Australian Targets

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Friday, July 31, 2015

Portland bridge danglers delay Shell ice-breaker leaving for Arctic oil drilling #ShellNo

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Note: this article is updating with developments Portland, Oregon: Climate protestors with Greenpeace and Rising Tide have set up a block...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Labor's 50 percent renewables policy a bare minimum for staying under 2 degrees climate target

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The Original of this article was published at nofibs.com.au Labor Opposition leader Bill Shorten's advocacy of a 50 per cent renewa...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Battle of coal vs renewables in Northern Queensland

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In the 2015 Australian budget $5 billion was put aside for a northern development fund. Prime Minister Tony Abbott called on Business leade...

Renewables firmly favoured by Australian Public says poll

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It should come as no surprise that the Australian public enormously favours development of renewables. This is seen not only in public opi...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Evidence mounts for litigation of major Carbon polluters with climate change

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The world is moving rapidly on withdrawing the social licence of carbon polluters. As the impacts of climate change become clearer and the...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Harnessing ocean temperature differentials using Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) technology

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One of the more interesting items in the Marshall Islands INDC announcement of climate targets in the leadup to the Paris 2015 COP21 clima...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Marshall Islands sets ambitious climate targets, urges Australia to lead

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The small island nation of the Republic of the Marshall Islands submitted it's climate target on 21st July 2015. It is the first small...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Bumblebee populations in steep decline due to climate change in North America and Europe

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Bumblebee populations in North America and in Europe are in steep decline and shrinking their ranges due to human caused climate change say...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Global carbon pricing with cross-border tariffs needed to fight climate change says Stiglitz

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Nobel award winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has raised the prospect of a global carbon tax lead by a 'coalition of the willing', ...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

New Zealand rebuked for unambituous and conditional climate change targets

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Green fields north of Rotorua and the cooling tower of Ohaaki Geothermal power station in the middle distance. Photo: John Englart New Ze...