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Wong craves sleep ahead of Copenhagen
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 17 hours ago
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Senator Wong has spent much of the past 10 days in the Senate chamber answering questions about Labor's carbon pollution reduction scheme. That followed five weeks of intense negotiations with the opposition over changes to the scheme. "I wouldn't mind...
Tags: Copenhagen, senator wong, Denmark, Environment, Air pollution, Diplomatic conferences, Post-Kyoto Protocol negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions, Carbon finance, Penny Wong, Carbon dioxide, Climate change in Australia, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
ETS vote looks to be dead in the water
Sydney :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility The Rudd Government's emissions trading legislation is unlikely to pass the upper house before today's deadline amid accusations of filibustering on the part of Opposition and crossbench senators. Debate has resumed on the legislation but the Senate's...
Tags: greens senator, Penny Wong, Greens, Senate, Australia, Sydney, Environment, Australian Senate, Nick Xenophon, Australian Greens, Christine Milne, Politics, Members of the Australian Senate, Rudd Government, Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, Filibuster
Aussies want to delay ETS: survey
Canberra :: Australia | 10 days ago
Credibility The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is using the figures to urge the government and the coalition to hold back on legislation presently before parliament. The two parties are negotiating to get an amended form of the government's carbon pollution...
Tags: Ian Macfarlane, Penny Wong, climate change, Senate, Malcolm Turnbull, Minchin, Liberal Party, Australia, Canberra, Climate change in Australia, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Environment, Politics, Shadow Cabinet of Australia, Wilson Tuckey, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Government of Australia, Politics of Australia, Coalition government, Carbon finance, Emissions trading, Members of the Australian Senate, Air pollution, Climate Change Act, Nick Minchin, Action on climate change, Turnbull, Rudd Government, Kevin Rudd, Westminster system, Australian Senate, Australian federal election, Prime Ministers of Australia
Wong coy on more carbon compensation
Auckland :: New Zealand | 12 days ago
Credibility Climate Change Minister Penny Wong will not say whether the coal and electricity industry are in line to get more compensation under the Government's emissions trading scheme (ETS). Senator Wong and Opposition emissions trading spokesman Ian Macfarlane...
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, Emissions trading, Penny Wong, Nick Minchin, Carbon finance, Members of the Australian Senate, Individual and political action on climate change, Environment, Politics, Australian Greens, Eric Abetz
Australian heatwave in carbon trade battle
Canberra :: Australia | 13 days ago
Credibility Australia's government demanded on Thursday that conservative rivals stop opposing carbon trade laws, citing a heatwave searing the country's biggest cities as evidence of Australia's vulnerability to climate change. With Australia on bushfire alert,...
Tags: climate change, South Australia, Australia, Canberra, Rudd, Emissions trading, Dennis Jensen, Malcolm Turnbull, Lindsay Tanner, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Kevin Rudd, Nick Minchin, Politics, Environment, Climate Change Act, Black Saturday bushfires, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Asia-Pacific Emissions Trading Forum, Action on climate change, Air pollution, Carbon finance, Penny Wong, Climate change in Australia
Govt, opposition downplay ETS deal
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 18 days ago
Credibility Labor has agreed to a keystone coalition demand that agriculture be excluded permanently from the carbon pollution reduction scheme, raising hopes that government legislation will pass through parliament before the Copenhagen climate summit in December....
Tags: climate change, Coalition, ETS, Penny Wong, Copenhagen, minister penny, change minister, sea level, Denmark, Carbon offset, Carbon credit, New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, Climate change in New Zealand, Carbon finance, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Emissions trading, Environment, Politics, Rudd, Kevin Rudd, Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, Australian federal election, Australian Greens, Climate change in Australia, Victorian state election campaign, Malcolm Turnbull, Bob Brown, Air pollution, Greenwashing, Sustainability, Rudd Government
Farmers win in ETS backdown by Labor
Sydney :: Australia | 19 days ago
Credibility Federal Government has made to the Opposition to gain its support. Government sources said it was prepared to exclude agriculture from the emissions trading scheme indefinitely and allow farmers to generate carbon credits as a sign of good faith to the...
Tags: climate change, Australia, sea level, rises sea, trading scheme, Sydney Airport, Penny Wong, emissions trading, federal government, Sydney, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Carbon credit, New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme, Climate change in New Zealand, Carbon finance, Climate change in Australia, Air pollution, Politics, Environment, Brendan Nelson, Family Guy, Members of the Australian House of Representatives, Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, Individual and political action on climate change, Scientific opinion on climate change, Global warming, Action on climate change, Tim Flannery, Current sea level rise, Effects of global warming
Dam block 'could cost state $3 billion'
Sydney :: Australia | 19 days ago
Credibility Queenslanders will pay at least $50 more for water each year because of the Federal Government's decision to reject the Traveston Crossing Dam, the State Government says. Queensland Resources Minister Stephen Robertson said the preliminary figure was...
Tags: Mr Robertson, desalination plant, Penny Wong, Australia, Sydney, Gold Coast Queensland, Kurnell Desalination Plant, Gold Coast desalination project, Water supply, Traveston Crossing Dam, Desalination, Environment, Politics
Turnbull confident of success on climate
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 1 month ago
Credibility Coalition MPs are converging on Canberra for a showdown on emissions trading...Some MPs are supportive of Mr Turnbull's intention to negotiate amendments to the government's emissions trading scheme (ETS) with an eye to passing it, while others oppose...
Tags: Mr Turnbull, Malcolm Turnbull, climate change, emissions trading, Coalition, trading scheme, قاچاق انسان, سازمان ملل, Parliament, Penny Wong
Rudd pats Wong on the back
Sydney :: Australia | 3 months ago
Credibility Wong has been congratulated by her boss for her handling of the emissions trading debate even though Rudd Government was defeated in the Senate last week. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd addressed his Caucus colleagues in Canberra today and lauded the work...
Tags: climate change, Kevin Rudd, emissions trade, Australian Industry Group, change minister, Penny Wong, prime minister, Mr Rudd, minister kevin
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