Australian greenhouse office


Don’t blame DFAT — they don’t have a brief

If you think Wong and Rudd have been having a difficult time with the UNFCCC negotiations in Bali, pity DFAT titan Jan Adams, Australia’s Ambassador for the Environment, writes a UNFCCC insider.

Carbon trading in Australia: open for business

Popular support for climate change action is now so strong that governments, especially sceptical ones like our own, are being left behind, a point illustrated yesterday when Australia’s first carbon trading exchange opened.