je.st
news
Tag: abbott
Australia: Julie Bishop wants to co-chair Green Climate Fund derided by Tony Abbott
2015-10-31 01:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Foreign minister Julie Bishop has launched a bid to co-chair the Green Climate Fund once dubbed by Tony Abbott as the Bob Brown bank. Abbott had resisted making a contribution until Bishop announced at the Lima Climate Summit last year Australia would provide funding of $200m over four years in a total pool of $10bn. Australia is represented on the funds board by a senior representative of the Department of Foreign Affairs. It is seen as critical to the success of this Decembers climate...
Tags: australia
green
fund
tony
Tony Abbott out of a job, and another leading climate-change skeptic may soon follow
2015-09-14 22:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was dramatically booted from office on Monday after a putsch within his ruling Liberal Party. A leadership vote led to the controversial Abbott being replaced by rival Malcolm Turnbull. The new premier will serve out the coalition government's remaining term before parliamentary elections are held next year. Turnbull and Abbott have clashed in the past, most conspicuously on the subject of climate change. Abbott is one of the Western world's leading climate-change...
Abbott Ousted But Australian Progressives Declare: Nothing Changed
2015-09-14 19:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Though progressives and opposition parties it changes very little on the issues that matter, a revolt within the conservative Liberal Party today has resulted in the ouster of Australia`s Prime Minister Tony Abbott as one of his top cabinet ministers, Malcolm Turnbull, took over leadership of the nation`s ruling coalition. After letting Abbott know he would challenge him directly for the PM seat just hours before, Turnbull ultimately claimed victory after winning 54-44 in a dramatic leadership...
Tags: changed
australian
declare
abbott
Abbott Completes Acquisition of Tendyne Holdings, Inc.
2015-09-08 12:31:10| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
ABBOTT PARK, Ill. - Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Tendyne Holdings, Inc., a private medical device company focused on developing minimally invasive mitral valve replacement therapies. Abbott acquired the equity of Tendyne that it did not already own for $225 million...
Tags: acquisition
holdings
completes
abbott
Tony Abbott is a climate change 'villain', says Canadian author Naomi Klein
2015-08-16 23:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott is a climate change villain who is repeating the slogans used by the coal industry in the US, according to bestselling author and social activist Naomi Klein. Related: Coal is the future, insists Tony Abbott as UN calls for action on climate change Klein, who is heading to Australia for a series of public events, said the level of inaction on climate change in Australia was only matched by her native Canada. In Canada I cant tell where the oil industry ends and the government...
Tags: author
change
canadian
tony
Sites : [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] next »