TREASURY modelling the Government is depending upon to develop an effective emissions trading system assumes clean coal technology will be commercially available from 2020, an assumption questioned by environmental groups. "I don't think we should be ...
Clean coal future? Contractor Peter Dumesny at the Nirranda South carbon capture site near Peterborough in Victoria's south-west. Photo: Robin Sharrock PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is today expected to outline a leading role for Australia in a new ...
GOVERNMENT climate change adviser Ross Garnaut will today argue the case for measuring greenhouse emissions on a per capita basis as he advises how much Australia should cut its atmospheric pollution by 2020. Professor Garnaut will release the first ...
KEY aspects of last week's major report on climate change will be rejected by the Federal Government. These will include the treatment of petrol in a carbon emissions trading scheme, and compensation for electricity generators. The Government is also ...
GLOBAL greenhouse gas emissions are growing far more rapidly than even the most pessimistic estimates developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Government's adviser on global warming warned. Professor Ross Garnaut has projected ...
A LEADING authority on climate change says Australia's greenhouse gas reduction targets are inadequate, and all industrialised countries should be aiming to become carbon neutral. Bill Hare, a lead author on the latest report (2007) from ...
AUSTRALIA is back on track to meet its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. A Department of Climate Change audit of greenhouse gas emissions, obtained by The Age, indicates that Australia will meet, but not beat, its Kyoto target of 108% of 1990 ...
ROSS Garnaut's interim report on climate change has opened up divisions at both ends of the political spectrum. On the left, the Greens are attacking the Government for not embracing the need for more ambitious greenhouse reduction targets, while on ...
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