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Kevin Rudd ... opinion polls show support wavering.

Rudd under pressure to water down emissions scheme

11 Nov 2008

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is under pressure to water down his government’s plans to tackle climate change as the global financial crisis threatens jobs and economic growth, experts say.

Don’t sit around and wait, Aussie farmers told

11 Nov 2008

Australian agriculture can’t afford to sit around and wait until 2013 for government to decide how it fits into the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a global expert in carbon trading says.

Shell chief urges Canadian governments to take control

11 Nov 2008

One of Canada’s top oil men says voluntary efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have failed and should be replaced by coherent and consistent government-mandated rules.

Africa needs a hand, experts say.

Meeting hears why Africa left behind in carbon offset trade

11 Nov 2008

Administrative and technical problems mean that Africa cannot profit from schemes to tackle climate change through projects to cut carbon emissions in developing countries, climate specialists meeting in Dakar said.

Obama 1: Dark days ahead for fossil fuels

7 Nov 2008

The election of Barack Obama as US President signals a tectonic shift in the nation’s attitudes to future energy sources and to the environment.

Rajendra Pachauri ... Copenhagen important.

Obama 2: Climate plan must have priority, says Pachauri

7 Nov 2008

President-elect Barack Obama should put global warming ahead of a domestic plan to cut carbon emissions, says Rajendra Pachauri, head of a Nobel Prize-winning United Nations panel of climate-change scientists.

Lawrence Cannon ... lot of similarities.

Obama 3: Canada quick to seek climate deal

7 Nov 2008

Canada has its eyes on a North American-wide climate change deal with president-elect Barack Obama, the country's Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said yesterday.

Obama 4: These guys owe us 18 square miles of new trees

7 Nov 2008

The US presidential campaigns spent millions to get their messages across. But a writer at The Scientist wondered about the environmental cost.

New EU states team up against parts of climate plan

7 Nov 2008

Seven eastern members of the European Union have upheld a joint stand against parts of the bloc's climate package which they fear could harm their economies.

Canadian firms taking climate change seriously, says report

7 Nov 2008

Canada's biggest companies are making climate change a higher priority, partly through more widespread disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

Climate change might hurt giant pandas, say scientists

7 Nov 2008

Researchers at Britain’s York University have determined that climate change may be about to affect the lives of rare species such as the giant panda, because of fears that global warming is likely to result in substantial re-distribution of plants and animals.

Agriculture and emissions trading don’t mix, says report

4 Nov 2008

Imposing emissions trading on to agriculture is like trying to fit a saddle on a cow, the Australian Government has been told in a report released yesterday.

Penny Wong ... we'll wait for Copenhagen.

Rudd government to go easy on emissions trading scheme

4 Nov 2008

The Australian Government has no ambitions to set an example by moving dramatically ahead of other countries with its emissions trading regime, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong says.

UN expert calls for world action to halt desertification

4 Nov 2008

The “silent” crisis of desertification or land degradation if tackled properly can help to address a range of world problems, says a senior United Nations environment expert.

Martijn Wilder ... Australia could be carbon finance hub.

No cap and no fixed price on carbon, investors say

4 Nov 2008

An international gathering of finance and carbon market experts has called on the Australian Government to avoid a price cap or fixed price for emissions permits.

Expert praises China's will to tackle climate change

4 Nov 2008

China's newly released white paper on climate change demonstrates that China has a strong "political will" to tackle global warming, says a German climate policy professor.

KPMG gets serious about climate change

4 Nov 2008

Professional services firm KPMG has launched a global initiative to combat climate change, which it describes as one of the biggest challenges facing the world today.

Wayne Swan ... sustained growth, more jobs.

Households up for $1 a day under ETS, says Australian Treasury

31 Oct 2008

Emissions trading will cost Australian households a dollar a day when it starts in 2010, according to economic modeling released yesterday by the federal Treasury.

Lars Josefsson ... business is a solution to climate crisis.

World business leaders back UN climate change deal

31 Oct 2008

The United Nations' drive to clinch a new global framework to curb climate change at its Copenhagen summit next year has been endorsed by global business leaders.

Goldman Sachs in pact with carbon-market firm Blue Source

31 Oct 2008

Goldman Sachs Group has signed a strategic alliance with Blue Source, a developer of projects to help companies to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.

Brits reluctant investors in climate change, says report

31 Oct 2008

British investors are still failing to grasp the significant opportunity offered by climate change, according to a report from wealth management specialist Holden & Partners.

Xie Zhenhua ... China not worse emitter  than the US

China issues post-Kyoto plans on climate change

31 Oct 2008

The clean development mechanism (CDM) should continue to be implemented even after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol expires, says a white paper on China's policies on climate change.

Bernd Scheifele ...  'We can supply Europe from outside bases.'

