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Australian opposition stalls vote on emissions laws
23 Jun 2009
A vote on the Australian government's emissions trading scheme appears certain to be delayed until August, but the Senate was locked in procedural wrangling for much of yesterday about how to achieve the delay.
Brazil seeks millions in cattle compensation
23 Jun 2009
Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
Report: How climate change will affect business
23 Jun 2009
United States businesses have been warned that climate change could mean shipping delays, more insured losses, constrained energy supplies and a decline in some tourism-based activities.
Landmark science warns UK faces climate dangers
23 Jun 2009
Cutting-edge scientific projections just launched by UK Environment Secretary Hilary Benn provide the most detailed picture to date of the threat facing Britain from soaring summer temperatures, more extreme weather and rising sea levels.
US pours $600b into Asian green energy deals
23 Jun 2009
The United States has pledged nearly $600 million in funding assistance to support clean-energy projects in Asia and in other parts of the world.
Filibustering may delay carbon trading vote
19 Jun 2009
The Opposition is likely to seek to prolong debate on the Australian Government's carbon emissions trading scheme in a bid to delay a vote in the Senate.
Australia unveils new renewable energy targets
19 Jun 2009
The Australian Government has introduced laws aimed at driving renewable energy investment and curbing greenhouse emissions.
Big emitters deny overstating carbon scheme cost
19 Jun 2009
Big emitters Woodside Petroleum and Rio Tinto have denied claims by an environmental group they overstated costs of proposed Australian climate change legislation to the public and the government.
US House may vote on climate bill next week
19 Jun 2009
Legislation to drastically reduce carbon dioxide pollution blamed for global warming could be voted on by the US House of Representatives as early as next week.
Asia set to become biggest climate change driver
19 Jun 2009
Asia's share of global greenhouse gas emissions could rise to more than 40 per cent by 2030, making it the world's main driver of climate change, experts have warned.
UN launches high-level climate and energy group
19 Jun 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched a new group consisting of business leaders and experts who will advise him on energy and climate change challenges, particularly in identifying key issues in the run-up to the major United Nations conference in Copenhagen in December.
Brazil bank to offer cheap loans to green companies
19 Jun 2009
Brazil’s national development bank is developing guidelines to provide cheaper loans to companies that have environmentally sustainable practices.
Women leading the charge to cleaner energy
19 Jun 2009
American women are paying the electric bills at home and making the critical decisions on energy use in their homes and businesses, according to a new survey.
What's the carbon footprint of your cell phone?
19 Jun 2009
Californian start-up Planet Metrics says it is developing software that could give consumers a better read on the embedded energy of everyday products.
Lawyers question claims by big Aussie miners
16 Jun 2009
An Australian legal group has called for a probe into claims by big miners - some with New Zealand connections - that a carbon trading scheme would cost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars.
Canadian anger builds over carbon trading
16 Jun 2009
Anger over Ottawa's complicated new carbon trading plan is starting to simmer now that farmers have read the details and learned it may not be as profitable as first believed.
World Bank pulls loan to Brazilian cattle giant
16 Jun 2009
The Work Bank has withdrawn a $90 million loan to Brazilian cattle giant Bertin following Greenpeace's release of a report linking the company to illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
Global climate agreement in sight, says UN
16 Jun 2009
An ambitious and effective global pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is in sight, the top United Nations climate change official said, as the latest round of negotiations wrapped up in Bonn.
Big computer companies scramble to go green
16 Jun 2009
The world’s leading computer makers are targeting green goals as they scramble to win environmentally aware customers.
US debates climate change role of farms and forests
16 Jun 2009
A dispute is heating up in the United States over the role of farms and forests in climate legislation.
How white roofs could have a green impact
16 Jun 2009
United States Energy Secretary Steven Chu says that global warming could be slowed by a low-tech idea that has nothing to do with coal plants or solar panels - white roofs.
Beatle Paul and Yoko push no meat on Mondays
16 Jun 2009
Beatles legend Paul McCartney has been joined by John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono to launch an appeal for meat-free Mondays.
Aust firms not ready for carbon scheme, says survey
12 Jun 2009
Australian businesses are mostly not prepared for the federal government's planned domestic carbon trading scheme, due to start in mid-2011, a new survey shows.
Canada to establish carbon trading market
12 Jun 2009
The Canadian federal government has announced plans to establish a national carbon trading market in which all companies and individuals could participate.
Japan under fire for 8% emissions cut target
12 Jun 2009
Japan has said it plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 8 per cent from 1990 levels by the end of the next decade, a goal attacked as too little by environmentalists.
Swedish PM calls for carbon taxes in Europe
12 Jun 2009
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has called for European nations to tax carbon emissions to reduce greenhouse gases.
Rich countries have ‘moral duty’ to cut emissions
12 Jun 2009
Britain needs to cut greenhouse gases by 45 per cent by 2020 to prevent the world "lurching into climate disaster", according to a report from Oxfam.
New climate pact ‘unlikely’ in Copenhagen
12 Jun 2009
The UN's top climate official has voiced doubt about the prospects for completing a new pact on global warming in Copenhagen by its much-touted December deadline.
Airline industry looks to global carbon solution
12 Jun 2009
The aviation industry needs a global solution in achieving carbon-neutral growth which will eventually lead to a zero carbon emission future.
Millions on move as climate changes, warns UN
12 Jun 2009
Climate change has already caused displacement and migration, and could uproot millions more in the future, warns a new United Nations-supported report.
How heifers became the Hummers of agriculture
12 Jun 2009
While most of the world debates penalising vehicle and industrial pollution, a United Nations report has fingered another guilty party - cows.
