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Melbourne, Australia, aims to become carbon-neutral leader
2014-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: A digital image by Angelica Rojas Gracia prepared for the Visions and Pathways 200 project. It shows a bicycle highway built above train lines at North Melbourne station. As the conversation turns to the death of Melbourne's trees the city's influential head planner, Professor Rob Adams, chokes up. He takes a moment, then continues. "The evidence is so obvious," he declares, "You don't have to go to the scientists, you just have to look at the trees in Melbourne." Adams is talking about...
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Australia: Abbott uses North America trip antagonise US on policy
2014-06-14 01:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Northern Star: IT WAS time to draw a line in the tar sands. Blindsided by Barack Obama's renewed push for action on global warming, the conservative Prime Ministers of Canada and Australia are making a stand. The United States President's drive to spark international momentum ahead of next year's climate summit in Paris poses a direct threat to their preferred route to prosperity. Stephen Harper and Tony Abbott's shared ideology includes a desire for an emissions-packed future where Canada's dirty tar sands...
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Australia sees rise in greenwashing front groups
2014-06-13 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Australia is seeing a rise in groups that purport to champion environmental causes but are actually actively undermining them as front organizations for industrial interests, argues an op-ed published in The Ecologist. William F. Laurance, a scientist at James Cook University, highlights recent campaigns by several organizations with green-sounding names, including a push by the "Australian Environment Foundation" to delist World Heritage listing for 74,000 hectares of rainforests in the Tasmania...
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Wool Prices in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand (Weekly Report)
2014-06-13 16:39:34| EmergingTextiles.com
Wool prices fell this week in Australia, after the share of available fine wool reached a record high. Our weekly report delivers a comprehensive view of wool prices in Australia, with a long list of micron types in A$, US$ and euro terms. Historical charts are also available, such as downloadable historical data. A glimpse on the New Zealand and South African markets is provided.
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Australia: Fall in greenhouse gas emissions biggest in 24 years
2014-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Biggest drop in 24 years: Emissions are falling in the power sector - for now. Australia posted its biggest annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in 24 years of records in 2013 as the carbon tax helped drive a large drop in pollution from the electricity sector. The latest greenhouse gas inventory, released online without fanfare by the federal government, showed annual emissions excluding changes in land use were estimated at 538.4 million tonnes of carbon-dioxide equivalent in 2013,...
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