Climate Change Authority review
Last month the Climate Change Authority published a Draft Report of its Targets and Progress Review, which is to be completed by February 2014. Submissions to the Draft Report must be lodged on this webpage by 29 November 2013. The […]
Climate clippings 77
1. Antarctic ice melt studies A recent study by Abram et al showed that the ice on the Antarctic peninsula was melting about 10 times faster than it was 600 years ago, concluding that further melting was particularly sensitive to […]
European ETS
Last week when the European Parliament voted down a proposal to prop up the EU Emissions Trading System’s languishing carbon price by postponing the sale of 900 million emission allowances until the back-end of this decade the price fell to […]
International climate change policy after Copenhagen
Last night on Lateline, Ross Garnaut pointed out to an apparently taken aback Tony Jones that 57% support for the ETS – as a major reform – was actually extremely impressive. Today in New Matilda, Ben Eltham rightly says that […]
Where now for the CPRS?
So, the Greens aren’t too sad that the Rudd government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was blocked in the Senate – indeed they were a key component of that blocking. From the GreensMPs website: “The collapse of the Continue Polluting […]
Monbiot, air travel and targets
In the discussion thread of the post Climate crunch carbonsink @ 131 linked to Monbiot’s 2006 piece on air travel. Here’s an extract: …while the mean distance travelled by car in the UK is 9,200 miles per year, in a […]
The politics of the White Paper
There’s already been a fair bit of commentary on the carbon emissions White Paper here at LP. Bernard Keane sums up the substance accurately and concisely: The surrender is virtually complete. Our biggest polluters have won, and the rest of […]
Emissions trading and rent seeking: round two
The Fin Review reported yesterday that a host of resource company execs are descending on Canberra on Friday for a pow wow with Martin Ferguson. Initially this meeting was being presented as a way of circumventing the BCA, who released […]