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'We don't want to be just a coal mine for China'
Guardian Unlimited | 07 Sep 2010
Australia's new minority government must balance the economic benefits of a booming coal industry with an electorate calling for climate action. West of Australia's Great Dividing Range, a cluster of giant black gashes marks one of the country's biggest coal mines. Latrobe valley's pits and power plants provide 85% of the electricity used by the 5 million residents of the state of Victoria.

Australia | Energy Production

Legal challenge over climate change data
The Australian | 16 Aug 2010
SCIENTISTS affirm that greenhouse gas emissions from humas are the main cause of warming.

Australia | Climate Change Science | Further Proof | Global Warming | Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Major Australia investors urge quick action on climate
Reuters | 25 Jun 2010
SYDNEY (Reuters) - A group of major investors on Friday urged Australia's new Prime Minister Julia Gillard to take swift action to fight climate change and cut carbon emissions blamed for heating up the planet. "We consider that climate change presents real risks to the Australian economy, which must be addressed," the group said in a statement.Gillard moved to revive a stalled carbon trading scheme on Thursday, within hours of becoming prime minister after incumbent Kevin Rudd stepped down.

Australia | Climate Change Mitigation | Economy | EU Emission Trading Scheme | Government and Climate Change

New Australian PM vows to revive carbon debate
Reuters | 24 Jun 2010
SYDNEY (Reuters) - New Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard moved to revive a stalled carbon trading scheme on Thursday, pledging more consultation with industry and voters to win support for an issue that has split the nation. Gillard, in her first comments to the media after former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stepped down earlier on Thursday, said she believed in climate change, backed renewable energy and that the nation needed a price on carbon emissions.

Australia | Emissions Trading and Flexible Mechanisms | Renewable Energy

Australia on track to meet Kyoto target: government
Reuters | 27 May 2010
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia is on track to meet its greenhouse gas emissions target under the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol climate pact in part because of the global economic downturn, the government said on Thursday.

Australia | Energy Production | Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Australia parliament debates amended green power laws
Reuters | 12 May 2010
Laws to overhaul Australia's renewable energy scheme were introduced into parliament on Wednesday in a move that should reassure industry and underpin billions of dollars in investments.

Australia | Government and Climate Change | Policy | Renewable Energy

Westpac targets NZ foresters in carbon trade
Reuters | 04 May 2010
SINGAPORE/WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Australia's Westpac bank has begun buying carbon offsets from New Zealand forest owners with the aim of selling them to big polluting firms as part of the country's emissions trading scheme, the bank said on Tuesday.

Australia | New Zealand | Carbon Storage | Emissions Trading and Flexible Mechanisms

Global Warming: Future Temperatures Could Exceed ... - Science Daily
ScienceDaily.com | 04 May 2010
... wet-bulb temperature above 95 degrees sustained for six hours or more, said Matthew Huber ... Arabia near the coast where winds occasionally bring extremely hot, humid ocean air over hot land leading to unbearably stifling conditions, which ...

Australia | Climate and Atmosphere | Global Warming | Research

Emissions to soar in ETS limbo - report
The Australian | 29 Apr 2010
Australia's greenhouse gas emissions will soar by 80 million tonnes a year if there is no emissions trading, a Government report shows.

Australia | Climate Change | Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Australia shelves climate scheme
BBC World Service | 27 Apr 2010
Australia says a key emissions trading scheme will not start until 2013 at the earliest, after it was repeatedly blocked in the Senate.

Australia | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol | EU Emission Trading Scheme

Global agricultural alliance sets its research agenda
SCIDEV.NET | 20 Apr 2010
The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases has decided on a way forward following a meeting in New Zealand this month.

New Zealand | Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Quick fix for coal mine methane emissions
ScienceDaily.com | 14 Apr 2010
A new methane burner has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from underground coal mines by almost 90 per cent. If adopted by industry, the burner would substantially reduce the coal mining industry's greenhouse gas liability, should emissions trading take effect."Emissions occur when air is pumped into underground ground coal mines for ventilation, releasing methane into the atmosphere," he says.

Australia | Climate Change Adaptation | Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Industry

Feeling the heat in Australia
chinadialogue.net | 13 Apr 2010
The defeat of climate-change legislation has dealt a blow to the green credentials of the world’s driest inhabited continent. Erwin Jackson examines the nation’s prospects for building a low-carbon economy.Recent news of an Australian firm’s US$60 billion (410 billion yuan) deal to

Australia | Carbon Storage | Renewable Energy

Climate change puts Australian reef on 'knife edge'
The Independent | 25 Mar 2010
The world's southernmost coral reef is on a "knife-edge" after warmer seas blamed on climate change bleached large parts of it for the first time, an Australian scientist warned on Wednesday.

Australia | Climate Change Impacts | Global Warming

Earlier butterfly emergence linked to climate change
ScienceDaily.com | 19 Mar 2010
Butterflies are emerging in spring over 10 days earlier than they did 65 years ago, a shift that has been linked to regional human-induced climate change in an Australian-led study. The work reveals a causal link between increasing greenhouse gases, regional warming and the change in timing of a natural event.

Australia | Biodiversity | Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change

Artist places sculptures on melting Arctic iceberg
Reuters | 19 Mar 2010
UUMMANNAQ, Greenland (Reuters) - A Dutch artist arranged two large sculptures on an iceberg in Greenland on Friday to raise awareness about climate change, and people will be able to monitor it online as the ice melts.

Australia | Climate Change and Development | New Technologies

Climate report shows Australia getting warmer
Reuters | 15 Mar 2010
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's top scientists on Monday released a "State of the Climate" report at a time of growing scepticism over climate change as a result of revelations of errors in some global scientific reports.

Australia | Climate Change | Global Warming

Population growth has no relation to global warming
Independent Online | 30 Sep 2009
A study by the International Institute for Environment and Development analysed changes in population and in greenhouse gas emissions for the entire world. The results were startling.

New Zealand | Global Warming | Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Australia's warm winter a record
BBC World Service | 03 Sep 2009
Australia records its warmest ever winter and fears the coming bush fire season.

Australia | Climate Change | Global Warming

Coral reefs adapting to climate change
The Australian | 11 Dec 2008
WITH nearly 20 per cent of the world's coral reefs gone, scientists say some have adapted to cope with climate change.

Australia | Climate Change Adaptation | Climate Change

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