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UN urges greatly increased climate action

Sep 23, 2019

The IPCC report says climate change impacts are occurring now, and the risks of greater impacts need to be managed. The fossil fuel industry relies on politicians and business to ignore those risks.

Risk? What risk? The fossil fuel industry walks both sides of the street

Giles Parkinson

Apr 02, 2014

Adding an open-ended market element to Greg Hunt's carbon abatement auction could tempt otherwise-frightened firms into the emissions reduction game.

Here’s a Liberals-friendly idea to get abatement revving

Nov 04, 2013

Does Australia need a carbon budget? The UK has one, and British climate adviser David Kennedy tells <em>Crikey</em> it would aid efforts to reduce emissions across industry.

Why we’ve all been talking about the wrong budget

Cathy Alexander

Mar 15, 2013

Our hung parliament presented, for the first time in living memory, an opportunity to deal with the substantive policy issues ignored in the campaign, writes <b>Giles Parkinson</b> of Climate Spectator.

Parkinson: low-carbon economy not as hard as it looks

Jul 01, 2011

Just as the federal government prepares to announce details of its carbon pricing regime in the next week or two, the European emissions trading scheme is lurching through another crisis, writes <b>Giles Parkinson</b>.

Parkinson: EU carbon … a zero-sum game?

Jun 27, 2011

Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull unveils his complex emissions reduction scheme today. But negotiations between the government and Opposition will still be required, writes <b>Lenore Taylor</b>.

Final frontier for Turnbull’s emissions reduction

Aug 10, 2009

Do Obama and Rudd's climate change targets relate to the same planet? asks <b>Andrew Glikson</b>.

USA vs Oz: Same warming planet, different targets

Jan 21, 2009

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