By Rich Bowden: Tuvalu Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia has refused to put his name to the non-binding Copenhagen climate accord agreed at key climate discussions held in the Danish capital last week. Pacific States have described the political agreement, which would aim to restrict global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, as inadequate. Tuvalu...
By Rich Bowden: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told reporters that some agreement is still possible in key climate talks in Copenhagen despite major disagreements in over one hundred provisions. Despite a generally pessimistic view from world leaders as they fly in to Copenhagen for the culmination of nearly two weeks of acrimonious...
By Rich Bowden: Recently deposed Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull has launched an extraordinary attack on his colleagues calling the opinion of Tony Abbott, the man who replaced him as leader, “bullshit” on the subject of an emissions trading scheme. Mr Turnbull was rolled in a very public leadership spill last week after Mr Abbott...
By Rich Bowden: Updated: Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has hung on to the leadership after winning a motion to call a spill 48 to 35. Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey said Mr Turnbull had apologised for his handling of the ETS issue. The Australian Opposition appears to have split over whether to support the Government’s...
By Rich Bowden: The Australian Opposition appears to have split over whether to support the Government’s amendments to key climate legislation after an extraordinary day in which their leader’s job hangs by a thread. After a drawn-out eight-hour meeting, Malcolm Turnbull, Leader of the Opposition, appeared to try to ram through agreement to the...
By Kevin Rennie: With just over three weeks till key climate talks in Copenhagen, there is little optimism that a binding agreement will be reached. In Australia, Kevin Rudd’s Labor government has positioned itself uncomfortably in the middle of the national debate. Many of its supporters feel let down by what they see as...
A compromise emissions-cutting plan for developing countries has been described as a "race to the bottom" by Greens Senator Bob Brown.
Australian and NZ scientists are well represented in an open letter that calls on leaders to commit to bolder emissions targets.
