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

• Abbott: IPCC under 'very serious challenge'
  
• Nations weighing post-Copenhagen options: Norton Rose
  
• Top-20 Melbourne water user halves potable intake
  
• Energy ministers release progress report
  
• Obama: I want five to 10 CCS plants by 2016

A Victorian tribunal has rejected a proposal to sub-divide and build on a coastal site because of its vulnerability to future sea level rise, saying 'a line in the sand' must be drawn.

• Emissions rise 2%, despite economic downturn
  
• Xena, warrior princess, offers NZ PM ticket to Copenhagen
  
• EPA Victoria targets regional businesses

Plans for a protest at Victoria's coal-fired Hazelwood power station have prompted State shadow attorney-general Robert Clark to call for urgent action to protect Victoria's coal-fired generators from disruption.

• 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

• Victoria floats overhaul of waste bodies
  
• Garrett acts on insulation rorts claims
  
• UN's adaptation estimates fall far short, report says
  
• New mining handbooks on the way

• Royal Commission into fires likely to consider climate change
  
• Build 20,000 new homes to a seven-star standard, Senate told
  
• Caesar, Whitlam, Rudd – energy efficiency company warns of profiteering
  
• Federal energy efficiency scheme to offer workshops
  
• Think-tanks urge U.S.-China presidential climate summit

• Change trading rules to encourage oil mallee industry, says WA plan
  
• Policy brief warns of 'eye-opening' forecasts on malaria, dengue
  
• EPA Victoria issues draft industrial water re-use guidelines
  
• Voluntary Carbon Standard launches rules for land use projects

Victoria's planning tribunal has overturned a council decision to grant permits for six homes on coastal land partly because of the risk of climate change-induced rising sea levels.