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The Coalition’s real climate change targets

Crikey readers talk sweatshop labour, The Salvation Army and the Coalition’s climate change policies.

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Heavy weather for Defence: climate change and the ADF

The Defence Force can’t ignore climate change, writes Australian Strategic Policy Institute deputy director Anthony Bergin. A new report outlines the environment-related challenges facing our forces.

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The Power Index: carbon cutters, Coalition influencers at #9

Who will influence Tony Abbott on climate policy if he claims the Lodge? The Coalition vows to ditch the carbon tax but its Direct Action alternative needs resourcing. The Power Index examines the field and finds ex-minister Robert Hill could be in the box seat.

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The Power Index: who’s doing the heavy lifting on carbon?

Who’s really cutting carbon in Australia? The Power Index uncovers the most influential: the business chiefs, lawyers, regulators and bureaucrats driving the green economy as concerns mount globally over climate change.

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Why 4 degrees will end the world as we know it: World Bank

The World Bank has produced an alarming report that puts in context the risks of inaction on emissions reduction and climate change. It doesn’t make for pleasant reading.

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Crikey Blogs | FEDERAL|

Cutting policies, and carbon emissions, in the newest blue states

Victorian Premier Ted Baillieu yesterday announced it was scrapping the former Brumby government’s climate change target of reducing carbon emissions by 20% by 2020. And he’s not the only premier dismantling climate change programs, writes Amber Jamieson.

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Future of climate policy, part 2: time to move beyond treaties

Despite the failures in Copenhagen and beyond, the government’s Clean Energy Future policy continues to be based largely on an outdated model, writes Fergus Green at Inside Story.

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Mirabella helps pass carbon tax

Crikey media wrap: Despite Tony Abbott declaring he will kill the carbon price if elected, PM Julia Gillard will today get Australia’s first significant policy to cut carbon emissions passed through parliament.

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Pearse: is this carbon price a big step sideways?

It’s unclear yet whether this deal will reduce Australia’s contribution to climate change, writes Guy Pearse, Research Fellow at the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland.

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Parkinson: Garnaut’s inconvenient truths

The first three instalments of Professor Ross Garnaut’s update to his Climate Change Review have been a welcome boost to the government’s ability to press its case for a carbon price, writes Giles Parkinson, of Climate Spectator.

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Come in Spinner: Gillard’s carbon price campaign outguns Rudd’s

If Kevin Rudd had approached his mining tax, and the emissions trading system, in the way Julia Gillard is approaching the carbon tax, he might still be Prime Minister.

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Crikey Blogs | ENVIRONMENT|

Welcome Minister, it’s time to roll up your sleeves

The final week of critical climate negotiations in Cancun is upon us. Australia’s Minister for climate change, Greg Combet, arrived on the weekend and got straight to work. Philip Ireland reports from Mexico.

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Crikey Blogs | ENVIRONMENT|

Time for Aussie pride in carbon reduction

As day three of the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico kicks off, Anna Rose takes a stroll through a community garden in Syria, looking at local initiatives for global problems. Yet Australia lags behind with the false “the world isn’t acting, Australia shouldn’t lead” climate change line.

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The Sydney Morning Herald | ENVIRONMENT|

Gillard: Why we need a carbon price

PM Julia Gillard pens a column on why the carbon price reform is such a grand idea. Putting a price on carbon will end this awkward uncertainty sending energy prices up and is clear decisive action on climate change, claims Gillard.

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The Sydney Morning Herald | ENVIRONMENT|

Gittens: Copenhagen wasn’t a failure

Like Australia, the US has just abandoned plans for an emissions trading scheme. But not all hope is lost for climate change policy, with the pledges made in Copenhagen far stronger than the media has represented, writes Ross Gittins.

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Crikey Blogs | ENVIRONMENT|

Time for a change in climate policy

The government and climate change advocates need to stop obsessing over carbon pricing and get behind an investment-centred climate policy, like a Snowy Mountains style scheme, says Leigh Ewbank.

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Crikey Blogs | ENVIRONMENT|

A hopeful tale for climate change policy

Take a look around the world and you’ll find that 32 countries now have emissions trading schemes — including the UK and the EU. Even China has committed to putting a price on carbon next year. Let’s talk about the good news, writes Ellen Sandell.

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Crikey Blogs | ENVIRONMENT|

Let the carbon games begin

Like Noah and his Ark, Julia Gillard has made an effort to have two of almost everything on the committee that will guide Australia’s near-term efforts on climate change, and prepare the economy for the carbon challenges of the future, writes Giles Parkinson.

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A (climate) change in the air

Crikey media wrap: It’s the first day back at school for all the enthusiastic parliamentary members, even though the class hasn’t voted on a deputy speaker yet. But Gillard turned up with a new climate change policy tucked into her lunch box.

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Crikey Blogs | ENVIRONMENT|

Clean energy moves ahead amid climate policy carnage

Passage of the enhanced 20% renewable energy target is one hard fought victory for climate change policy amongst the wreckage littering the corridors of parliament house in Canberra, says Rob Grant.

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Climate change policy set to steam up Canberra

One of the biggest questions for arising out of the ALP’s day of deliverance by the two country independents is this: what does it mean for climate change and clean energy policies?

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Crikey Blogs | ENVIRONMENT|

Why it’s great that the ETS got the chop

The most frustrating argument in support of the CPRS was this notion that, even though it was acknowledged as appalling policy, “something is better than nothing”. Sounds nice, but it’s a logical fallacy, writes Tim Hollo.

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Inside Story | FEDERAL|

Rudd’s greatest challenge: surviving his ETS somersault

Rather than selling the ETS to the Australian public, Rudd was busy playing wedge politics with Malcolm Turnbull. Now his decision to dump it will cost him dearly in both electoral and larger political terms, writes Rodney Tiffen.

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Slate | ENVIRONMENT|

Science won’t change the sceptics

Climate change policy by governments has very little to do with the actual science behind climate change and a lot of do with political manoeuvring and what pollies want to achieve. Science isn’t the same as politics, writes Daniel Sarewitz.

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Malcolm Turnbull's blog | FEDERAL|

Turnbull: Abbott’s climate plan is bullsh*t and he knows it

In a spot of eloquent white-anting from the back bench, Malcolm Turnbull takes to his blog to slag off Tony Abbott and his climate change policy plans. The Opposition leader has lost his integrity and the Liberals can’t be trusted, says Turnbull.

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