As Emma wrote a week ago, investing in a sustainable green collar economy makes sense.
But its not just environmentalists who are making the claims. A senior executive at the United Nations Environment Programme this week pointed out that current political efforts to curb pollution are simply not working. His solution was for governments to adopt […]
With the media running headlines about the “global emergency”, “threat to national security”, and need for a “war effort” you could be forgiven for thinking that the penny had finally dropped among world leaders about the seriousness of climate change.
But of course it takes the threat of economic meltdown, not merely planetary meltdown, to spur […]
There are still pirates out there, whether they be in a country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) or on the high seas, but they aren’t the swashbuckling kind you see in movies. Today’s pirates aren’t after gold; most are after the Pacific’s treasure – tuna stocks … which are perilously depleting.
Greenpeace International has released an […]
Professor Garnaut said he is hoping for a global agreement to limit greenhouse emissions to a level that is in Australia’s best interest as he delivered his final report to a press conference at Parliament House yesterday.
Keeping greenhouse emission levels to 450 parts per million (ppm) is the minimum that scientists say needs to be […]