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Stop BP deep drilling in Great Australian Bight
Before BP Deep Water Horizon rig fire disaster in Gulf of Mexico, Australia had a similar disaster with Montara rig, offshore north WA. Of course, there’s no disaster recovery equipment here at all. Minister Martin Ferguson, now advocate for expanding … Continue reading
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Tagged Bight, BP, climate emergency declaration, Martin Ferguson
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Person status protects river in new NZ law
The New Zealand government is planning on giving the country’s third largest river the same rights as a citizen. It’s part of a legal revolution recognising the Maori connection to the environment and shifting assumptions about human control of the … Continue reading
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Tagged climate emergency declaration, environment law, New Zealand
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Unravelling myth of “carbon budget” for 1.5C
Highly recommended to read in full per link below. A number of carbon budgets for 1.5°C have been published. Three are shown in Table 1. most frequently quoted case is the third listed (Table 2.2. of AR5 WG1 Synthesis report). The … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon budget, climate code red, climate emergency declaration, Phil Spratt
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World rank low R and D subsidy fossils not renewable energy
Australia winner medals gold, silver and bronze for R&D subsidy to ancient fossil fuel industry. But gold only for 2013, when 2013 established. Sixty-eight per cent of Labor voters want the Senate to block the cuts and amazingly, a greater number … Continue reading
Solar Delivers Cheapest Electricity ‘Ever, Anywhere, By Any Technology’
Chile has just contracted for the cheapest unsubsidized power plant in the world, Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) reports. In last week’s energy auction, Chile accepted a bid from Spanish developer Solarpack Corp. Tecnologica for 120 megawatts of solar at the stunning price of $29.10 … Continue reading
Arctic Cruise Liner review
This week, a massive, luxury cruise liner departed from Anchorage, Alaska, on the first leg of a 32-day cruise through the Northwest Passage. More than 15 years ago, scientists found ecosystem around Aleutian Islands had completely shifted. A small rise in … Continue reading
Are Commonwealth climate targets legally negligent? An Australian Urgenda
MON, AUG 22 AT 1:00 PM, CARLTON, VIC By: Australian-German Climate and Energy College In June 2015, The Hague District Court found the Dutch government’s climate targets negligent in the case of Urgenda v The Netherlands. The court ordered government to increase … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, climate emergency declaration, legal case, negligence, Urgenda
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Fire season Indonesia begins
Fires detected in Indonesia during a single week in October 2015. Global Forest Watch Indonesia is destroying its rainforests faster than any other tropical nation, and it is at the heart of the recurring air-pollution crisis in Southeast Asia. Its policies will … Continue reading
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Tagged climate emergency declaration, Indonesia, palm oil, Peat fires
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Why no Defence Force against climate change?
We Need to Literally Declare War on Climate Change Bernie Sanders calls it like it is – an emergency. The next step in response to this week’s Call to Arms from Bernie Sanders and Bill McKibben is to demand … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie Sanders, Bill McKibben, climate emergency declaration
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Deflect, distract, deny, delay – response to rapidly changing climate
Listen now(Link will open in new window) Download audio show transcript Bob Beale has been writing on science and the environment since he worked as a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald. Here he reflects on the lack of concern and … Continue reading
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Tagged climate emergency declaration, coral reefs, kelp forests, ocean warming
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