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Climate change action belies fears
The Herald Sun
08 May 2008
AUSTRALIANS see climate change as the nation’s biggest problem but appear unwilling to change their lives to reduce their large environmental footprint, an international survey has found.
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China, Brazil, India all ‘greener’ than Australia
The Mercury
Climate change action belies fears
The Mercury
Brazil, India have ‘greenest’ consumers
The Sunday Times
People fear climate change, but won’t act
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ABC Online
Green index puts India, Brazil on top, US trails
The Advertiser
Brazil, India have ‘greenest’ consumers
The Age
Aussies a middling shade of green
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| Unions work over China on climate
The Australian
08 May 2008
UP to $19 billion worth of planned investment in the aluminium industry and 20,000 jobs could be lost to China if the federal Government does not allocate free emission trading permits to the sector, unions have warned.
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| Carboncapture crucial to coal future: summit
The Sydney Morning Herald
08 May 2008
AUSTRALIA has no choice but to rely heavily on carbon capture and storage to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in time to make a difference on climate change, delegates to the NSW Government’s “clean coal” summit were told.
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| Koalas’ future: hot, hungry
The Sydney Morning Herald
08 May 2008
KOALAS are under threat from climate change because rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels will affect the availability of their food, an Australian scientist has warned.
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| Innovation the key to making Melbourne liveable
The Age
08 May 2008
CURRENT ways of delivering urban water and energy systems, waste management, transport, planning and governance are neither appropriate nor sufficiently resilient in the face of 21st century challenges. This resource-constrained, carbon-constrained world is beset by development pressures, including record levels of immigration to cities such as Melbourne.
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| NZ undoes $1m whale case against Japan
The Australian
08 May 2008
AUSTRALIA is likely to abandon its $1 million attempt to take Japan to the international court over whaling after New Zealand gave up its plans to use legal action to stop the annual cull.
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Australia likely to abandon whaling case
ABC Online
Smith keeps whaling court options open
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| Bligh wants more ‘drought-proofing’ cash
The West Australian
08 May 2008
The Queensland government has sought more federal money to drought-proof the state’s south-east corner, as the state’s largest council attacks water restrictions as “unworkable”.
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| Canada facing Kyoto probe
The Courier Mail
08 May 2008
CANADA will be investigated on suspicion of violating rules for registering greenhouse gases that are the mainstay of a UN-led fight against global warming, official documents show.
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| Quarrels led to watered-down solar plan
The Age
08 May 2008
AN AMBITIOUS plan to give big subsidies to people who put solar power panels on their homes was watered down on the eve of the state budget after heated clashes between senior cabinet ministers.
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| Big fish fried again
The Australian
08 May 2008
THERE is a familiar pattern emerging in the way in which Environment Minister and former rock star Peter Garrett does business. He takes a popular issue, exaggerates or misrepresents the facts, promises to take action and is later mugged by reality and forced into a humiliating backdown.
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| Rudd soothes an angry Japan
The Sydney Morning Herald
08 May 2008
THE Japanese Government was more concerned about Australia’s criticism of whaling than Kevin Rudd’s failure to visit Tokyo last month during his first major overseas trip.
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Rudd soothes an angry Japan
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| Obsession with car sending us way of the DODO
The Age
08 May 2008
THE many recent environmental supplements in The Age and its broad range of articles on the sustainability crisis are heartening. Efficiency and technical change, however, are the “low-hanging fruit” of sustainability.
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| Federal action plea on Binningup
The West Australian
08 May 2008
The Federal Government is being urged to intervene in plans to build WA’s second major desalination plant near Binningup, north of Bunbury, with local residents arguing that State political forces were pushing the project ahead at any cost.
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| EU delays ruling on GM products
The Sydney Morning Herald
08 May 2008
The European Commission on Wednesday ordered more tests on whether several genetically modified products should be allowed in Europe, putting back a decision on whether to give approval.
