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29.10.2012
Coal resurgence threatens climate change targets
Coal is enjoying a renaissance, with the highest consumption of the fuel since the late 1960s. The unexpected development threatens to put climate change targets out of reach – and much of the reason is the rise of a supposedly "green" fuel, natural gas.
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26.10.2012
A meltdown over climate change
The high-temperature battle over the science of climate change got even hotter this week. A group of scientists who wrote a landmark, federally commissioned 2009 report are ticked off at the Cato Institute, which recently issued what the scientists say is a flimsy report that the libertarian think tank tried to make look like an extension of their original work.
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25.10.2012
Sign on now, UN climate chief says
THE United Nations climate chief has called on Australia to sign up to a new round of the greenhouse-gas-limiting Kyoto Protocol, saying it already has significant clean-energy policies in place.
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24.10.2012
Australia a major greenhouse player: UN
AUSTRALIA is not in "a lonely desert" as the only nation reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but is an emerging leader in the field, a key United Nations climate change official says.
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24.10.2012
Africans demand fairness in global climate change fight
Africa is part of the 195 states that form the United Nations Framework convention on Climate change with the next meeting being expected to be held in Doha, Qatar in November this year. However, as preparation for the meeting is going on globally, African states are already feeling left out as civil society organizations cite instances that have left the continent no much better ever since the collective effort to fight climate change begun in 1992. They claim that developed states are treating the whole cause with selfish interests.
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