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CPRS Gets Worse As Polluters Trample Democracy
It is difficult to imagine the Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) getting much worse than it already was. It is an appalling piece of legislation that, if passed, will allow the ongoing expansion of Australia’s most polluting industries whilst giving the illusion that the Government is taking action on climate change. It passed through…
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The Human Voice Of Climate Change
TckTckTck is an unprecedented global alliance, representing hundreds of millions of people from all walks of life. It is made up of leading international, national and local organizations such as Greenpeace. Watch this inspiring video from the alliance, conveying the human voice of climate change impacts.
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Treading on burning embers
Here’s a few rather alarming figures for you. We are now less than 70 days from the crucial Copenhagen Climate Summit, where world leaders are due to meet and forge the successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol. Between now and then we have only 3 weeks of official negotiations remaining, most of which will take…
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Biggest Week For Climate Before Copenhagen
It could be the storyline for a movie. Four women from across the globe land in New York City just days ahead of world leaders arriving for join one of the most important climate change talks ahead of the UN summit in Copenhagen. Back home, these women experience the very real impacts of climate change.…
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How To Talk To Kids About Climate Change
I’ve been thinking a lot about kids and climate change lately. I’m not just wondering, as I often do, what they’ll think of our response to the crisis and what they’ll do when they are adults. I’ve actually been trying to work out how to explain climate change to them without scaring their little socks…
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Climate Politics At The Pacific Islands Forum
While Greenpeace are taking direct action to highlight the conflict between Australia’s ever expanding coal exports and the future of our Pacific neighbours, leaders from across the region are meeting in Cairns today for the Pacific Island Forum. In recent years the agenda has been dominated by issues of regional stability including the intervention in…
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Day Two: Toodle-oo Tuvalu?
Check out the live updates of the action as it unfolds.
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Climate Change For Dummies
CPRS, ETS, GHG – climate change can be a linguistic mess of scientific terms, percentages, economic modelling and policy mumbo-jumbo. Our new intern, Steph, has set out to demystify the emissions trading scheme. I have a confession. I’m certainly concerned about climate change but I don’t really know what it’s about. I know that temperatures…
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Voices From The Frontline
Our first “Voices from the Frontline” presentation in Sydney last Thursday was a success. People came from all over to hear two visiting community leaders from the Pacific share their experiences of climate change impacts in their region. But, don’t take my word for it. Sam Molko, our campaigner in Papua New Guinea, was also…
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Espy Log, Week 5: Vanuatu
The Esperanza is winding up its tour of the Pacific after visiting its last destination – Vanuatu. The last Greenpeace ship to visit the country was the first Rainbow Warrior in the mid-80s. Here’s an update from Emily, aboard the Esperanza. The Pacific Voices ship tour is nearly over – we have finished our last…