A newly-released NSW planning guideline explains how development should be assessed within a coastal risk area based on a likely 2100 sea level rise of 90cm and proposes measures including 'time-limited' development consents.
'A pox on both major parties', Rob Oakeshott told parliament earlier this year, while describing the Greens' carbon tax as 'a sensible option', Tony Windsor in 2008 introduced his own climate bill and Bob Katter says believing CO2 warms the earth is as crazy as insulating your house with chicken wire.
A Coalition Government would set voluntary energy efficiency targets for top energy users and would direct $400 million over four years to its proposed 'green army', Shadow Climate and Environment Minister Greg Hunt said today.
The Coalition's costings of its election promises reveal it would cut existing climate and environment programs by $3 billion over the next four years, largely offsetting $3.7 billion of new commitments.