Australian Targets

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Sunday, September 25, 2016

Netherlands parliament increases climate targets: 25 percent by 2020, 55 percent by 2030

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The Netherlands parliament, in a non-binding vote, decided to increase their countries emission reduction targets to 25 percent by 2020 an...
Monday, September 19, 2016

What impact #sealevelrise on Melbourne's privatised port facilities?

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The Andrews Victorian state government has been successful with the sale of the Port of Melbourne for $9.7 billion, an election promise. T...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Solar thermal for South Australia? Solar Reserve says 6 power stations may be built

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Originally published at nofibs.com.au Solar Reserve has a plan to build a solar thermal power station with 8 hours molten salt storage a...
Monday, September 12, 2016

ARENA briefly made Australia a world leader in renewables R&D. Time to #SaveARENA

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Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is facing a huge funding cut of $1.2 billion as part of the budget omnibus the Federal Governme...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Turnbull increases climate aid for Pacific at Regional leaders meeting

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Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull attended the Pacific Leaders' meeting forum, and announced a small increase in climate...

Pacific Island nations lead in ratification of Paris Agreement on climate change

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The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting has concluded in Pohnpei in the Marshall Islands. A major focus of this meeting was action on cli...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Guest post: Pacific pariah: how Australia’s love of coal has left it out in the diplomatic cold

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Tony De Brum with Coalition of High Ambition at Paris COP21. The Marshall Islands helped to galvanise what became an inexorable push towa...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

Deciphering the US-China bilateral climate change outcomes

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This article first appeared at indybay.org. The nine point statement on the U.S.-China Climate Change Outcomes in Hangzhou China negotiat...

China and the United States Ratify Paris Agreement on climate while Australia fumbles on policy

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On Saturday China agreed to ratify the Paris Agreement according to the Guardian , with members of China's National People's Con...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Shining a light in Melbourne on Reef not Coal

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Originally posted at Climate Action Moreland Last night I ventured to Federation Square. I had heard that Nemo and Dory were in town. ...