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Europe’s low carbon price hit Australia’s budget last week in a big way. Erwin Jackson from the Climate Institute explains why, and looks at what might happen next.

I know many of you would like to think that elections are won and lost on serious matters but this battle of the images counts and so far the Liberals are winning it.

Crikey’s PromiseWatch project shifts its gaze to climate change.

CO2 reaches a milestone we don’t want, and other tidbits from today.

Recent data shows that without Australia’s population boom, we’d probably have greenhouse gas emissions under control. So why is no one talking about whether an Australia of 62 million is environmentally sustainable?

The Central Bank of Ireland set out to commemorate one of the island’s most famous sons with a 10 euro coin. Above the face of James Joyce is apparently a quote from Ulysses:

Jeff Orlowski’s Oscar-nominated climate change documentary Chasing Ice reveals the delicate craft of measuring global warming on glacial ice. It’s no easy task — and neither is making a film about it. Orlowski speaks with Luke Buckmaster.

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.

Three senior bureaucrats have taken the country on a bold economic experiment to address climate change. Martin Parkinson, Blair Comley and Ross Garnaut have fingerprints all over the carbon price — but is that such a good thing?

Martijn Wilder is the world’s top climate lawyer by some accounts. So does he think the law is letting down the environment when it comes to global warming? And if it is, who’s to blame? Read about the lawyer whose management skills and networking have taken him to the top of Australia’s low-carbon economy.

Maybe money does grow on trees. Businessman Andrew Grant is making plenty from forests to reduce CO2, but he’s not a typical greenie. He thinks Australia has stuffed up decarbonisation — and business has to fix it.

“There are a lot of solutions on the cusp,” says up-and-coming engineer Dr Jane Sargison on the task of reducing carbon emissions. Now she’s stepped out of her Hobart laboratory to lobby for the cash and commitment in Australian boardrooms to make them happen. Sargison comes in at #10 on The Power Index list.

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.

Australians are less pessimistic about the economy than last year, today’s Essential Report finds, but partisanship affects the way we feel — including about Australia Day.

Tony Abbott’s latest Coalition policy statement remains short on climate policy detail. More worrying is his selection of a noted anti-wind farm advocate and climate change sceptic as lead business adviser.

Tony Abbott’s efforts to portray himself as an everyday bloke sit uneasily with his previous attempts to be a conservative intellectual.