Dark clouds gather over coal’s future
Already 'carbon capture and storage', badged as 'clean coal' technology, is stumbling.Environment - David Spratt - posted 11/9/2009

Climate change: enough science, now for the politics
Science can prove global climate change is happening, but it won't tell us what to do about it.Environment - Mike Hulme - posted 11/9/2009

Australian Government Media Releases

Policy and politics with climate change
Penny Wong - Minister for Climate Change and Water - Speech - 03-08-2009

Climate change danger for heritage icons
Peter Garrett - Minister for Environment, Heritage and The Arts Penny Wong - Minister for Climate Change and Water - Media Statement - 03-08-2009

Good politics, pointless policy
The Rudd Government seems to be concerned with symbolism over substance on the issue of tackling climate change.Feature - Richard Denniss - posted 3/6/2009

Climate's challenge to liberalism
Tolerance, freedom and democracy can only survive if core elements of the liberal tradition are transformed, writes David West

Solar policy trapped in the state shadowlands

All sides of politics agree that a German-style national feed-in tariff to encourage rooftop solar power makes sense. But the idea is going nowhere. PETER MARES explains why

Fed:Emissions debate kicking off

Fed:It's only just begun,emissions debate is kicking off

The reality of seeking to cut greenhouse pollution is only now starting to sink in.

The federal government wants to introduce emissions trading, which will put a price on carbon to try and force people to live greener lives, in two years' time.

The scheme could pose a major challenge for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his colleagues.