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| Big Day Out for music festival organisers
News.com.au
08 May 2008
ORGANISERS of Melbourne’s Big Day Out concerts were fined more than $5500 yesterday for breaching excessive noise restrictions and warned to do better next year.
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| Clean air could kill the Amazon
The Australian
08 May 2008
CLEANER air due to reduced coal burning could help destroy the Amazon this century, according to a finding published today that highlights the complex challenges of global climate change.
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| Asian bank to fund climate change adaption
ABC Radio Australia
08 May 2008
The Asian Development Bank says it’s setting up a new fund to help the Asia Pacific adapt to climate change.
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| It’s still all about China and carbons
The Herald Sun
08 May 2008
IS WHAT’S good for BHP Billiton good for Australia, General Motors style? You decide.
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| Use stormwater to solve crisis
The Advertiser
08 May 2008
STORMWATER flows out to the Gulf St Vincent while we take roughly the same amount of water from the Murray, ignoring the potential to recycle up to 160,000 million litres.
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| Climate expert sees bright future for coal
The Age
08 May 2008
CLIMATE change adviser Ross Garnaut believes “clean coal” technology will be commercially viable by 2020, contradicting claims made this week by environment group Greenpeace International.
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| Students learn from energy savings, says minister
ABC Online
08 May 2008
Energy-saving measures in some South Australian schools are to be backed by $1 million of state funding.
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| Murray boost for vital wetland
ABC Online
08 May 2008
A wetland of international standing will get an inflow of more than 600 megalitres from the Murray late this month.
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| Angela, Pamela mines not welcome: native title holders
ABC Online
08 May 2008
Alice Springs native title holders have pleaded for help in opposing a proposed uranium mine south of Alice Springs.
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| Tenders called for Coal Valley emergency water pipeline
ABC Online
08 May 2008
Plans to install an emergency water pipeline have been welcomed by drought-stricken producers in the Coal River Valley in Tasmania’s south-east.
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| Forests body plans to reduce smoke from regeneration burns
ABC Online
08 May 2008
Tasmania’s Forest Practices Authority is planning steps to reduce the amount of smoke from forest regeneration burns that drifts over residential areas.
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| RBA board member highlights climate change ‘policy vacuum’
ABC Online
07 May 2008
A Reserve Bank board member and an internationally recognised climate change expert has expressed concern at the lack of Government policy to effectively deal with global warming.
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| Carbon trading’s big leap
The Age
07 May 2008
The global carbon market more than doubled in 2007 from 2006 to $US64 billion ($67.5 billion), the World Bank said in a report issued on Wednesday.
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Carbon trading’s big leap
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| Toad battle plan pushes youth forward
The Australian
07 May 2008
YOUNG cane toads should be released into toad-free regions of Australia before the invasion of their fully developed brethren so native animals can learn to avoid them.
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| Australia ‘drowning’ in electronic waste
Macquarie Radio Network
07 May 2008
The federal government is being pressed to fast-track a national scheme for recycling Australia’s growing pile of electronic waste.
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| Govt defends Qld aerial brumby culling
ABC Online
07 May 2008
The culling of thousands of brumbies in a central Queensland national park has been condemned by an environmental group.
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| Biodiesel unviable: Mission Biofuels
The Age
07 May 2008
Mission Biofuels Ltd says current high feedstock prices make it unviable for to consistently produce biodiesel for the foreseeable future.
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| Green spin leaves shoppers baffled
The Sydney Morning Herald
07 May 2008
SUPERMARKET shelves are flooded with “greenwash”, says the consumer group Choice, creating a culture of confusion and cynicism among shoppers.
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| Ethanol subsidy funding still under review
ABC Online
07 May 2008
The Federal Agriculture Minister says no decision has been made on whether to continue funding for an ethanol subsidy program.
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| River forum pushes for increased buyback funding
ABC Online
07 May 2008
A national conference has been told that the Federal Government needs to spend more money to buyback water from irrigators.
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