World Bank poverty and climate change experts are combining forces with researchers to develop policy and recommendations that aim to help in the fight against poverty-a fight that ultimately requires very urgent action on both climate change and poverty. In February this year World Bank...
Recent pronouncements by the Abbott Government that coal is good for Australia are increasingly coming under scrutiny, and if recently published findings are anything to go by, this scrutiny should continue. According to the International Edition of the Green Innovation Index, Australia had the highest...
According to Damian Ryan, Head of International Policy at The Climate Group there is no better time to apply a spotlight to health and climate change. Higher temperatures will either create a range of illnesses, disease or injuries or exacerbate them, at a time when...
The recently elected Labor Government in Queensland has committed to generating half of its electricity requirement using renewable sources by 2030, and to ensuring that 1 million Queensland homes have rooftop solar systems by 2020 (currently 400,000 homes have these systems).Energy Minister Mark Bailey confirmed...
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Power Plan limits the carbon emissions from the existing plants in each state, based on each state’s ability to move away from coal to natural gas for generation, to increase the efficiency of the remaining coal fired...
In the past few weeks the costs associated with poor air quality in India and Europe have been published in terms of health effects, lost productivity and ultimately, mortality. In a previous blog I discussed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s response to Delhi being pronounced...
Graphene is one of the few commodities that has been exciting explorers and investors alike in a time when others are floundering in Australia and internationally, and it could well prove to be one of the greenest ever known. It is the thinnest material on...
