MORE than 60 community climate groups have written an open letter to Climate Change Minister Penny Wong demanding the federal government toughen its stance on greenhouse emissions.
The letter calls on the government to scrap its planned emissions trading scheme because its 5-15 per cent 2020 reduction target is “appallingly low”.
Five leading U.S. corporations joined with Ceres today to announce the launch of a new business coalition calling for strong U.S. climate and energy legislation in early 2009 to spur the clean energy economy and reduce global warming pollution
Samoa is to house the first ever climate change training facility in the Pacific, the Pacnews reported on Wednesday.
Environment ministers and officials from more than 30 countries held an informal meeting in the Polish capital this week to prepare for a major UN climate conference.
IT IS amazing the political will and financial resources rich nations can marshal when they are under threat. The result is hundreds of billions of dollars invested to prevent a meltdown of the US financial system and its impact on economies everywhere.
Financial crisis shows how politicians could act to stem tide of climate change.
Emergence of a ”green economy” is now clearly visible and efforts to tackle climate change could result in millions of ”green jobs” in India and other countries, says a UN sponsored report.
An international expert on climate change is calling for an urgent 10-fold increase in funding for clean energy.
RESEARCHERS, academics and business leaders have formed a new group in South Australia to protect and manage wildlife in the face of climate change.
Business leaders including directors at Tesco, Lloyds TSB and other top high street names have urged Gordon Brown to drop his slowly, slowly approach to tackling global warming and go for “transformational change”, saying the prime minister should not be held back by fears over the current financial crisis.
UNIONS are looking to change industrial laws to allow employees to strike over climate-change issues
A New Zealand company says it has has produced the first samples of green crude oil at a commercially competitive price.
The biodiesel, made from wild algae grown on human sewage, was a world first, Marlborough-based company Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation said.
RICH COUNTRIES must start basing their climate change policies on human rights principles and stop using economic excuses to “wriggle out of their responsibilities”, says international aid agency Oxfam in a new report published today
A new scheme to help the people most at risk from climate change to adapt and survive, not just cut emissions, is admirable but ultimately unconvincing
The Greens have backed Labour’s flagship emissions trading scheme but New Zealand First says it will not make a decision until tomorrow.
IF YOU worry a lot about high fuel prices, New Zealand’s economic prospects in a carbon-constrained world and related climate change issues, you would have taken heart from three days of conferences in Auckland this past week.
Motorists should pay more to drive cars – including more expensive car parks, and fees to use the roads – if New Zealand is to survive rising oil prices, a comprehensive new report says.
Greenpeace wants the Green Party to support the Government’s Emissions Trading scheme and its plea could influence the decision MPs will make on Tuesday.
Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick is being urged to allow seabed turbines to be constructed in the Kaipara Harbour to generate enough electricity to power up to 250,000 homes.
Negotiators meet in Ghana this week to resume work on a new climate change treaty and discuss ways to prod developing countries to join the fight against global warming.
New Zealand is required to take an active global leadership role on the environment but must start with its own backyard first, Prime Minister Helen Clark said today.
Climate Watch