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Australia: Direct Action unlikely meet emissions target, says Climate Change Authority
2014-12-22 05:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The governments climate advisory body has delivered a stark assessment of the Coalitions policies, stating it was unlikely that its Direct Action policy would meet Australias 5% emissions reduction target and calling for the renewable energy target (RET) to remain intact. The Climate Change Authority, which the Coalition unsuccessfully attempted to abolish, has conducted two statutory reviews for the government: one on the RET and one on the carbon farming initiative (CFI). The existing...
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Market Report, "Savory Snacks in Australia", published
2014-12-19 21:37:50| Agriculture - Topix.net
The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Australia savory snacks market.
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Do Australia, US 'compare favourably' on emissions targets?
2014-12-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: With increasing focus on international climate change cooperation in the run-up to the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference in Paris, ministers in the Abbott Government have been saying that Australia is doing its share to tackle global warming. Environment Minister Greg Hunt says Australia's emissions reduction efforts can be compared favourably to the United States. "If you use the same basis as the United States - 2005 to 2020 - the US is minus 17, we're minus 12 per cent," Environment...
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Climate change: global pressure will make Australia do more, says Cameron
2014-12-17 05:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Global pressure will force Australia to do more on climate change, Britains prime minister, David Cameron, has predicted. Cameron told a committee of British MPs in London he sensed the Australian government recognised it did not want to be the international back marker on the issue. Look, its a sovereign country. It has to make its own decisions. There has obviously been a very big debate in Australia about carbon taxes and prices and all the rest of it, Cameron said as he gave evidence...
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Parts of Pacific Ocean close to El Nino thresholds: Australia weather bureau
2014-12-16 05:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Surface temperatures of the equatorial Pacific Ocean have exceeded El Nino thresholds for several weeks and there is a greater than 70 percent chance of the weather pattern emerging, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said on Tuesday. The BOM had earlier projected at least a 70 percent chance of El Nino arriving by February 2015. The weather event occurs every four to 12 years and can trigger drought in some parts of the world while causing flooding in others. "Typically, after the ocean...
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