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Australia: How Bishop outflanked Abbott
2014-12-09 08:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: After the prime minister's office blocked Julie Bishop's proposal to travel to a global climate negotiation in Peru, she took the matter to a meeting of the full cabinet to get the decision reversed. When the deputy leader of the Liberal Party and Minister for Foreign Affairs put the case to the cabinet, no one raised any major objection, according to informed government sources. When Julie Bishop put the case to the cabinet, no one raised any objection. Ms Bishop arrives in Peru's capital,...
Abbott must shift with tide on climate change
2014-12-08 07:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Advertiser: Tony Abbott's office was counselled by some of the ministers in the Abbott cabinet that it would be unwise to try to keep climate change off the agenda for the G20 summit. If Australia tried to avoid the subject, it would become the dominant one, ministers advised. This warning was offered more than once, and over the course of about a year. Of course, that advice was exactly right. And, of course, the prime minister's office ignored it. The result was that the Abbott government was damaged...
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Australian PM Abbott says he's open idea of using nuclear energy
2014-11-30 18:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Straits Times: Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday opened the door to the use of nuclear energy as Australia faces growing pressure to bring down its greenhouse gas emissions. Australia is the world's third-ranking uranium producer behind Kazakhstan and Canada but does not use nuclear power, largely due to its abundance of low-cost coal and natural gas reserves, and community sentiment. But with demands growing for Canberra to announce its climate targets for beyond 2020 at global talks in France late next...
Australia: Red faces for Tony Abbott on Green Climate Fund
2014-11-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The Abbott government has been left embarrassed on another climate front with key ally Canada indicating that it will support a United Nations climate fund to assist poor nations to cope with global warming. Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whom Prime Minister Tony Abbott last month described as "a friend and almost a brother", has told Canadian media his country will contribute to the Green Climate Fund. He did not indicate how much Canada would give to the fund, which has an initial goal...
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Abbott tells G20 leaders he backs coal despite pleas on climate change
2014-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott has told a G20 leaders discussion on energy he was standing up for coal as the Queensland government prepares to unveil new infrastructure spending to help the development of Australias largest coal mine. Abbott opened the closed-door discussion on energy on Sunday morning by telling the world leaders that as the worlds largest producer of coal, Id like to stand up for coal, sources told Guardian Australia. Several leaders, including the French president, François...
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