Australia used its muscle at the Pacific Islands Forum to ensure the meeting’s climate change targets matched Kevin Rudd’s.
Emission reduction targets
Rudd’s dilemma at the Pacific Island Forum
Pacific leaders are meeting in Cairns today for the Pacific Island Forum, and climate change should be a top priority. But expect some heavy diplomatic manoeuvrings from Kevin Rudd behind the scenes to keep climate off the agenda and real emission cuts off the table.
Don’t discount the consumer in reducing emissions
Voluntary consumer action is one of a number of actions outside the CPRS that could reduce Australia greenhouse gas emissions, writes Gordon Renouf.
Global warming is a global emergency
In the face of catastrophic risk, emission reduction targets should be based on the latest, considered, science, not on a political view of the art-of-the-possible, writes Ian Dunlop.
The real meaning of 450-550 ppm CO2 targets
There is little evidence the IPCC reports have taken the full implications of 450 — 550 ppm targets for the terrestrial environment and survival of civilization into account, writes Andrew Glikson.
The bushfires, the pain, the climate change
We were warned. Over and over again scientists told us of the increased danger of bushfires fueled by severe, protracted drought and record-breaking heat waves, writes Liz Conor.
Clive Hamilton v. Paul Kelly: climate death match
Paul Kelly has seamlessly shifted from chief apologist for the Howard Government to the Rudd Government’s climate change approach, writes Clive Hamilton.
Middle ground government: Poznan and the ETS White Paper
The question shouldn’t be whether Australia leads the rest of the world, but how hard we beg for action, writes Bernard Keane.
Mungo: On climate change and the Liberal party frog
The frog is well and truly in the pot and the water is getting steadily hotter. If we want to stop it from coming to the boil we have to act now. It’s Time, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Walking the Bali high wire
As the Bali negotiations enter their second week the relaxed atmosphere is changing as disagreements sharpen between the parties and major blocs, writes Clive Hamilton.
