Stay tuned for the release tomorrow of an investigative piece by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
According to their website…
“Starting in July 2009, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists fielded an eight-country team of reporters to uncover the special interests attempting to influence negotiations on a global climate change treaty. Relying on more than 200 [...]
The global climate talks are hotting up. This week, negotiators are meeting in Barcelona for the last week of discussions before the Copenhagen meeting in December.
There is a lot at stake. Arguably it is the future of the planet. Some countries are literally fighting for their survival while other countries are fighting to defend the [...]
As I was saying in my post a couple of weeks back, the Australian Coal Association have hired the big guns to help them bully the Government into giving them a massive compensation payout through the emissions trading scheme. Neil Lawrence of Kevin 07 fame, has designed the “coalmine09″ campaign which is running in coal [...]
Ever belligerent, it would appear that the NSW Government are determined to build new coal power stations in spite of everything we know about climate change.
The department of planning this week released documents outlining plans for a new coal or gas plant at Mt Piper (near the Blue Mountains) and Bayswater in the Hunter valley.
The [...]
The front page of the Oz revealed today that advertising guru Neil Lawrence has moved seamlessly from Kev to coal. The architect of the Kevin07 campaign is going to be lending his creative services to the coal industry in their attempts to extract even more public subsidies from the Government in order to avoid having [...]
Ok, sorry about the tabloid title, but this is a pretty disturbing story. Following my earlier post about the Pacific Island Forum, here is the analysis of the PIF from Shirley Atatagi – climate political advisor for Greenpeace in the Pacific.
International climate negotiations just got dirty, even if the final stage hasn’t started. Australia and [...]
Pacific leaders are meeting in Cairns today for the Pacific Island Forum. In recent years the agenda has been dominated by issues of regional stability including the intervention in the Solomons and more recently the troubling political events in Fiji. But with the forum happening in Australia for the first time in over a decade, [...]
Dear Martin,
Thanks for your brilliant treatise in the Australian this morning. It is inspiring to see that one with so much responsibility is blessed with such vision.
The rigour with which you swept away ideology and ‘green faith’ with cold hard facts revealed your own unswerving commitment to rational analysis and objectivity. It was a shame [...]
Australia is becoming a laughing stock. The country blessed with some of the most abundant renewable energy resources on earth is rapidly squandering our poll position in the race to a clean energy future.
A friend of mine just returned from the PV Japan conference where he said people were asking if it is true that [...]
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 [...]
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