LAST year was the coldest year around the world since 2000 — yet it was still the 10th hottest since records began in 1850, monitoring by British researchers has shown. It was a similar story in Australia, and especially in Victoria, where this decade ...
THE world will fail to halt global warming in time unless key developing countries join the West in slashing carbon emissions "substantially below business as usual", the world's chief energy watchdog has warned. The executive director of the ...
ON A wide, flat plain in Germany's depressed north-east, one of the keys to our future has begun turning. Beside a giant power station known as Schwarze Pumpe (Black Pump), a small plant has begun to capture the carbon released when brown coal is ...
OPPOSITION Leader Brendan Nelson has flagged a looming confrontation with the Rudd Government on climate change, saying there is "a high probability" that the Coalition will oppose the Government's blueprint to tackle global warming. As world oil ...
Solar panels at work in Melbourne. Photo: Szencorp Sustainable Development AUSTRALIA is taking a wrong path by offering subsidies to install solar rooftop panels, instead of promising households high prices if they sell excess power to the grid, a ...
A GLOBAL agreement binding all significant countries, rich and poor, offers the best hope for tackling climate change, and could halve the cost of countries trying to tackle it alone, the International Monetary Fund advises. In its latest World ...
This will be one of the issues that defines the Rudd Government. 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 ...
AUSTRALIA is the ninth biggest contributor to increased global carbon emissions, a new World Bank report has found. The bank report shows that between 1994 and 2004, Australia's annual emissions of carbon dioxide (the world's main greenhouse gas) ...
THERE's one of two things happening out there on climate change. Either the Coalition and Labor are combining to pull the wool over our eyes on what we want from a Kyoto II global agreement or they are positioning Australia yet again to walk out on a ...
On behalf of polar bears everywhere, an APEC declaration. Photo: Reuters APEC was never going to be the forum in which the world's biggest greenhouse gas polluters negotiated new limits on their emissions. What they were trying to negotiate was a ...
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