CLIMATE SPECTATOR: Labor pins hopes on a changing climate

After being subject to months and months of climate politics of an ever-deteriorating quality, Australians have finally been presented with some climate policy. Was it worth the wait? There are probably three criteria on which this - the fourth attempt ...
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CLIMATE SPECTATOR: Labor pins hopes on a changing climate

After being subject to months and months of climate politics of an ever-deteriorating quality, Australians have finally been presented with some climate policy. Was it worth the wait? There are probably three criteria on which this - the fourth attempt ...
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Can Abbott bear the enemies within?

When former Liberal Leader Malcolm Turnbull, now Shadow Minister for Communications, critiqued Mr Abbott's “Direct Action'' climate policy strategy on Lateline on Wednesday, he highlighted simmering difficulties and opened a door to further leadership ...
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PM calls meeting to discuss carbon tax: report

... dinner with Prime Minister Julia Gillard tomorrow night to discuss the carbon tax as the government prepares for a public relations campaign to counter growing unease over the federal climate change policy, according to a report by The Australian. ...
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Business backs carbon cut target: report

Ms Gillard had requested the BCA to clarify its position on climate change, prompting the letter from BCA president Graham Bradley, which assured the prime minister that the business community would work constructively on the climate policy, ...
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China will hold us to account on carbon

And in its final conclusions the report finds: "Overall our analysis suggests that lagging behind the US in implementing climate policy offers the most risks for Canada … the analysis suggests seeking to harmonise perfectly with the US will reduce ...
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Greens want carbon policy flexibility

Greens deputy leader Christine Milne said the government's multi-party committee, which is working on the new climate policy, had yet to discuss the key issue of a carbon price, due to be in place three to five years ahead of a full emissions trading ...
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A polluted process

On December 1 2009, the Liberal switched leaders – by one vote – from Malcolm Turnbull, a climate change activist who had negotiated a bipartisan policy with the ALP, to Tony Abbott, a populist climate sceptic. A week later the United States and China ...
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CLIMATE SPECTATOR: Something fishy about climate policyGoogle Alerts – climate policy

The Garnaut Climate Change Review delivered in 2008 was a massive document – 630 pages – and possibly too much to digest, comment on and report on in one go ...
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CLIMATE SPECTATOR: A flood of poor policy decisionsGoogle Alerts – climate policy

The start of the 21st century has been dramatic for Australia's climate. The drought that gripped most of southern Australia from 2001 to 2008 was, ...
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