Australia should stop criticising Europe over its emission trading scheme and instead take a lead from its example, head of the European Union delegation to Australia, Ambassador David Daly, said in a televised Press Club address …

The French government  has shelved its plan to introduce a tax on carbon emissions that have been a cornerstone of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s environmental policy. Had the plan been approved, France would have been the largest …

Victoria’s brown-coal fired power stations spewed nearly 10 percent more carbon emissions over the past decade, despite government programs designed to promote renewable energy.
Generation at the four major Latrobe Valley brown-coal fired plants has grown …

Three key U.S. Senators who have been working on a Senate equivalent of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill approved by the House of Representatives eight months ago appear to be getting nowhere.
The New York Times earlier …

The cost of slashing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent on 2000 levels by 2020 is about $1.8 billion, or as little as $185 per household, according to new  research by the non-profit outfit …

Australia is already experiencing climate change, with hotter springs, declining rainfall and sea level rises more than three times the global average in some areas, according to a report released today by the nation’s two …

Some of Australia’s top scientists have united in their call for environmental outcomes to be given priority in the imminent Murray-Darling river plan.
Thirty three of Australia’s top scientists signed a manifesto, released today, calling for measure based …

The CSIRO Staff Association has accused the Opposition of using Senate estimates to wage a political campaign to discredit the national science agency’s climate change research, the Canberra Times reported on Thursday.
”Our scientists are being …

Australia has signed a deal with Indonesia to support a Sumatra Forest Carbon Partnership program to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through a $30 million fund.
“This is part of the Indonesia-Australia Sumatra Forest …