
On Monday hundreds of people came together at federal parliament to protest what is shaping up to be a shocker of an ETS, expected to be passed into law tomorrow...

It's very telling that, when the ACF and Union Climate Connectors came to Canberra last week, a number of the grassroots campaigners they brought with them were shocked to discover that they were being asked to campaign for the CPRS, not against it...

The Prime Minister's $7 billion offer to the Coalition is a black day for the environment, the Australian Greens said today. "How did the Prime Minister keep a straight face when dressing up the Coalition's polluters' policies in green rhetoric?" Australian Greens Leader, Senator Bob Brown asked...

The Greens today released legal advice from barristers Brian Walters SC (Melbourne) and Matthew Baird (Sydney) confirming that any attempt to strengthen pollution reduction targets after the emissions trading scheme (ETS) legislation is passed could trigger a constitutional requirement for more...

Heather Ridout and Penny Wong have this morning demonstrated the wilful ignorance, deliberate misrepresentation and deep-seated hypocrisy that characterises the current climate change debate in Australia...

The Rudd Government's mismanagement of Senate business will result in the bill to finally give visual artists royalties for resale of their work missing out on a full Senate debate...

The Capital Wind Farm at Bungendore opened by Prime Minister Rudd today may be amongst the last significant renewable energy developments in Australia if the Government fails to fix the flawed renewable energy target legislation...

The Government and Opposition today voted against a Greens motion calling on the Government to plan for peak oil in the light of the most recent global figures showing that a shift from oil power to coal power is increasing global greenhouse emissions...

Greens Deputy Leader, Christine Milne has been joined by members of the scientific and Tasmanian community in calling for the Tasmanian devil to be upgraded from endangered to critically endangered...

Weak targets to guarantee coastline destruction Australian Greens Deputy Leader Christine Milne says that the government's new sea level rise report, which warns that up to 250,000 homes around Australia are at risk of inundation due to climate change by the turn of the century, highlights the...

We Greens have been working hard to convince the Rudd government to green up its failure of an emissions trading scheme...

The media storm over climate sceptics in the Coalition, triggered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Lowy Institute speech last Friday and the ABC's Four Corners program on Monday night, is bringing much needed rain for a government whose climate credentials were looking very dry...

Australian Greens Deputy Leader, Senator Christine Milne, said: "Unless and until Mr Rudd is willing to step up to the plate and commit to the safe climate target of 40% emissions cuts, his presence at Copenhagen will only serve to hold back progress towards a meaningful global agreement...

Greens Senators Bob Brown and Christine Milne have met with Climate Change Minister Penny Wong to seek a way forward on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme...








