The threat of climate change and the sale of Qantas have sat cheek-by-jowl on the business pages in recent weeks – but no one has spotted the link between the two. Former head of the AGO Experts Group on Emissions Trading Ian Dunlop explains the implications of climate change & peak oil for a debt-laden Qantas.
Articles tagged: climate change
Lessons from the golden state
Longtime climate campaigner Danny Kennedy is moving home to California to join the renewable energy boom. He describes the lessons Australia can learn from a state that isn't afraid to back winners in the clean energy generation industries.
Pushing the laggard nation – hard
Climate change is, without a doubt, the single biggest threat facing humanity. Yet the resistance of governments to tackling it is mind-boggling. The fumbling around by governments at all levels, the slowness with which they are even acknowledging climate change is happening, the refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the incredible imbalance between the billion-dollar fossil fuel subsidies and the … more
Climate change: Howard holds a monkey wrench
Australia’'s top ‘climate change skeptic’ is not just opting out of Kyoto, but sabotaging it, writes Barry Naughten
America is swapping sides in the climate war we aren’t fighting
As the US shapes up for a low-carbon diet, Australia is stuck in a carbon-bloated economy that gets fatter every day, writes Corin Millais
Power to the market
If nuclear power is the answer to climate change, says Paul Gilding, let it fend for itself without government subsidies. If we put a price on carbon emissions we can leave the market to determine the best mix of technologies to solve the climate challenge more
Climate Change: Government needs to face facts before it can face the future
Whatever your opinion of nuclear power generation, the announcement of the Switkowski-led nuclear inquiry may be a signal that John Howard finally realises he must take more decisive action on climate change.
Policy by degrees
In his speech introducing the ALP's new climate Blueprint, Kim Beazley made a claim against which he obviously wishes to be judged – that climate change policy is one of the biggest differences between the ALP and the Government. The new Blueprint, Protecting Australia From The Threat Of Climate Change, is much like Labor's policy for the last election, with important advances on a couple of fronts. But in aspirations and means it is still fairly close to Coalition policies. more
Climate Change Policy and Anxiety Reduction
Rob Paterson calls for concerned citizens to act within their circle of influence to bring about the deep cuts in carbon emissions needed to prevent runaway climate change. Regulation, co-operation, and education can make a watershed in climate change policy possible: rising public pressure will make it inevitable more