Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Transport on July 17, 2008 | 18 Comments »
This piece was originally published in today’s Crikey email.
In the coming months before the emissions trading legislation comes before the Senate, the Rudd Government needs to think hard about what it is trying to achieve.
Does it plan to buy into the lowest common denominator populism of the Coalition? This approach drags the debate backwards, undermines [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Renewable energy, Senate, Transport on July 16, 2008 | 16 Comments »
The Rudd Government’s Emissions Trading Green Paper can now be downloaded from the Climate Change Department website here.
I’ve been trying to get to do a post on this since 12.30, but I’m alone in the office with Christine and the phone’s been ringing off the hook - which is a good thing!
We will do a [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Poverty, Renewable energy, Senate, Tax, Transport on July 14, 2008 | 30 Comments »
So the day after tomorrow (ah that hoary old Hollywood chestnut…), Penny Wong will finally release the government’s Green Paper, to which Professor Garnaut is one of many ‘inputs’. Most of the others being big business.
While it won’t be anything like final design, and it won’t include any emissions targets or trajectories, the paper should [...]
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ABC TV watchers amongst you may have seen the promos already for Christine Milne on the newish Q&A program this Thursday night, July 10, at 9.30 pm. She will be on the panel, focussed on ‘Welcome the new Senate’, with Senator Helen Coonan, Minister Craig Emerson, author Linda Jaivin and everybody’s favourite opinionated columnist, Andrew [...]
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In the wake of the release Professor Garnaut’s draft report this morning, Stateline WA ran a well timed piece this evening on the nuclear industry’s unsightly scramble for a place at the climate change table. The piece used clips from a film I produced last year titled ‘Climate of Hope‘ which reviews the nuclear fuel [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Forestry, Garnaut Review, Kyoto Protocol, Logging, Nukes (energy related), Renewable energy, Senate, Tax, Transport, Welfare, fuel crisis on July 4, 2008 | 21 Comments »
This was published in Crikey this afternoon. My release from today is here.
Professor Garnaut’s much-awaited Draft Report [huge file here if the Garnaut website is still down] is, in general, strong on the architecture but terribly weak on the big, over-riding issue – preventing runaway climate change. His policy prescriptions are completely out of step [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Renewable energy, tagged carbon, climate, Energy on July 2, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Andrew Macintosh from the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy and I released a paper on the implications of carbon-cycle feedbacks on climate policy today. The summary is below or the full paper can be downloaded here. It ain’t good news..
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Penny Wong released the official greenhouse inventory for 2006 this morning, and you can read and study it in all its glory here.
The three take home messages, for me, are firstly that emissions are inexorably rising, particularly in the energy sector, when they need to peak and come down as fast as possible. Astonishing to [...]
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Posted in Anti-environmentalism, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Greens, Kyoto Protocol, Senate, fuel crisis on June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
An edited version of this piece appeared in today’s Crikey email.
Not long ago I wrote in Crikey giving the Climate Institute a very hard time over their positioning on geosequestration. While I still think they are utterly wrong on that, I write today to support their excellent report which the Federal Opposition yesterday dishonestly and [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Transport, Wind Power, fuel crisis on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Senate Environment Committee is calling for submissions to an inquiry into my renewable energy feed-in Private Member’s Bill, which we negotiated and were successful in having referred earlier this week.
If we are to make this law a reality and give the Australian renewable energy sector the best possible support that it will need in [...]
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