A Coalition government would slash funding from or completely do away with some of Kevin Rudd’s key climate change initiatives.
Issuing its hit list of cost-cutting measures designed to bring the budget back into surplus, the …

Costa Rica’s Christina Figueres has been announced as the new head of the UN climate convention, replacing outgoing chief Yvo de Boer as he departs in coming weeks.
Daughter of former Costa Rican president Jose Figueres …

The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said the organisation needs to learn from recent criticisms and modernise its workings.
But despite making an error over Himalayan glacier melt in its landmark …

Sir Nicholas Stern said carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is essential.
Speaking at a members’ meeting of the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute in the US last week, Stern said that CCS “it isn’t …

The US Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled a final rule for regulating major emitters of greenhouse gases.
Under the Clean Air Act, starting July 2011, sources of at least 100,000 tonnes of emissions a year and any …

The U.S. Senate bill aimed at tackling emissions reductions by imposing new limits on carbon dioxide pollution from factories, utilities and vehicles was introduced Wednesday by Democratic Senator John Kerry and Independent Senator Joseph Lieberman.
The legislation …

The Australian government announced plans for a $652 million renewable energy fund, in a reversal of policy direction just weeks after ditching its proposed climate bill.
Speaking in his budget address, Treasurer Wayne Swan said that …

Some three-quarters of Australians support action to cut carbon emissions before a global agreement is reached, a new poll by Lowy Institute reveals.
However nearly a third of those surveyed do not want to pay for …

The government announced yesterday that it is providing another $40 million for the nation’s first carbon capture project, which is capturing emissions from the Yallorn coal-fired power station in Victoria and convert the gas into cement and …

The government has shelved its emissions trading scheme for at least three years, in the hopes that in that time it will garner enough domestic support to pass it through the Senate.
The Carbon Pollution Reduction …