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When Will Australia’s GHG Emissions Peak?
Posted by Age: Tom Arup on February 1st, 2016
Age: Australia's national greenhouse gas emissions are set to keep rising well beyond 2020 on current trends, with the projected growth rate one of the worst in the developed world, a new analysis has found. An assessment of recent government emissions data, carried out by the carbon consultancy firm RepuTex, says that in the 2014-15 financial year Australia's carbon pollution rose for the first time in almost a decade when compared to the previous year. From there they say separate government forecasts,...
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Australia urged to bring forward emissions cuts
Posted by Age: Tom Arup on November 4th, 2015
Age: Australia should accelerate its emissions cuts by bringing its target forward by five years, Marshall Islands foreign minister Tony de Brum says, while warning that his tiny Pacific nation was already feeling the effects of climate change.
Mr de Brum's comments came during Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's visit to the Marshall Islands - a vulnerable collection of isolated, small coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean.
Mr Shorten said Labor would embrace more ambitious climate targets for Australia...
Looking for the fingerprints of climate changes on today’s extreme weather
Posted by Age: Tom Arup on June 22nd, 2015
Age: A heatwave strikes the city. Temperatures rise well over 40 degrees for several consecutive days. Train tracks buckle. Trees wilt. Lives are at risk. Sure, summers in the city are typically hot. But this seems a little more intense than most, and something similar happened just last year. Is this climate change? That's the question increasingly being asked by communities around the world as droughts, heatwaves and floods bring devastation to their door. For a long time, climate scientists had...
Leaked UN report warns of climate change risks
Posted by Age: Tom Arup on March 31st, 2014
Age: Rich and poor countries are still unprepared for many threats posed by climate change and extreme weather, a United Nations assessment of global warming will warn. Scientific authors and government representatives from around the world have spent the weekend negotiating the final text of the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at a meeting in Yokohama, Japan. Several leaked drafts of the report indicate the panel will warn that observed impacts of climate change are substantial....
Australia: ‘Fracking’ emissions monitoring to be tightened
Posted by Age: Tom Arup on April 17th, 2013
Age: The federal government has signalled that it will tighten monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions from coal seam gas ''fracking'' projects following a heated debate about how much the industry contributes to global warming.
In a discussion paper released on Tuesday, the government proposed that by 2015 companies would have to directly monitor ''fugitive'' methane emissions from coal seam gas production where fracking is used.
Fracking involves pumping fluid into rock layers to help extract gas....
Australian coal mining threatens CO2 target
Posted by Age: Tom Arup on January 23rd, 2013
Age: The forecast expansion of Australian coal mining and exports would be the world's second-largest contributor of new carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels if fully realised, research by Greenpeace International has found.
An analysis of the planet's 14 largest proposed, coal, oil and gas developments - to be released on Wednesday by Greenpeace - finds if Australian coal production expands as projected, the mining, production and burning of the extra resources would by 2020 result in 759 million...
Climate aid would cost nation $2bn
Posted by Age: Tom Arup on October 27th, 2011
Age: AUSTRALIA should contribute between $1.9 billion and $2.7 billion a year by 2020 to meet international commitments to help poor countries cope with climate change, new analysis has found.
Researchers at the Australian National University will release a report today calculating Australia's share of a worldwide goal to deliver $100 billion of public and private financing a year by 2020 to help developing nations with the impacts of climate change.
The researchers from the Centre for Climate Economics...
Australia: Rising sea a billion-dollar threat
Posted by Age: Tom Arup on December 15th, 2010
Age: MELBOURNE suburbs will be inundated regularly because of climate-change-driven sea-level rises, threatening billions of dollars in damage to homes and community infrastructure by the end of the century, new projections show.
In the first detailed attempt to study the impact of sea-level rises on low-lying coastal areas, the federal government has released high resolution maps showing which areas will be inundated across parts of the Victorian coast, in an effort to help local government planning....