Browsing: <a href="/tag/adaptation-science">Adaptation, science</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/ccs">CCS</a>

• Victoria introduces bill to phase out renewables scheme
  
• We want federal CCS cash for these projects, Queensland says
  
• How to fix a planet – Royal Society examines geoengineering options

Seven Australian climate change scientists have written to owners of the nation's coal-fired power stations calling for no new coal plants unless they have 'zero emissions' and for an urgent program to replace existing coal-fired plants.

As the release of a much-anticipated Treasury analysis of the economic effects of various emissions trajectories draws tantalisingly close, Treasurer Wayne Swan and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on Friday released details of the underpinning assumptions.

Professor Ross Garnaut this morning handed to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd an all-embracing set of policy proposals to combat climate change. Garnaut warned that a failure by this generation to deal with climate change 'would haunt humanity until the end of time'.

Treasury tells Rudd to put Australia 'on a clean energy footing' * Wong says we will set an interim target, as UN climate change chief urges major emitters to deploy climate change 'Marshall plan' * Victoria's Hazelwood power plant a cleaner fossil fuels case study as global energy agency suggests replacing or upgrading more than a third of the world's coal-fired capacity



* NSW environment group weighs in against NSW power industry privatisation * Program offers industry a 'low-risk' chance to test sustainability, Garrett says * 6-star green building flurry continues * Wood waste power plant proposed for WA