Only a few months ago, Kevin Rudd’s election promises echoed in my ears – climate change to be made a priority, signing Kyoto at the Bali climate change talks and encouraging renewable energy targets. I celebrated the end of the Howard legacy and had (somewhat optimistic) high hopes for the new climate-caring Australian government.
However, Howard’s […]
Its been a bad election for climate change sceptics, but there are a number of them still left in the Parliament. And one of them could yet lead the Liberal Party.
The Australian election was a comprehensive thumping for the conservative parties. And one of the things that hurt them most was their (non) position on climate change - in particular the refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. Former environment minister, and now frontrunner for the Liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, was unequivocal the Monday after the […]
So Labor got up, big time. Congratulations to them. Their victory
represents a golden opportunity for the new government to take strong
leadership on the key election issue of climate change, by quitting coal
and delivering the deep emission cuts required to avoid dangerous global
warming.
While Kevin 07 was about winning the election, Kevin 08 will have to be […]
On election eve, where are we placed after all the froth and bubble of the campaign?
We don’t yet know who’s going to win the election tomorrow night but there are a number of things that we do know:
Munmorah, NSW Central Coast, Thursday 8am 15 November 2007: I’m just touching base from the roof of Munmorah coal fired power station, where my fellow climbers have painted the message ‘Coal Kills’. And that’s exactly why we’re up here – because coal kills. It’s killing our planet, it’s killing our economy and it’s killing our […]
Last night a diverse and at times raucous crowd of 150 Wentworth residents turned out to hear how their candidates for the federal election would deal with the most pressing issue facing the planet: climate change. In a seat where environmental issues are dominating the agenda, it is no surprise that the crowd were fired […]
Climate change and renewable energy was always going to be a big election issue. John Howard came out of the blocks early with his clean energy target to increase renewable energy and so called ‘clean coal’. The ALP trumped it today with their announcement of a target to achieve 20% renewable energy by 2020.
Australia’s climate change response: Guy Pearse speaking tour
Greenpeace is excited to announce a series of climate change forums with Guy Pearse, the Liberal insider turned whistleblower on climate change.
After what feels like a long wait, our federal election has finally been called. Although Greenpeace campaigns 365 days a year, elections are important milestones in our work as they focus the public and politicians on all sorts of issues.
And for the first time in an Australian election, climate change is a key issue of […]
What would Australia look like in 2020 if our Governments got serious about climate change?
According to Dr Mark Diesendorf we can cut our greenhouse pollution by 30% by 2020, but only if we get really serious about shifting from coal to renewables, massively increasing energy efficiency and decarbonising our transport fleet. We will also need […]
Do you ever wake up and feel, to use that US expression, like it is ‘Ground Hog Day’? Well, today is one of those days with Malcolm Turnbull saying that Australia may consider signing ‘a modified Kyoto Protocol’.
After ten years of being a climate sceptic, John Howard begrudgingly pronounced himself a climate change realist. But while the rhetoric has changed, Government policy hasn’t. Australia’s greenhouse pollution continues to soar as the renewables industry slowly but surely packs its bags and heads overseas. Meanwhile the coal industry continues to expand with the help […]
Today the ALP today announced that they intend to phase out the installation of electric hot water systems over the next 5 years.
Greenpeace welcomed the announcement as a positive and simple measure which will make a significant impact on household greenhouse pollution. (Some of the coverage can be seen in the SMH […]
We’ve all had days like this. Everything seems fine, you’re working to plan and even hopeful of a 5pm finish when suddenly, someone throws a massive rock in your pond and all plans go completely astray. That’s what happened today, when we got a tip-off that Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull was on Bondi Beach with […]
Things are heating up in the eastern suburbs Melbourne seat of Deakin. Sitting member Phil Baressi has in recent months been the subject of a Greenpeace leaflet which highlighted that Mr Baressi hasn’t mentioned the words climate change in Parliament in his 11 years of office. The leaflet was letterboxed in Deakin from April to […]