Via SMH (“Rudd makes Kyoto history“):
“Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has formally handed the official document ratifying the Kyoto Protocol to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.”
Yaaaay!
There is of course a major shit-fight coming with industry over how to legislate this decision – which should be equally interesting to watch – but it’s still a fantastic decision [...]
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Kyoto Now a Done Deal
Posted in Environment, Politics on 12 December 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Economy versus Ecology
Posted in Economics, Environment, Politics on 29 November 2007 | 2 Comments »
Following on my last post, I want to clarify that I see a great deal of merit in the arguments that Steve Biddulph presents in his article and wholeheartedly agree that we need to get moving towards proper ecological sustainability in order to avoid eminent disaster – and I don’t just mean ecological disaster. [...]
New research challenges global warming theories
Posted in Environment, Research on 11 July 2007 | 2 Comments »
Via ABC News Online:
New research challenges global warming theories – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): “…a report in a Royal Society journal says that data on sun spot activity and cosmic rays shows the sun’s impact on the climate since the mid-1980s has been a cooling one.”
This has interesting implications for the argument on Global [...]
Ecosystem Services
Posted in Environment, Politics on 17 November 2006 | 1 Comment »
The Sydney Morning Herald announced today (“Gore film shortlisted for Oscar“, November 17, 2006:
“An Inconvenient Truth, which presents the former vice president’s case about the dangers of global warming, is among 15 feature-length documentaries that made the short list for Oscar consideration, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced [...]
Just an excuse
Posted in Environment, Politics on 15 November 2006 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald (Australia relegated to ‘observer’ at climate meet“, 14 November 2006) highlighted a recent move by the UN Climate Change Conference in which Australia has been relegated to the status of “observer” at the upcoming event.
The move is a sharp rebuttal to the ongoing refusal of the Howard Government to ratify the [...]
Don’t call it a comeback
Posted in Environment on 14 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Some positive environmental news made headlines yesterday with the release of a survey that indicates “the cover and density of the world’s forests is increasing in some countries.”
ABC News Online (“World’s forests making a comeback, survey finds“, 14 November 2006) reported on the release of a survey by the American National Academy of Sciences that [...]
e-Waste
Posted in Environment, Tech Musings on 27 June 2006 | Leave a Comment »
In many ways the computer age has done a lot for the environment. Innovative technologies and tools that have enabled the digitisation of information – including word processing, financial record keeping and mail correspondence – have largely reduced our reliance on paper as a storage and transportation medium. You can bank and send [...]
More than a NIMBY issue
Posted in Environment, Politics on 5 June 2006 | Leave a Comment »
(I suppose this would constitute more of a ranting op/ed piece than other posts I’ve offered recently, but at the moment I really can’t resist.)
Within the last few days an increasing number of people in the Australian Federal government have begun to speak of the need for a dialogue on the uptake of nuclear power [...]
Cultivating Social Benefits
Posted in Economics, Environment on 29 November 2005 | Leave a Comment »
According to an article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald (“Pay us to preserve our forests: PNG“, November 29, 2005):
“Arguing that the rest of the world is benefiting from their natural wealth without shouldering the cost, a bloc of developing countries led by Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica plans to make a novel proposition in [...]
