Greenies the world over have been, by turns, snorting and smiling into their morning fair-trade rooibos over a climate bill passed by the US House of Representatives on Friday.
Emissions trading
GetUp: laying our climate strategy on the table
GetUp is trying to ensure Australia is not a blocker in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, writes GetUp’s Meredith Turnbull and Simon Sheikh.
Greenhouse niggard to review treasury ETS modelling
Climate action opponent Brian Fisher should have automatically been excluded from any “independent” review of the modelling, writes Bernard Keane.
NZ election “politics on speed”
Minor parties have been wooed, cabinet places are being brokered, and the opposition have been through a speedy, bloodless leadership change, writes Tim Watkin.
Wanted — one agenda for Federal Government.
Judging by Wayne Swan’s performance yesterday, he was so flabbergasted by what the international financial crisis has done to his budget that he’d become thoroughly disorientated, 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.
ETS modelling: there’s no free lunch
The correct answer to the question “what happens if there’s no international agreement?” is, of course, that we’re stuffed, writes Bernard Keane.
ETS modelling heralds a green collar job boom
Even the “business as usual” scenario demonstrates the key point that there are substantial growth prospects in green industries, writes Bernard Keane.
Dismal logic: Garnaut at a glance
Ross Garnaut’s final report warns that Australia faces an even grimmer climate change future than previously estimated, writes Bernard Keane.
Big business: emissions trading = catastrophe
There’s remarkable unanimity among Australia’s largest businesses about the impact of the Federal Government’s emissions trading scheme, writes Bernard Keane.
Flannery: Garnaut has made a good first step
Speaking exclusively to Crikey, Tim Flannery has solid praise for the emissions targets set today by Ross Garnaut, but says the game could change drastically in as little as five years from now.
Milne: Still time for PM Rudd to lead
It’s not too late for Rudd and Wong still have a chance to lead from the front, writes Greens senator Christine Milne.
Wong’s Green paper: what it means
This is as much a handout bonanza for our biggest polluters as it is an emissions trading scheme, says Bernard Keane.
Kohler: Garnaut — the beadle and the dietary
Ross Garnaut’s draft review on climate change achieved more than just caring the crap out of everyone, writes Business Spectator’s Alan Kohler.
Garnaut loses the plot
Ross Garnaut, who will report in June to the Rudd Government on its emissions trading system, is a former trade economist now spending a lot of time thinking about how to prevent powerful industries undermining the Government’s plans, writes Clive Hamilton.
Pearse: Ratifying Kyoto will be the easy bit
Kevin Rudd will get a hero’s welcome at the upcoming climate change negotiations in Bali and Australian ratification of the Kyoto Protocol will be warmly received by national leaders everywhere but Washington and Ottawa, writes Guy Pearse.
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