The Rudd Government now officially has no practical policy to tackle the climate emergency (just like the Howard Government). This video is an excerpt from a recent ABC report. It speaks for itself. GetUp is asking people to vote on the following no confidence motion: “We the people have no confidence in Prime Minister Kevin [...]

The new mantra of the Rudd Government is that Australia will do “no more and no less” than the rest of the world on the climate crisis (even if that means we head into catastrophic, runaway climate change?). However it seems we can’t even reach that most mediocre of goals. A recent assessment by the [...]

Excellent short video that explores the flaws with the current cap and trade model for climate policy pursued by most governments, including the Australian one via the inaccurately named Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. And for an interesting critique of the video click here.

STOP PRESS: Update 2 December – The CPRS has been voted down in the Senate – However the Rudd Government will try to get it through again next year – so these criticisms stand. What else is there to say? About one year since Kevin Rudd announced his 5% target, it seems enough Liberals will [...]

An absolutely classic rant by Crikey‘s Bernard Keane. Welcome back to Parliament for the final time this year. Two more weeks of this stuff and then we’re finished for a summer that already feels like it’s been going a month. That’s assuming Anthony Albanese doesn’t keep his colleagues confined here at the end of next [...]

From newmatilda.com The Rudd Government’s Carbon Polluters Rewards Scheme (CPRS) is going to be voted on in the Senate this week. It is most likely to fail, as all other parties apart from the Labor Party will be voting against it (the Greens for good reasons, everyone else for bad reasons). Yarra Climate Action Now [...]

A poll released today found that 75% of Australians either agree or strongly agree that the Federal Government’s emissions trading scheme is not tough enough on the big polluters and needs to be strengthened in the Senate. Only 13% disagreed with 12% not knowing. It is certainly encouraging to see that the Australian public has [...]

Yesterday’s National Climate Emergency Rally saw thousands of Australians take to the streets to demand the Rudd Government recognise climate change for the emergency it is, take the Carbon Pollution Rewards Scheme back to the drawing board, and take much stronger action to create green jobs and a switch to 100% renewable energy by 2020. [...]

Faced with a much worse recession than we are facing here, the UK Labour Government has pledged to cut Britain’s emissions unconditionally by 34% on 1990 levels by 2020, with this to increase under an international deal. The UK Government aims to do this without importing international credits, which have been heavily criticised by scientists [...]

The letter below was sent to Kevin Rudd today and signed by 66 climate action groups, including Yarra Climate Action Now. RE: PROPOSED CHANGES TO AUSTRALIA’S TARGET AND CPRSDear Prime Minister, The 66 Climate Action Groups signing this letter are completely shocked by your decision yesterday to further weaken Australia’s position on climate change.We believe [...]