The UN's annual climate talkfest has wrapped up, with some limited progress made towards a global deal on emissions in 2015. Tony Abbott faces a challenge in playing any kind of role in such a deal, with some countries 'venemous' towards Australia at the talks.
The UN's annual climate summit will soon wrap up, and the Australian delegation is under fire for not taking negotiations seriously, blocking progress, wearing T-shirts to officials talks, and giggling. Crikey reports from Poland.
The UN's annual climate summit is halfway through, and Australia is acting as a wrecking ball, working against any consensus. There goes our long-held reputation as a constructive force in finding a solution to climate change ...
The UN's annual climate change summit kicks off in Poland today. The stakes are high and the obstacles are serious -- and Australia has sent no minister or parliamentary secretary. But there is some hope for the summit.
John Howard’s speech overnight justifying his commitment to emissions trading as a mostly political move should not serve as a moment to disparage the former PM, but to think like him.
Hugh Morgan is at it again, espousing his climate sceptic views to The Australian. But his attacks on the Club of Rome are quite unfounded.
Adding an open-ended market element to Greg Hunt's carbon abatement auction could tempt otherwise-frightened firms into the emissions reduction game.
The Climate Institute’s Erwin Jackson talks to Ailun Yang, a senior associate on the major emerging economies team of the World Resources Institute, about China's green future.
Germaine Greer spoke in Melbourne last night without mentioning female emancipation or even women. She's now a crusading conservationist, a second-wave version of herself. Crikey was there.
In the absence of action on climate change from our political class, young people are entitled to wonder whether 'direct action' of their own can end the rip-off being perpetrated on them and on future generations.
