The Department of Climate Change is becoming the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Friday.
“This move is designed to achieve stronger coordination and greater efficiency in the development …

The Australian Carbon Trust (ACT) – with a budget of $75.8 million  over its first five years – was announced by the Rudd government last May. Towards the end of this month, or in early April, the …

The Government is delaying by least a month the latest and much-expected vote on its proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS), which was meant to take place next week.
Rudd just last week told the press that …

Ivo de Boer, chief of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has said he will step down as of July 1 to pursue opportunities in the private sector and academia.
The announcement comes two …

The Mineral Council says in its pre-budget submission report that the proposed emissions trading scheme will cost the Australian economy “at least $120 billion to 2020″ — a figure at odds with the Treasury estimate of …

Fully switching to renewable energy by 2020 should be the focus of Australia’s climate change debate, according to Beyond Zero Emissions, a grassroots advocacy group hoping to garner support for dramatic cuts in greenhouse gas …

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to emissions trading, rejecting a prediction by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott that he was preparing to “quietly slither away” from the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
Speaking on …

Tree planting and soil carbon are at the heart of the Coalition’s proposed plan for curbing Australia’s emissions by 5 percent by 2020.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott would set up an Emissions Reduction Fund to pay farmers …

The European Union today reconfirmed its commitment to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent of 1990 level, with a conditional offer to increase the cut to 30 percent if other major emitters sign up …

The Greens have called on the government to back a two-year $20 billion interim carbon tax proposal to start cutting greenhouse gas emissions before a decision on the emissions trading scheme or any global agreement …