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Garnaut can’t see the forest for the trees

GreensBlog - July 4, 2008 - 4:37pm

This was published in Crikey this afternoon. My release from today is here.

Professor Garnaut’s much-awaited Draft Report is, in general, strong on the architecture but terribly weak on the big, over-riding issue – preventing runaway climate change. His policy prescriptions are completely out of step with his science.

When we were looking for a transformative vision to take Australia into the post-carbon world, we got an incrementalist approach with a slow start and even a step backwards on the 2050 target. Read more »

Latest greenhouse numbers released

GreensBlog - June 24, 2008 - 7:37pm

Penny Wong released the official greenhouse inventory for 2006 this morning, and you can read and study it in all its glory here. Read more »

Help me make a renewables feed-in law a reality

GreensBlog - June 20, 2008 - 4:48pm

The Senate Environment Committee is calling for submissions to an inquiry into my renewable energy feed-in Private Member’s Bill, which we negotiated and were successful in having referred earlier this week. Read more »

60% by 2050 not even in the ballpark..

GreensBlog - July 2, 2008 - 5:40pm

Andrew Macintosh from the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy and I released a paper on the implications of carbon-cycle feedbacks on climate policy today. The summary is below or the full paper can be downloaded here. It ain’t good news..

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