Cement giant attacks EU carbon trading plans

31 Oct 2008

European cement giant Heidelberg says the European Commission's planned extension of its emissions trading scheme in 2013 could threaten cement production in the EU.

Europe sees first carbon exchange traded commodity

31 Oct 2008

ETF Securities has announced the launch of Europe’s first carbon exchange traded commodity (ETC), to be listed on the London Stock Exchange.

CSIRO is using safflower as its first biofactory platform crop.

Australian scientists to help wean chemicals industry off crude oil

31 Oct 2008

CSIRO scientists have joined one of the world’s largest biotechnology consortia to help to develop crops which produce oils to be used by the chemicals industry as sustainable alternatives to those derived from the world’s non-renewable stocks of crude oil.

Prince Charles ... battle for survival.

Charles urges world to keep on green course

31 Oct 2008

Prince Charles has urged Japan and other major nations to take action in the global “battle for survival” against climate change and emphasised that the current financial crisis should not be made an excuse to abandon efforts on emission cuts and forest conservation.

Ed Miliband ... forced to accept changes.

Miliband bows to pressure on UK aviation and shipping emissions

28 Oct 2008

The UK government is to announce today that it will include rapidly growing aviation and shipping emissions in Britain's commitment to curb its carbon footprint by 80 per cent by 2050.

Angry airlines condemn EU emissions decision

28 Oct 2008

European Union governments have given formal approval to a potentially costly system of capping greenhouse gases from any airline flying into or out of the trade bloc.

Climate change: A safe haven for worried investors?

28 Oct 2008

Climate change might be the safe haven investors are looking for in a volatile world, suggests a just-released report by Deutsche Asset Management, the asset management arm of Deutsche Bank.

Jose Manuel Barroso ... confident for Copenhagen.

New climate deal possible in 2009, says EU chief

28 Oct 2008

A crucial global pact on climate change is possible by next year, European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said in Beijing following two days of talks between Asian and European leaders.

Cities' leaders pledge action on climate change

28 Oct 2008

Leaders of 40 of the world's major cities have pledged action to fight climate change, taking measures ranging from promoting solar energy to tracking genetically modified food.

Gordon Brown ... revolt in the ranks.

Brown faces defeat as Labour MPs revolt on climate change

24 Oct 2008

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces a defeat in the Commons next week over his climate change bill as a group of Labour MPs calls for emissions targets to include international flights and shipping.

Britain to auction first carbon allowances next month

24 Oct 2008

The British government has announced it will auction its first batch of carbon credits under the Emissions Trading Scheme next month.

Japan set to introduce voluntary carbon market

24 Oct 2008

Japan will introduce a voluntary carbon market based on companies' pledged emissions cuts and hopes that thousands of firms will sign up to what could become a forerunner of a mandatory cap-and-trade project.

Ken Henry ... hard to predict how ETS will affect economy.

Financial crisis blurs Australian Treasury's carbon view

24 Oct 2008

The Australian federal Treasury says its modelling that underpins the country’s imminent switch to carbon trading does not include analysis about the destructive impact of the global financial crisis.

Adam Kirkman ... look beyond the finance crisis.

Speed up ETS preparations, Australian businesses told

24 Oct 2008

Australian business leaders have been warned to speed up preparation for the incoming emissions trading scheme despite the credit crisis.

Ban Ki-moon ... wants a positive signal from Europe.

Settle it, and quickly, Ban tells Europe’s leaders

24 Oct 2008

United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed to leaders of the European Union the need to wrap up the bloc’s energy and climate package by the end of the year.

Nasdaq buy-out leads it into emissions trading market

24 Oct 2008

Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group has announced that it will use assets from a recent acquisition to move into energy and carbon derivatives.

Franklin Roosevelt

Climate change needs a Roosevelt ‘New Deal,’ says UN

24 Oct 2008

The world should take a leaf from former US president Franklin Roosevelt's songbook for tackling the Great Depression and fund a "Green New Deal" to fight climate change, a United Nations agency says.

Stavros Dimas ... developed countries must pay.

EC eyes market solution to deforestation

24 Oct 2008

The European Commission has called for a target to halt global deforestation by 2030, to be delivered partially through a Global Forest Carbon Mechanism (GFCM), under a post-2012 climate agreement.

Poisoned village water in Ghana.

Our poisoned world - the top 10 worst pollution problems

24 Oct 2008

The "I Trust My Legs" gold mine in Ghana is a local affair, where miners shift silt from rudimentary pits and then combine it with mercury.

Worst polluters pick up $3b under Australian ETS, says report

21 Oct 2008

Free carbon permits for big polluters will cost Australian taxpayers $3 billion in the first year of the Rudd Government's carbon trading scheme, a new report says.

