Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Transport on July 17, 2008 | 108 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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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 climate, Energy, carbon 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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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 Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Energy, Environment, Garnaut Review, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Wind Power on June 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Very pleased to announce that the Private Member’s Bill for a comprehensive national feed-in law for renewable energy that Christine introduced last month has been successfully referred to the Senate Environment Committee for a formal Inquiry.
What this means is that, after the debacle of the Budget, there is now the opportunity for a detailed public [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Forestry, Garnaut Review, Greens, Peak oil, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Transport on June 3, 2008 | 9 Comments »
As the team at Hansard are struggling valiantly to catch up on the huge quantity of transcribing work coming out of Senate Estimates, it’s going to be a little while before we’re up to date here on what’s been happening, but I thought I’d post a few key climate and oil-related transcripts now.
The one that [...]
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I’ve been meaning to post since last night on the crazy Garnaut submission the Productivity Commission released yesterday, but simply haven’t had the time.
In the interests of having something on the blog about this important piece of work to undermine climate action, I thought I’d just post Christine’s comments from yesterday.
“The Productivity Commission’s statement on [...]
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