Tag: Carbon Policy
Climate activist says NZ locked in a ‘compromised’ emissions scheme
RNZ News
A climate activist furious with the Aotearoa New Zealand government's watering down of the proposed emissions pricing scheme says he hopes for stronger...
‘The most significant environmentalist in history’ is now king. Two Australian...
ANALYSIS: By Nicole Hasham, The Conversation
The natural world is close to the heart of Britain’s new King Charles III. For decades, he has campaigned...
Climate change has already hit. Unless we act now, a hotter,...
ANALYSIS: By Michael Grose, CSIRO; Joelle Gergis, Australian National University; Pep Canadell, CSIRO, and Roshanka Ranasinghe
Australia is experiencing widespread, rapid climate change not seen...
China promotes ‘green’ belt and road, but pressured over coal investments
By Megan Darby, deputy editor of Climate Home News
China launched an “international green development coalition” last week, in the face of growing concern about...
Eelco Rohling: We need to get rid of carbon in the...
ANALYSIS: By Professor Eelco Rohling in Canberra
Getting climate change under control is a formidable, multifaceted challenge. Analysis by my colleagues and me suggests that...
Timber firm accused over Indonesian threat to last orangutan strongholds
By Basten Gokkon in Pontianak, West Kalimantan
A timber plantation company is illegally clearing one of Indonesia’s last coastal peat swamp forests, a carbon reservoir...
Coal comfort: Pacific nations on carbon collision course with Australia
By Dr Wesley Morgan in Suva
Uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of a warming world, Pacific island countries have long been considered the front-line of...
China coal plant building at crossroads amid carbon pricing reforms
China is currently building more coal plants than it needs and in doing so is misallocating capital at an unprecedented rate.
As of July 2016,...
Indonesia on fire, cross-boundary public health hazards
Fires in Indonesia, which burned more than 2.1 million hectares of forest and peatlands in 2015, have raged in dry seasons year on year,...
#COP21: ‘Filthy’ corporate sponsors bankrolling Paris summit exposed
Report from Eco Watch
By Andy Rowell of Oil Change International
Corporate Accountability International (CAI) released a report exposing the “filthy” track record of some of...