Environment


From climate chaos to clarity with a double dividend

It’s urgent that we take the climate change debate from chaos to clarity so Australia can help achieve an effective global climate deal, writes John Connor.

Another roo cull. There must be a better way

Kangaroos are under the gun again in the ACT, writes Lionel Elmore.

Noosa’s two-headed fish: farm spraying goes nuts

As the Australian Tourist industry struggles the popular Noosa River in Queensland is being threatened by bureaucratic inaction to stop the use of agricultural chemicals killing and deforming its fish, reports Lionel Elmore.

Adding salt to the wound as the Lower Murray chokes

We have been sailing far to close to the wind for far too long with the lack of water in SA’s Coorong and Lower Lakes, writes Peter Gell.

Commentary wrap: The pundits react to Rudd’s ETS

Australian and international commentators weigh-in on Rudd’s emission target announcement.

Why the credit crisis could be the dawn of the Green New Deal

The financial crisis has been a disastrous for some businesses, but it also represents an environmental opportunity that shouldn’t be missed, writes Adam Grubb, founder of Energybulletin.net.

Government in a FiT of confusion over carbon abatement

The ETS will start in 2010, but what about feed in tarrifs? asks Bernard Keane.

Fuel reduction burns not included in Australia’s C02 accounting

With huge fuel reduction burns planned for this fire season, Crikey naturalist Lionel Elmore asks why the carbon they create is being ignored by foresters and others.

Australia still not ready for floods of climate change refugees

The Rudd government is yet to prepare a coherent plan on the problem of environmental refugees, writes Crikey intern Chris Mundy.

Garnaut out thinks the government on trade exposure

The government wants to give free permits to industries affected by a national carbon trading scheme. But Professor of Economics Joshus Gans argues Ross Garnaut’s solution is superior.

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.

Plenty of water for Murray Darling, just no political will

Getting some water to the Coorong and Lower Lakes is, it seems, all too hard for Penny Wong, writes Bernard Keane.

Is radioactive mud a problem for Victoria’s channel deepeners?

Reports on the clean up of a former CSIRO site in Port Melbourne which processed uranium from the early 1940s raises quesitons about Victoria’s Channel Deepening Project, writes Lionel Elmore:

Murray-Darling: Cubby Station has to go first

The first property the government should look at buying is Cubbie Station, writes Bernard Keane.

Video: Open season on black swans in Victoria:

Video footage following up on the plight of black swans and how the DSE is responding.

State of the Planet: Going green Beijing?

How friendly are the Olympics, really?

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40 black swans shot. ABC wants more

When Bairnsdale locals found out that 40 black swans had been shot in a DSE authorised cull, the contacted ABC’s Stateline with the story. That’s when it got interesting, writes Lionel Elmore.

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.

The final last chance to save the Murray is now

Pollies have one final chance to save the lower reaches of the Murray river. Will they take it? Thoms Hunter investigates.

Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks

Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people’s political coverage. Richard Farmer writes.

Drive your car, buy a new TV, save the planet

Will a momentary break in the consumption of oil and the production of plasma screen TVs aid the fight against climate change, or hinder it? Professor Quentin Grafton tells.

How to make Australia’s PNG Forest Partnership work

The Rudd Government is continuing down Howard’s tropical forest protection road with the PNG-Australia Forest Carbon Partnership. But there could be stumbling blocks, writes Paul Winn, Greenpeace Forest and Climate campaigner