary action by households can have under a cap-and-trade [...]
A group of ten Australian economists today slammed the Rudd government’s proposed carbon emissions trading scheme, and called for a science-based policy to achieve 25%-40% cuts in emissions by 2020.
This is their statement:
The Australian government is to be congratulated for its decision to take part in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, [...]
A consultation paper outlining a proposed amendment to the National Greenhouse Energy and Reporting Act 2007 (NGER Act) has been released on the Department of Climate Change website. The proposed amendment would remove the requirement for the Greenhouse and Energy Data Officer to publicly disclose corporate-level energy production data.
The NGER act regulates the reporting [...]
“Be the trouble you wish to see in the world,” read Lee’s t-shirt yesterday as he stood in front of the 500-odd people gathered at the People’s Climate Action summit in Canberra. During the day, participants had broken up into sessions to debate various issues and come up with proposals for the whole group.
Lee was [...]
The following post is an extract from email I received from my friend Deepa Gupta, who co-founded the Indian Youth Climate Network. She’s travelling around India with a group of Indian youth in solar-powered electric cars. I find what she’s doing so inspiring that I wanted to share it with you all.
On a side [...]
Will Australian politics on climate change move to a situation like in the UK, where both parties are trying to out-do each other on better climate policy? Will we have a “race to the top” rather than a “race to the bottom” on how fast and efficiently Australia can reduce our emissions?
The front page [...]
AL Gore addressed delegates in Poznan, Poland, near the end of the UN Climate Talks. It’s a pretty great speech – especially the part where he mentions 350 parts per million (and you can see the international youth caucus get and give him a standing ovation for it).
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