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National affairs
Climate change negotiations: unravelling or shifting gear?
Stephen Howes
26 October 2010
Climate change efforts are becoming more decentralised, writes
Stephen Howes
, so we’ll need to make the most of a bottom-up approach
Essays & reportage
Financing the forests
Stephen Minas
20 October 2010
Indonesia is at the sharp end of the debate about how to bring forests into a carbon trading system, writes
Stephen Minas
Books & arts
Retreat to the backyard
Peter Spearritt
7 October 2010
Peter Spearritt
looks at how traffic engineers and apartment developers are degrading Australian cities
International
Europe’s radical carbon choice
Michael Jacobs
6 October 2010
European governments are considering a plan to cut carbon emissions irrespective of what other countries decide, writes
Michael Jacobs
National affairs
The real cost of carbon pricing
John Daley & Tristan Edis
23 September 2010
Although a price on carbon will mean real changes to parts of the Australian economy, write
John Daley
and
Tristan Edis
, its impact on most industries will be small
International
Arctic oil: the battle begins
Michael Jacobs
2 September 2010
In every generation one issue comes to symbolise the wider battle to protect the natural world. This could be it, writes
Michael Jacobs
International
Is it all over for climate change policy in the United States?
Michael Jacobs
29 July 2010
Not quite, writes
Michael Jacobs
. But the battle will be a tough one
International
Cold comfort
Ian Lowe
17 December 2009
Ian Lowe
catches some glimpses of the Copenhagen conference from outside in the queue
Essays & reportage
Trouble in the city
Peter Spearritt
22 October 2009
If you want to find out what’s happening in Australia’s cities today, don’t go to the glossy planning documents, writes
Peter Spearritt
National affairs
Another day in the red
Brett Evans
24 September 2009
A dusty day in Sydney wouldn’t have surprised Enrico Fermi, writes
Brett Evans
National affairs
Kicking the petrol habit
Rob Chalmers
25 August 2009
Massive public assistance is being given to a dying technology, writes
Rob Chalmers
, just when electric cars are showing enormous promise
Essays & reportage
Show day
Ellie Rennie
20 August 2009
Angela Pamela and her political prizewinners took the Alice Springs show by storm, reports
Ellie Rennie
National affairs
One fish, two fish, no fish
Quentin Grafton
18 August 2009
Good management can turn around fish stocks when fishers are treated as part of the solution, writes
Quentin Grafton
Essays & reportage
On relations with trees
Melissa Sweet
24 June 2009
Melissa Sweet
returns to a life in the Australian bush
Essays & reportage
Troubled waters
Robert Milliken
25 May 2009
Queensland is in flood, but none of the water is likely to make the long journey down the Darling and the Murray to South Australia, reports
Robert Milliken
in Murray Bridge
Podcasts
Black Saturday’s prehistory
Peter Clarke
13 March 2009
Understanding the inevitability of devastating fires is essential for local communities and policy makers, historian
Tom Griffiths
tells
Peter Clarke
National affairs
Broadening Australia’s response to climate change
Iain MacGill & Regina Betz
4 March 2009
A diverse set of measures is needed if we are to minimise the risk of failing to deal effectively with climate change, write
Iain MacGill and Regina Betz
National affairs
Early warning
Viv Waller
3 March 2009
We need early detection and rapid aggressive response to stop bushfires from raging out of control, argues
Viv Waller
National affairs
An idea whose time never came
Richard Denniss
25 February 2009
The federal government’s emissions trading scheme is in trouble.
Richard Denniss
looks at the alternative
Essays & reportage
We have still not lived long enough
Tom Griffiths
16 February 2009
Testimony from the 1939 and 2009 fires reveals what we haven’t learnt from history
National affairs
Making life easier for emitters
Richard Denniss
2 February 2009
It seems paradoxical, but the Rudd government’s emissions trading scheme will stop individuals and governments from acting to reduce emissions, writes
Richard Denniss
National affairs
Malcolm in the middle
Rob Chalmers
11 December 2008
With Malcolm Turnbull caught between his own party’s climate change sceptics and a popular government, don’t be surprised if Australia goes to the polls next year,…
Essays & reportage
Solar policy trapped in the state shadowlands
Peter Mares
27 November 2008
All sides of politics agree that a German-style national feed-in tariff to encourage rooftop solar power makes sense. But Christine Milne’s bill to create the tariff is…
National affairs
Brainstorm in Dubai
Ian Lowe
12 November 2008
The World Economic Forum’s latest summit showed that Australia can both learn from and teach the rest of the world, writes
Ian Lowe
from Dubai
Correspondents
A working model for a new president
Fred Pearce
6 November 2008
California is leading the way on climate change, reports
Fred Pearce
, with an Australian company likely to make a major contribution
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