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Australia: Abbott government hints could reduce Australia's emissions target
2013-11-10 23:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Abbott government appears to be reconsidering its longstanding policy to reduce Australia's emissions by between 5% and 25% of 2000 levels by 2020 a crucial and internationally-scrutinised goal which had retained bipartisan support since 2009, throughout Australia's tumultuous political debate over climate policy. The prime minister, Tony Abbott, and the environment minister, Greg Hunt, have regularly repeated the Coalition's commitment to increasing Australia's emissions reduction target...
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Australia: Tony Abbott attempts to shift focus to carbon tax as new parliament opens
2013-11-10 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott will use the opening of the new 44th parliament to focus attention back on his planned repeal of Labor's carbon price after weeks of controversy over MPs perks, strained relations with Indonesia over asylum arrivals and regional surveillance, and displays of internal division over foreign investment and industry policy. The new parliament will sit in Canberra on Tuesday for the first time since the September election, and Abbott took to YouTube and social media on Sunday night with...
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Wendy Davis and Greg Abbott at their respective announcements for governor of Texas.
2013-11-04 19:07:41| Electronics - Topix.net
The big headline from the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll out today is this: The gap between Greg Abbott and Wendy Davis can be counted on a single hand.
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Australia: Climate Change Authority says Abbott must raise emissions target
2013-10-29 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's 5% emissions reduction target is "not a credible option' and must be increased, possibly to 15% or 25%, the independent Climate Change Authority has found in recommendations posing a huge challenge for the Coalition's Direct Action policy. The Coalition and Labor have promised to meet the same 2020 greenhouse gas reduction targets -- a minimum 5% and a maximum of 25% -- by 2020, under the same set of conditions about what action would need to be taken by the rest of the world for Australia...
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Tony Abbott: Australian bushfires not linked to climate change - video
2013-10-23 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australian prime minister Tony Abbott rubbishes a suggestion by the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, that there is a link between global warming and bushfires, as the fire danger-level in regions of New South Wales was raised on Wednesday amid worsening weather conditions
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