The seventeenth annual meeting of the council of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change begins today in Durban, South Africa, where the international community will continue negotiations to strengthen the global greenhouse gas mitigation regime. Here is analysis from several different media outlets and think-tanks on the prospects for the talks.
WATCH member David MacIlwain had the following letter published in the Border Mail, 26th July 2011… “When Julia Gillard declared six days before the last election that “there will be no carbon tax” our hearts sank. This had been the last chance for urgently needed action to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions. For years under Howard…
The following is a link to a public lecture at Melbourne University earlier this year given by John Gummer, Lord Deben, entitled Climate Change Action and Conservative Politics. Lord Deben’s argues that conservatives should back strong action to combat climate change because that is the most likely way of maintaining our society in its present…
WATCH member Karen Bowley wrote in a letter to the editor at the Border Mail (21st July 2011): “The carbon tax has not yet been passed and already everyone is blaming it for everything…”
Event: Beechworth Community Visions – ‘Long Conversations: Climate Knowledge Exchange’. Date: Tuesday 31st May, 2011. Location: The Gallery, Beechworth Secondary College. Local Sponsors: Beechworth Urban Landcare & Sustainability and Beechworth Secondary College. – WATCH member David MacIlwain attended this event and shares his thoughts in this video interview and in his written review below. –…
WATCH offers it’s qualified to support to the government’s Clean Energy Future proposal, on the basis that it provides the foundation for increasingly strong emissions reduction measures to the level mandated by the scientific evidence.
Wodonga & Albury Toward Climate Health (WATCH) 