HOME ABOUT US ADVERTISE SUBSCRIBE SITEMAP HELP CONTACT   Tuesday 9 February 2010 Make EMN my HomePage    AIR/CLIMATE STORIES [ 1304 Results - Showing Results 1 to 30 ] Carbon policy merry-go-round spins again (Wednesday, 3 February 2010) The carbon policy merry-go-round continues after Liberals leader Tony Abbott yesterday unveiled the Coalition's $3.2 billion climate change policy and the Government launched its third attempt to have Parliament approve its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, which has already been rejected by the Senate twice and looks sure to fail again. Reaction to Abbott’s alternative proposals, however, has been mixed. Full Story... Abbott looks back to the future (Tuesday, 2 February 2010) Opposition leader Tony Abbott has announced a $1 billion emissions reduction fund at the centre of the Coalition's new $3.2b climate change policy. The fund would invest in direct measures to help the public, industry and farmers cut emissions, just like the old Greenhouse Gas Abatement Program (GGAP). Full Story... IMF announces billions for climate change at Davos (Tuesday, 2 February 2010) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is planning a $US100 billion ($112 billion) fund to help countries mitigate the effects of climate change, the agency's head said at the World Economic Forum. "The new growth model will be low carbon," Dominique Strauss-Kahn, MD of the IMF, told political and business leaders meeting in Davos on the weekend. Full Story... Carbon pledges on the UN table (Monday, 1 February 2010) Canada’s Environment Minister Jim Prentice has pledged his country to following the US lead and also reducing its emissions by 17% from 2005 levels. With pledges to the UN due over the weekend, China and India have also committed to reduce the carbon intensity of their economies, by 40-45% and 20-25% respectively by 2020 from 2005 levels. Full Story... Sackett vs Monckton: climate smackdown (Friday, 29 January 2010) Individual citizens need to make up their own minds about climate change and, in order to do so, they need to hear from scientists who have studied the climate and actively engage in the process of science, said Australia’s chief scientist, Penny Sackett. Her carefully crafted statement attempts to counter media hysteria surrounding the tour of Lord Christopher Monckton, international poster child for climate change scepticism. Full Story... ABS reports on environmental trends (Friday, 29 January 2010) Despite the rise of alternative waste treatment technologies, Australia’s dependence on landfill for waste management has strengthened in the last decade. According to the latest report on environmental trends by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the volume of waste deposited into landfill increased 12% between 2001 and 2007, from 19 million tonnes to 21.3 million tonnes. Full Story... Skin deep: companies fail to tell their climate change tale (Wednesday, 27 January 2010) US companies aren’t getting the bang for their buck in terms of internal climate change initiatives, found a new study titled MapChange 2010, with consumers confused about who is making a real effort. Deakin University’s Marketing Professor Michael Polonsky said Australians were similarly in the dark. Full Story... Global firms test supply chain protocol (Monday, 25 January 2010) Last week 60 global corporations including Hydro Tasmania began measuring the greenhouse emissions of their products and supply chains through a new global framework that is part of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative. The road test will measure the climate change impact of products ranging from magazines, food and jeans to computers, wind turbines and steel. Full Story... US EPA breathes new life into poor smog standards (Wednesday, 13 January 2010) The US EPA has proposed newer and stricter health standards to date for smog. The agency is proposing to replace the standards set by the previous administration, which many believe were not protective enough of human health. Full Story... Why Copenhagen will fail and why that doesn’t matter (Friday, 18 December 2009) There will probably be some kind of agreement at Copenhagen. It’s hard to imagine all those world leaders walking away without one. However I’m not spending anytime at all wondering what the result will be. Why? Because it just doesn’t matter. You see we’re not ready to fix climate change, not yet, blogs Paul Gilding. Full Story... Infrastructure industry feels the heat on climate risk (Wednesday, 16 December 2009) CEO of Climate Risk Karl Mallon believes the science of climate change is moving too fast for infrastructure standards to keep up. He has called for more dynamic approaches to folding climate change into the infrastructure development process. Full Story... World’s cities demand action now at COP 15 (Wednesday, 16 December 2009) In the midst of Copenhagen climate talks, Sydney has announced it is looking to fast-track the uptake of electric vehicles by establishing charging stations and converting its car fleet. Melbourne, meanwhile, is telling a meeting of global mayors at the UN talks of its progress retrofitting 13 buildings through the Clinton Climate Initiative Full Story... Tracing carbon accounting back to the large emitters (Tuesday, 15 December 2009) Less than half of companies in a report by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants disclose specific climate change-related information using GRI indicators. The report, released at Copenhagen, says the climate change policy framework needs to be firmed up considerably to encourage voluntary disclosure. Full Story... Business meets at COP 15 to tackle climate change (Monday, 14 December 2009) It was business that provided the greatest outcome at the disappointing Johannesburg Earth Summit in 2002. But at Copenhagen Business Day last Friday, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer noted the business community’s lack of relevance to the negotiations at the international level and said business needs to “define an attractive product” to elicit government attention. Full Story... US EPA delivers final blow to CO2 emissions (Wednesday, 9 December 2009) The US EPA has determined that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and the environment, paving the way for regulation of CO2 emissions from vehicles, power plants, factories refineries and other major sources. EPA chief Lisa Jackson announced the step at a news conference in Washington on Monday. Full Story... Lord Mayors urge Rudd to act on carbon cuts (Monday, 7 December 2009) The Federal Government should adopt stronger short-term actions for carbon emissions abatement