Shareholders left in dark on climate change
9 Jun 2009
The world's big corporations are failing to provide a full account to investors of the risks and potential costs of climate change, says a new report.
UK set to cut emissions 23 per cent by 2010
9 Jun 2009
Britain is on course to cut its greenhouse gas by about 23 per cent by 2010 from the 1990 level.
No need to rush climate laws, says Aust Opposition
9 Jun 2009
Claims by the US that its likely failure to finalise climate change legislation before December will not jeopardise the crucial Copenhagen talks have been seized on by the federal Opposition as evidence that Australia does not need to rush its laws through by the end of the year.
Flights tax could fund climate aid for poor countries
9 Jun 2009
Wealthy countries could be asked to accept a levy on international flight tickets to raise billions of dollars to help the world's poorest nations to adapt to climate change.
Japanese green-car makers slip back into top gear
9 Jun 2009
After months of cutting output, closing plants and laying off staff as its car exports crashed, Toyota has resumed overtime work to ramp up production of its latest Prius hybrid.
Land use seen as vital to fixing climate toll
9 Jun 2009
The world cannot effectively address climate change without altering people’s relationship with soil, the world’s third largest carbon pool, says a new report.
Nature best at handling climate change, says UN
9 Jun 2009
Nature is best at controlling the gases responsible for climate change, the UN Environment Programme believes.
Get smart on climate change, urges UN chief
9 Jun 2009
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for multilateralism and “smart solutions” to confront economic and climate challenges that could result in insecurity and upheaval.
Australian lower house passes carbon trade scheme
5 Jun 2009
Australia's much-debated carbon emissions trading law has passed its first parliamentary hurdle.
$155 billion spent on clean energy, says UN
5 Jun 2009
More than half the $US250 billion invested in new power generating capacity worldwide in 2008 was spent on renewable energy sources, according to a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report launched yesterday.
Wood the new coal in a low-carbon world
5 Jun 2009
Power companies are burning more trees because the renewable fuel can be cheaper than coal and ignited without needing permits to release carbon dioxide.
High-earning green sector workers feel safe in jobs
5 Jun 2009
Most workers in the thriving climate change sector feel just as safe in their jobs, if not more so, than they did a year ago, a new Reuters survey shows.
Companies not disclosing climate risks, say studies
5 Jun 2009
Most global industrial companies that emit a lot of greenhouse gases are not adequately detailing their climate strategies in US financial filings, two studies by environmental and investment groups have shown.
Pacific islands win UN vote on climate threats
5 Jun 2009
Small Pacific islands vulnerable to rising sea levels won a symbolic victory at the United Nations this week with the passage of a resolution recognising climate change as a possible threat to security.
Diesel-pusher VW signs with China hybrid builder
5 Jun 2009
Volkswagen, which usually spins its diesels as alternatives to green cars, is looking to partner China's BYD, maker of the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid.
NSW to build Australia's largest wind farm
5 Jun 2009
Australia’s biggest wind farm, with almost 600 turbines, is to be built in far western New South Wales.
Latest round of climate talks ‘progressing well’
5 Jun 2009
The latest round of United Nations climate change talks in Germany are making headway, a spokesperson for the world body said yestetrday.
Climate change crisis 'catastrophic', says new report
2 Jun 2009
The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a "silent crisis" that is killing 300,000 people a year.
Climate crisis like nuclear threat, say Nobel laureates
2 Jun 2009
Twenty Nobel prizewinners, including US energy secretary Steven Chu, have compared the threat of climate change to that posed to civilisation by nuclear weapons.
Australia's green energy push, Pacific ties face setback from COP31 impasse
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Australia risks undermining efforts to establish itself as a leader in the green energy transition and letting down its vulnerable Pacific island neighbours if its bid to host next year's biggest climate summit fails, diplomats and analysts say.
Trump is said to propose opening California coast to oil drilling
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months
Wed 12 Nov 2025
China’s carbon dioxide emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
EU countries seek another year-long deforestation law delay
Thu 13 Nov 2025
European Union member states are seeking to postpone the implementation of the bloc's anti-deforestation law by another year, an EU negotiating draft dated November 10 shows.
Scotland's first wind farm 'supercharged' after upgrade
Tue 11 Nov 2025
Scotland's first commercial wind farm will be able to deliver five times more clean power than before after being upgraded.
Canada’s new budget has billions in fossil subsidies disguised as climate action
Mon 10 Nov 2025
Ottawa's new CCS and hydrogen credits extend to 2035, but most of the billions go to oil sands and refining, not clean industry.
From mapping high-risk areas to building ‘sponge cities’: How Vietnam is adapting to climate extremes
6 Nov 2025
Vietnam is rethinking how it copes with floods after a year of relentless storms has collapsed hillsides and turned streets into rivers.
Mystery heatwave warms Pacific Ocean to new record
21 Oct 2025
The waters of the north Pacific have had their warmest summer on record, according to BBC analysis of a mysterious marine heatwave that has confounded climate scientists.
Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica
13 Oct 2025
Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate".
What do African countries want from COP30?
Tue 11 Nov 2025
At the UN climate summit, African negotiators are seeking more “debt-free” financing that would allow them to implement climate solutions – from adaptation to just transition.
COP30: Brazil tries to find a home for tricky issues
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Brazil is trying to craft a compromise package on several contentious issues and has dismissed the idea of a roadmap away from fossil fuels.
Ethiopia set to host UN's 2027 climate summit, 2026 undecided
Thu 13 Nov 2025
Uncertainty still surrounds which country will host next year's UN climate conference: Australia or Turkey. But for 2027, there's little mystery: it will almost certainly be Ethiopia, an African diplomatic powerhouse.
