Saturday, 6 September 2008
Ross "Mr 10%" Garnaut has delivered Australia's long awaited emmission target. See the video of his statement here.
In Garnaut's view Australia is too late to avoid “substantial impacts” which will, as he said in his dry economist’s tone, require “major adaptation", writes Bernard Keane.
Speaking exclusively to Crikey, Tim Flannery has solid praise for the emissions targets set today by Ross Garnaut, but says the game could change drastically in as little as five years from now.
In the end, Garnaut invests his hopes in the public, writes Clive Hamilton.
Greens Senator Christine Milne says, the ball is now in the Government’s court. Will it take the easy way out that Garnaut has given it? Or will it step up to the plate and deliver the 40% emissions cuts on 1990 levels?
Rather than wait for Penny Wong, we thought we’d jump the gun with our own Paper on the options for addressing climate change, writes Bernard Keane.
Crikey has stolen everyone else's ideas from our coverage over the past two years to bring you our very own Green Paper ahead of Penny Wong's release tomorrow.
With the release of the Garnaut Climate Change Review’s draft report on Friday, it’s worth quickly revisiting the reason for all of this --the changing state of the climate system, writes Ian McHugh.
If the Garnaut report continues the government's reliance on a carbon trading solution, we leave the future in the hands of the free market.
Beneath the sudden appearance of hypocrisy and confusion in the politics of climate change lie a couple of genuinely disturbing and difficult problems, writes Alan Kohler.
ABARE is a key input to the policy process in critical areas such as infrastructure, agricultural sustainability and climate change, writes Bernard Keane. But is it up to the job?
Nelson and Turnbull were taking the early body blows from their lack of unity over petrol excise cuts. Then what does the government do? Slams its own head into the turnbuckle, writes Adam Kilgour.
Every day Australian weather reports predict floods at one end of the country and drought at the other.
In the lead up to 24 November, greenhouse was a useful point of differentiation for the ALP. Now it’s something they have to do something about, writes Christian Kerr.
5 September 2008
NSW Labor in turmoil - Iemma, Costa dumped
Rundle on John McCain's big speech
Finding $39million a month: the pips squeak at PBL
Tim Flannery: Garnaut has made a good first step
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