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Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Saturday, June 14, 2025

UN Oceans Conference: Australia commits to 30% highly protected marine areas by 2030, signs on to High Seas Biodiversity Treaty, Blue NDC Challenge

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Photo: Murray Watt at UNOC3 The third UN Oceans Conference ( website ) took place in Nice, France from 9 to 13 June 2025. Australia's ne...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Guest Post: Trusted partner to the Pacific, or giant fossil fuel exporter? This week, Australia chose the latter

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The International Court of Justice International Court of Justice , CC BY-NC-ND ...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Climate Progress in Australia's 2024 Annual Climate Statement delivered by Chris Bowen

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Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen delivered his third annual Climate Statement to Parliament today. The Government set an interim emis...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Australia at COP29 Climate Diary

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The UN climate conference, the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP28) is ocurring in Baku in the Azerbaijan from Monday November 11 to Frida...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

CCPI: Australia goes backwards two places in Climate Change Performance in 2025 report

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This year Australia moved backwards two places in the annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). The national experts cited the still s...

Tracking Australian Ministers and Australian pledges at COP29

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Chris Bowen at COP29 Photo: Scott Hamilton This is a subpage of Australia at COP29 Climate Diary and will be updated throughout the confere...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Chris Bowen delivers Australia's national climate statement at COP29 in Baku

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Australia's Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen delivered Australia's national climate statement to COP29 in the High Level Segm...
Friday, November 8, 2024

Second Trump Presidency of climate denial will challenge global climate action response

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Donald Trump has won the US presidency for a second non-consecutive term. Plus Republicans have also won control of the Senate. Counting is ...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

Australia at Biological Diversity COP16 in Columbia

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UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COP16 meets from October 20 - 27 in Cali, Columbia. This is a Live article actively updated du...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

State of Australian Climate 2024 paints a worsening picture: 13 graphs and maps

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  Australia's climate is worsening, driven by accelerating climate change, according to the latest assessment by the Australian Bureau o...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

CHOGM meeting in Samoa: new report highlights Australia, Canada, UK role in fossil fuel emissions

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This page discusses CHOGM 2024 and climate change and the outcomes. A New report launched at Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

King Selling Australian Gas expansion in Japan while Prime Minister pacifies Island Nations facing Sea Level Rise existential threat

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Minister King in Japan spruiking gas. Source: X Currently the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is ocurring in Apia Samoa with Austr...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Inaugural Global Nature Positive Summit more financial greenwash than tackling decline in nature and biodiversity

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Australia committed two years ago in 2022 at the landmark Convention on Biodiversity COP15 meeting in Montreal to hold an inaugural Global N...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Statements by Foreign Minister Senator Wong on Climate at UN General Assembly September 2024

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Australian Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly.  She represented Australia on the Pal...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Australia experiences record breaking winter heatwave; Rapid snow season decline; Global Snapshot of news reveals climate crisis extent

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Australia experiencing a late winter season  heatwave breaking temperature recotds. Australia is in the grip of a late winter season heatwav...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

Extreme Heat: World sets new daily temperature records as UN Secretary-General issues Call to Action on Extreme Heat

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The European Copernicus Agency early this week identified that Sunday, Monday and Tuesday set new global daily average temperature records....
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Guest Post: Australia’s ‘carbon budget’ may blow out by 40% under the Coalition’s nuclear energy plan – and that’s the best case

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  Sven Teske , University of Technology Sydney The Coalition’s pledge to build seven nuclear reactors, if elected, would represent...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Guest Post: Prof Bill Hare on Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas

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Bill Hare , Murdoch University In announcing Australia’s support for fossil gas all the way to 2050 and beyond, Prime Minister Anthony A...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Dr Andrew Forrest says Climate Trigger and Carbon Solutions Levy needed as well as ending fossil fuel subsidies

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At the National Press Club of Australia Iron Ore magnate  Dr Andrew Forrest AO proposed three simple policies for Australia to become become...
Monday, January 29, 2024

IPCC plans 7th assessment cycle reports including Climate Change and Cities, Short-lived Climate Forcers, Carbon Dioxide Removal

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The 60th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met in Istanbul, Turkiye from 16–19 January 2024  (IPCC-60). This...