Climate change Minister Wong to join Rudd on China tour
Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong will fly out to Beijing today, to join Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on the final leg of his overseas tour.
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Popularity: 38% [?]
Australia: Protesters to ’shut down’ Newcastle
Brisbane Times: Brisbane climate change protesters will head to Newcastle in July in an attempt to shut down the world’s largest coal exporting port. The Camp for Climate Change is being set up in Newcastle, or the nearby Hunter Valley, as a base for hundreds of protesters to take action [...]
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Do or die for threatened species
Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIA needs to urgently identify land that can act as refuges for native wildlife and plants threatened by climate change and decide how to minimise the number of species that will face extinction, a disturbing report by the CSIRO has warned. While saving species should be a [...]
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Australia: Money needed to buy back allocations, experts say
Age: MORE of the $10 billion rescue package for the Murray-Darling Basin should be spent buying back water allocations because climate change makes upgrades to irrigation less effective, environment experts warned yesterday. The Rudd Government yesterday left open the possibility of spending more on purchasing water entitlements [...]
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Green Star keeps shooting higher
In Australia’s increasingly important fight against climate change, the country’s leading green building rating system Green Star is continuing to transform the property industry by going further, becoming easier to use, and certifying buildings faster.
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Govt’s green revenue
New economic modelling shows the government could earn between $7 billion and $20 billion from an emissions trading scheme to combat climate change that could be operating by 2010.
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Australia: Power price rises not ‘overwhelming’
Sydney Morning Herald: An emissions trading scheme will cause a significant but not overwhelming increase in electricity prices, the federal government’s top climate change adviser says. Economist Ross Garnaut believes electricity and petrol prices will inevitably rise under emissions trading. Asked on Sunday how much electricity prices would rise, Professor [...]
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Australia: Warming helps pests at native species’ expense
AAP: As cane toads bear down on WA reports claim climate change gives the introduced pests even more of an advantage over native species. Human responses to climate change, such as increased farming in northern Australia, could also harm fragile birds and animals, the WWF report released today [...]
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Australia: No dodging tough choices on climate change
Age: CLIMATE change will be one of the issues that defines the Rudd Government. It is an issue of tough choices, of clashing values and objectives, in which decisions will have to be made in a fog of uncertainty about how serious the problem is, and what is [...]
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Climate change seen as last nail in coffin for native fauna
Age: SOME of Australia’s most vulnerable native animals could die out as climate change take its toll on their already fragile existence. The warning is contained in a report that catalogues the risks facing 11 species from the impact of rising temperatures and rainfall decline. [...]
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