with the Council of Capital City Lord Mayors, says a briefing paper prepared by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF). It says the focus on medium- and long-term measures could undermine public confidence, while cities are well placed to fill the gap. Full Story... Leading climate analysts call for increased climate change targets (Friday, 4 December 2009) A massive increase in investment into research and innovation is needed to drive the transition to a low-carbon environment, said Australia’s chief scientist, Professor Penny Sackett, in a key speech on climate change yesterday. Meanwhile, climate change economist Lord Nicholas Stern now thinks preventing runaway global warming may be twice as expensive as previously thought. Full Story... China, US emissions pledges not enough: EU President (Monday, 30 November 2009) As crucial climate talks draw closer the president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, has restated that the international community must do more to ensure a climate change agreement can be reached next week in Copenhagen. Full Story... China pledges 45% carbon intensity target by 2020 (Friday, 27 November 2009) Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao plans to cut the intensity of the country’s carbon emissions by 40–45% by 2020 compared to 2005 levels, similar to the US goal if differently expressed. In order to meet the target, China will have to implement ambitious energy-efficiency and fuel-switching policies. Full Story... ACT to back ambitious carbon neutral target (Wednesday, 18 November 2009) The ACT Government is poised to set itself the most ambitious carbon emissions reduction target in the country, committing to seeing CO2 emissions peak by 2013, falling 40% by 2020, and being carbon neutral by 2060. Australia’s Capital Territory will, however, wait for the outcome of the Copenhagen talks next month before making a final decision on the plan. Full Story... A last ditch effort to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (Friday, 13 November 2009) Green Cooling Association director Brent Hoare said the 21st Meeting of Parties to the Montreal Protocol, held in Egypt, missed the opportunity to take swift action on reducing the global warming impact of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), used as a replacement for ozone-depleting gasses. In Australia, action to reduce the use of HFCs will be further jeopardised if the Opposition succeeds in pushing an amendment to exclude HFCs from the CPRS. Full Story... Capital city mayors agree to 41% CO2 cuts by 2020 (Monday, 9 November 2009) Office workers will be packed tighter into workplaces while old buildings and city streets will be lit up with environmentally friendly lighting under an agreement between the lord mayors of every Australian capital city to reduce carbon emissions. The Council of Capital City Lord Mayors (CCCLM) committed on Friday to a seven-point plan they expect will lower greenhouse emissions 57Mt a year by 2020, or 41% of projected pollution figures. Full Story... Will it or won’t it? Tug of war continues over coal jobs (Monday, 2 November 2009) The Australian Coal Association (ACA) and NSW Minerals Council have stoked up the heat over the impact of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme on coal mines and coal jobs, but Citi Investment Research has poured cold water on the claims. Full Story... Planes to run on biofuels by 2011 (Wednesday, 28 October 2009) The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says it will approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2011 in a bid to drastically reduce the industry's carbon footprint. It estimates aviation biofuel could reduce CO2 emissions by 80%. Full Story... Satellite imaging tackles global warming (Monday, 26 October 2009) Taking the climate campaign to new heights are a new Google-affiliated project using satellites to monitor forests annually and a new map delivered to British ministers that illustrates the global consequences of failing to keep global average temperature increases to less than 2 degrees C. The map highlights some of the impacts that may occur under a 4 degree C increase above the pre-industrial climate average. Full Story... Cool nrg’s partnership with Mexico sees the light (Friday, 23 October 2009) Australian company Cool nrg has launched a world-first household energy efficiency project under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows companies in industrialised nations to finance emissions reduction in developing countries. It is behind an efficiency light bulb program in Mexico that is using a slightly different approach than traditional CDM projects. Full Story... 5-year window for climate action, says WWF report (Tuesday, 20 October 2009) Global, low-carbon re-industrialisation will have to be underway before 2014 to avoid dangerous warming of more than 2 degrees C, found a major economic modelling project called Climate Solutions 2. Commissioned by WWF Australia, it says global emissions trading schemes are not enough and gives us five years before a “viable solution [is] beyond our reach”. Full Story... Turnbull receives backing from party to ETS amendments (Monday, 19 October 2009) Clean Energy Council CEO Matthew Warren has welcomed two Opposition amendments to the emissions trading scheme, including energy efficiency, but was lukewarm about the rest of the six planks unveiled yesterday. Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull won a limited licence to negotiate the scheme from his party room, but says their reforms could save thousands of jobs and limit increases in electricity prices. Full Story... Parsons Brinckerhoff to evaluate CCS Flagships Program (Wednesday, 14 October 2009) Australian governments are focusing a great deal of resources on developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, and a host of organisations are racing for a slice of the well-funded pie. Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) together with consortium partners ACIL Tasman, KPMG and Senergy, have now been chosen to assist the Commonwealth’s Independent Assessment Panel to CCS projects as part of the CCS Flagships Program initiative. Full Story... Australia’s views on climate change and nuclear at odds (Tuesday, 13 October 2009) Climate change has slipped from top spot on the list of public priorities and is today seen as less of a threat to national interests, according to a 2009 Lowy Institute poll released today. On the other hand, a survey by The Age/Nielsen found Australians more open to the nuclear energy option. Both findings surprise. Full Story... 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