Australian Targets

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Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Guest Post: Human hands are all over Australia's hottest ever year in 2013

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New research by multiple separate research groups shows that extreme heat events are increasing and can be clearly attributable to global ...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Australia's Foreign minister Julie Bishop shunned at UN climate summit

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The original article was published at nofibs.com.au. Australia's Foreign Affairs minister Julie Bishop took the podium at the United...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

South Australia sets 50 per cent renewables target for 2025

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Congratulations to South Australian Premier Jay Wetherall who announced this past week that the state was about to reach it's 2020 targ...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Oxfam: Green Climate Fund pledges still far below target for funding adaptation by developing countries

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The UN Climate Change Summit in New York brought many new pledges and commitments on emissions reduction targets, reduced deforestation, an...

Graça Machel: Are pledges enough to avoid the climate change precipice?

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The widow of Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, addressed the UN Climate summit in the closing ceremony directly after UN General Secretary Ban ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

UN Climate summit advances pledges while Australia, Canada noticeably reticent

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The UN climate summit has resulted in an extensive range of promises and commitments on climate action. But noticeably absent is any mentio...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Australian Government in denial on proposals for climate action at UN Climate summit

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The reason the Peoples Climate protest occurred is that there is a UN summit on climate change on 23 September called by UN Secretary Gen...

30,000 rally in Melbourne and more in regional Victoria for action on climate change

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A beautiful spring day brought out the crowds to attend the Peoples Climate Melbourne rally. But the hum had been in the air that this was...
Friday, September 19, 2014

PwC report: World still on track for dangerous warming this century

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The latest Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI) shows that the world is still on track for 3.7 to 4.8°C of warming ...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

HESTA Super Fund restricts thermal coal investments

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The first major Australian industry superannuation fund advised on Friday they were restricting thermal coal investment due to the growing ...