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 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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The Australian media has largely spruiked the Bali COP (Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change) as a success but this doesn’t at all match the feeling of defeat and despondency that I and many others felt in Bali last Sunday – the day after the meeting finally closed.
While it [...]
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So they reached an agreement. Until a couple of hours ago, what that agreement actually said depended on whether you read the Murdoch or Fairfax press, since the UNFCCC hadn’t bothered to put the text of the agreements on their website. It’s now available here.
In summary, it could have been worse - they could have [...]
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A fascinating shift in Bali overnight, with the new Opposition Environment Spokes, Greg Hunt, giving the Government the ‘green light’, as he puts it, to sign up to the Bali agreement with the 2020 targets in!
This is a pretty swift turnaround from Nelson’s Howard-style scaremongering only a week ago. But Hunt has long been serious [...]
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This piece from me was published in today’s Crikey email.
ESTRAGON: Let’s go.
VLADIMIR: We can’t.
ESTRAGON: Why not?
VLADIMIR: We’re waiting for Garnaut.
ESTRAGON: (despairingly). Ah!
You couldn’t mistake the genuine warmth and goodwill in Bali at hearing the news that Australia’s new Prime Minister had immediately ratified the Kyoto Protocol and [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Forestry, Garnaut Review, Greens, Kyoto Protocol, Logging, Renewable energy on December 11, 2007 | 48 Comments »
Belated greetings and postings from Bali, where there was genuine excitement and warm good will last week when the new Government announced its decision to ratify the Kyoto Protocol immediately and rejoin the global effort to tackle climate change.
Sad to say, that good will is already being squandered and has already begun to turn to [...]
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Somehow this seems even more unreal and extraordinary than last Saturday night. Australia is once again part of the Kyoto process!
Prime Minister Rudd has officially ratified the Kyoto Protocol in his first executive act as PM.
Here’s what Christine has to say about it:
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The annual and growing Walk Against Warming is happening again this weekend in cities across Australia.
Originally timed to coincide with the Kyoto / UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings each December, this year’s event has been brought forward to coincide with the Federal Election campaign.
Check out the events in your area and make sure [...]
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So, finally, both the Government and Opposition have come to the party on what the rest of the world agreed to at Rio 15 years ago – that developed and developing countries should have differentiated responsibilities in any international climate agreement.
It simply stands to reason that those of us lucky enough to have become rich [...]
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