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Professor Garnaut will release the long-awaited draft review of Climate Change this Friday July 4th and will attend public forums in capital cities next week. The public forums start in Perth on Monday July 7 and end in Brisbane on July 11. You can register to attend the forum at www.garnautreview.org.au. Garnaut describes the report as, Continue Reading →
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman, Mr Graeme Samuel, today launched a suite of ACCC guidance materials on carbon offsets claims.
“There is a growing trend of marketing claims about the ability to ‘neutralise’ the carbon footprint of, for example, cars, flights and households using carbon offsets,” he said.
“Consumer concerns about the veracity of claims on carbon offsets have led the ACCC to develop guidance for consumers and industry on the Trade Practices Act implications of carbon offset claims.”
The state government has responded by launching a $3 million campaign to get householders to shrink their carbon footprints.
Queensland Climate Change Minister Andrew McNamara today released the report from the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Climate Change showing the state’s average temperature could rise by five degrees celsius by 2070.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming probably will mean more illegal immigration and humanitarian disasters, undermining shaky governments and possibly expanding the terrorism threat against the U.S., intelligence agencies say.
“Logic suggests the conditions exacerbated (by climate change) would increase the pool of potential recruits for terrorism,” said Tom Fingar, deputy director of national intelligence for analysis.
Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central and Southeast Asia are most vulnerable to warming-related drought, flooding, extreme weather and hunger. The assessment warns of a global spillover from increased migration and water-related disputes, Fingar said in prepared remarks Wednesday to a joint hearing of a special House committee on global warming and a House Intelligence subcommittee.
One of the largest process control projects in the world undertaken by Alcoa World Alumina and Honeywell, QUASAR (Quality Automation Solutions in Alumina Refining), was awarded Engineers Australia‘s 2007 National Project Excellence Award in Automation, Control and Instrumentation at an awards ceremony in Melbourne this month.
The complex global project was Australian lead, with a project cost of more than A$400 million (over A$150 million just in Australia) and aimed to link seven Alcoa refineries in four different continents to one core process control system, QUASAR.
From The Stock Rournal A new government report released this week proves it is only thanks to bans on land clearing that Australia will meet its greenhouse gas emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol while the energy, transport and industrial sectors have recorded mammoth increases in their emissions since 1990. Minister for Climate Change, Penny Continue Reading →