Use ETS money to fund green projects, says Britain

21 Oct 2008

Money raised from Europe’s Emissions Trading Scheme should be used to fund plans for carbon capture and storage demonstration projects, the British government will stress at an EU energy summit today.

Ban Ki-moon ... deep concern.

EU’s climate actions could be economic boon, says Ban

21 Oct 2008

European Union proposals on tackling climate change could also be a boon for the economy, generating millions of new jobs at a time when the world is suffering from the financial crisis, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

Barack Obama ... will inherit huge problems as president.

Environment will wither whoever wins US election

21 Oct 2008

Eager anticipation of a new American president offering a dramatic departure on issues such as climate change is rapidly being tempered by the financial crisis that threatens to blight the next administration's agenda, says the Times Online.

Ed Miliband ... Government must play its part in the big shift.

New-man Miliband has blueprint for greener UK homes

21 Oct 2008

Britain’s new Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband, is drawing up plans for a "big shift" in the way Britons heat and power their homes, the Independent on Sunday has revealed.

We’re facing climate change havoc, warns new report

21 Oct 2008

Climate change is occurring much faster than predicted by the scientific fraternity, and will wreak havoc unless action is taken on a global scale, says a new report by the World Wildlife Fund.

ASX to introduce emission futures next year

21 Oct 2008

The ASX plans to introduce futures contracts for coal, natural gas and renewable energy certificates.

Kevin Rudd ... climate change won't go away.

Rudd firm: Financial crisis won't delay Australian carbon trade

17 Oct 2008

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has confirmed that plans to introduce a carbon emissions trading scheme by 2010 will not be delayed by the global financial crisis.

Nicolas Sarkozy ... financial crisis no excuse.

Troubled EU pledges to stick with climate change plans

17 Oct 2008

European Union leaders have reasserted their ambition to lead the world in fighting climate change despite the growing economic recession and mounting rifts among its 27 governments.

Australia
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Members of the Parents for Climate group, and lawyer David Hertzberg, outside the federal court in Sydney. The advocacy group accused Energy Australia of greenwashing. The parties have now agreed to a settlement.

Energy Australia apologises to 400,000 customers and settles greenwashing legal action

Thu 22 May 2025

Energy retailer says carbon offsetting ‘not the most effective way’ to reduce emissions.

United States
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Climate change could drive surge in foreclosures and lender losses, new study finds

Thu 22 May 2025

Extreme weather linked to climate change could spell financial ruin for many American homeowners and lead to billions in losses for lenders, a new study finds.

China
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As Brazilian president visits China, $1 billion sustainable fuel deal announced

16 May 2025

Brazil announced two Chinese partnerships on Monday, including a $1 billion investment by China's Envision Energy to produce sustainable aviation fuel, as the country's president visits China.

Europe
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Dutch environmental group launches new climate case against Shell to stop all investment in new oil and gas fields

Wed 21 May 2025

The NGO previously sued Shell to reduce its carbon emissions. The oil major has 700 extraction assets that have yet to be developed with potential CO2 emissions of 36 times those of the Netherlands’ annually.

United Kingdom
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Watchdog urges Scotland to take action after repeatedly missing climate targets

Today 11:30am

Climate Change Committee says original goal of a 75% emissions cut by 2030 will now be delayed by up to six years.

Canada
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Mark Carney

It’s time for Canada’s Mark Carney to think big on climate, experts say

30 Apr 2025

Even Carney’s climate background wasn’t enough to put climate action on center stage.

Asia
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India’s steel expansion threatens climate goals and global efforts to clean up industry: report

Wed 21 May 2025

India’s plans to double steel production by the end of the decade could jeopardise its national climate goals and a key global target to reduce planet-heating gas emissions from the steel industry.

Pacific
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Nauru sells citizenship to help fund relocations as sea levels rise

27 Feb 2025

A new 'golden passport' scheme aims to raise funds to relocate people inland as climate change raises sea levels.

Antarctic/Arctic
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I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard

13 May 2025

Antarctica is often viewed as the last truly remote place on Earth – frozen, wild and untouched. But is it really as untouched as it seems?

Africa
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Nigeria's Trans Niger oil pipeline bursts, spills crude, rights group says

Thu 22 May 2025

Nigeria's Trans Niger Pipeline, a major oil artery transporting crude from onshore oilfields to the Bonny export terminal, burst and spilled oil into the local B-Dere community in Ogoniland.

South America
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Tropical forest loss hit new heights in 2024; fire a major driver in Latin America

Today 11:30am

Tropical forest loss skyrocketed in 2024, with vast swaths of primary forest consumed by fire, according to new satellite data.

United Nations
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Nations agree on carbon-pricing system to steer shipping towards net-zero

14 Apr 2025

Nations have agreed to introduce a worldwide carbon-pricing system for international shipping to drive the sector towards net-zero emissions by 2050.

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