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Showing posts with label CPRS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CPRS. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Penny Wong speech at Climate Adaptation Futures Conference

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While many may say the Labor Government hasn't acted strongly enough on climate change with strong criticism and calls for abandonment...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Rudd retreat on climate policy: scientists and conservationists react

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Conservationists and scientists have reacted angrily to the breathtaking act by the Rudd Government in taking the emissions trading scheme ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Brian Walters on Emission permit property rights and the CPRS

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The carbon emission targets and the compromises to the fossil fuel industry have been well criticised in the Rudd Government's Carbon P...
Thursday, February 4, 2010

Two year Interim Carbon Tax as a compromise to break Senate Deadlock?

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Two weeks ago the Greens took up one of Professor Ross Garnaut's suggestions of an interim carbon tax until the nation finalises its car...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Greenwash: Investors push Governments for Cap and Trade Action

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Australian, European and U.S. investor groups representing $13 trillion in assets said in a statement issued at a meeting at the UN in New Y...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Union calls for 40% emissions reduction target and abandonment of CPRS

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The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) which covers many of the researchers and academics who work in science, economic modelling and...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Polluters subsidised under emissions trading with households footing the bill

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An Emergency Climate rally in Melbourne attacked the Federal Labor Government on its CPRS negotiations saying it had made too many concessio...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Climate civil disobedience action in Canberra for 40% carbon reduction target

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Two hundred people blockaded Parliament House in Canberra today calling on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to secure a strong, legally binding tre...

Australia: Climate Civil Disobedience on the rise

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Two hundred people blockaded the entrance to the Australian Parliament today calling on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to secure a strong, legall...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Action on climate change demanded by thousands on Melbourne's St Kilda Beach

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Thousands of Melbourne people rocked up to St Kilda Beach to be part of a Climate Change Human Sign near the St Kilda Sea Baths. The event ...
Saturday, May 16, 2009

Climate protest highlights environment funding in the Australian Budget

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Eight people were arrested in a dramatic climate protest at Canberra during the 2009 Government budget session over the Government's in...