Browsing: Adaptation, science

• Boral hits back at ACF claims
  
• Government commissions review of Asia-Pacific Partnership projects
  
• WA releases draft policy for ambient air
  
• Synergy trials smart meters in Perth homes
  
• Ferguson appoints first directors to carbon capture institute
  
• UNEP: how ecosystems can help fight climate change

• Australia praised for stance on international transport emissions
  
• 'All our hopes rest on the U.S. and China', says Turnbull
  
• EPA Victoria and Global Sustainability issue new offsets guide
  
• Don't make RET a bargaining chip, implores Clean Energy Council
  
• Esperance port changes plea over lead debacle
  
• Australian scientists sound warning in new ice and climate change reports

• ABARE sets out CPRS costs for farmers
  
• Climate change our biggest threat, ACTU Congress told
  
• Woodside chief sticks to his guns on CPRS

• Senate trading bills inquiry to report on June 15
  
• Greens table container deposit bill
  
• U.S. Democrats cut deal on trading and renewables bill
  
• WWF calls for climate change action to protect Coral Triangle
  
• Climate change funding must go beyond aid payments, commission says

This isn't a global financial 'crisis', it's an ecological system pushed to its limits, prepare for a 'fast and furious' transformation 'in an economy near you' and treat coal like uranium, says Paul Gilding, founder and CEO of Ecos Corporation (video link).

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.

If Australia properly costed greenhouse gas emissions and health effects, then coal-fired electricity would be twice as expensive and the price of gas-fired electricity would rise almost 50%, according to a study launched Friday by Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner.

• 10 years jail for dodgy carbon deals
  
• Rudd Government to investigate climate risks for key infrastructure
  
• 'No need to lift packaging recycling target', consultant says
  
• Mandating more efficient TVs has major benefits, RIS concludes

Australia should go to this year's Copenhagen talks willing to commit to an 80% emissions cut by 2050, say Labor and Greens members of a parliamentary committee in a report issued today. But a dissenting Coalition report says there is 'conflicting science' on climate change and the recommendation is 'extreme'.

Nine months ahead of the politicians, scientists this week descended on Copenhagen to deliver the latest scientific findings on climate change. Their message – this is far worse than previously thought and the world must do far more than it is yet contemplating.