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Australia: Turnbull tells leaders' debate he will meet tough climate change targets
2016-05-29 13:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Malcolm Turnbull conceded bipartisanship on climate change was desirable and committed to meet higher targets if set by the global community in the second leaders debate of the Australian election campaign. But the prime minister failed to outline how Australia would reach the 2030 emission reduction targets agreed to in Paris. Bill Shorten, the Labor leader, baited Turnbull, asking: Whatever happened to the old Malcolm Turnbull on climate change? You were so impressive when you were leading...
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Australia: Leaders tested on climate change and trust in first official debate
2016-05-29 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SBS: Climate change and the issue of trust dominated the first official debate of the election campaign, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition leader Bill Shorten facing off at the National Press Club in Canberra. Both leaders were pressed about their views on climate change, with the prime minister arguing he maintained the same position he held prior to taking over leadership of the Liberal party. I stand where we have always stood, recognising that we must take action as a global...
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Australia covered up UN climate change fears for Tasmania forests and Kakadu
2016-05-29 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A draft UN report on climate change which was scrubbed of all reference to Australia over fears it could deter visitors to the Great Barrier Reef, also outlined possible threats to the Tasmania wilderness and Kakadu. The draft report contained a chapter on the Great Barrier Reef, which described climate change as the biggest long-term threat to the [reef] today, and to its ecosystems services, biodiversity, heritage values and tourism economy. It concluded that without a comprehensive response...
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Australia, fearing fewer tourists, has chapter taken out climate report
2016-05-28 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Leading scientists in Australia and abroad have expressed concern that a new United Nations report about the impact of climate change on dozens of World Heritage sites is absent a chapter describing damage to the Great Barrier Reef, after the Australian government requested that the section be cut. I was amazed, the lead author of the report, Adam Markham, deputy director of climate and energy programs at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said by telephone. The Australian government requested...
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Uluru Image, Australia
2016-05-28 10:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Streaking from a sky as red as the earth, lightning strikes the famous dome-shaped, sandstone monolith Uluru, also known as Ayers Rock, in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia. I had heard a lot about how beautiful Uluru should look when it rains, writes Christoph Schaarschmidt, who captured this image. But I never believed that I would see it with my own eyes because the Red Centre of Australia is a very arid area.
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