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Climate Trackers in 2010: Please tell us what YOU think

Dear Climate Trackers,

Apologies for our radio silence over the past few weeks, while we haven’t been active blogging on here, we have been very busy trying to figure out the big post Copenhagen question: what next?

… Continue

Posted on March 5, 2010 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Australian Government sets minimum climate goal - tell them it's not good enough

STOP PRESS – 4.50pm Wednesday 27 January: The Australian Government has just announced the targets it has submitted to the UN of between 5 and 25%. Even the highly conditional 25% target will not avoid dangerous climate change. We have just updated our lobby letter to Climate Change Minister Wong asking her to urgently reconsider the target submitted.… Continue

Posted on January 28, 2010 at 9:00am —

TAKE ACTION! Australia to submit emission reduction targets in less than 2 weeks

In less than 2 weeks the Australian government will lodge our national pollution reduction target under the ‘Copenhagen Accord’. Please take the time before January 31 to write, email, ring and pester Climate Change Minister Penny Wong to let her know you’re watching and that we won’t let the pressure down!!

We've made it super easy. You can simply send our letter through A Climate for Change. Or read o… Continue

Posted on January 20, 2010 at 9:07am — 2 Comments

Thank You! Your Support Has Been Tremendous

Dear Climate Friends,

You'll hear the outcome of Copenhagen spun in a thousand different ways, but here's our take: with only aspirational goals, the final “Copenhagen Accord” is largely an empty political statement that is unlikely to deliver any real justice to the developing world including our poorest neighbours in the Asia-Pacific. For this reason world leaders must urgently get back to the negotiating table in 2010.

History will not judge Copenhagen kindly but it is impossible to… Continue

Posted on December 22, 2009 at 11:46am — 3 Comments

Copenhagen is over: our future in crisis?

For two years we have been talking about Copenhagen.

Two long years, campaigning for a fair, binding and ambitious deal. A real deal that would protect our planet’s environment and see justice for all humanity that depends upon it. These two years come at the end of seventeen… Continue

Posted on December 20, 2009 at 4:09am — 7 Comments

As the clock in Copenhagen ticks down, I feel hopeful

** last guest post from Cara, past UN Climate Tracker

I feel hopeful.

I feel inspired.

Today Australians, yet again, did whatever they could in their power to remind our Prime Minister, to remind leaders of the world, exactly what is at stake in the climate negotiati… Continue

Posted on December 18, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

Shut out! But its not all bad.

I am currently writing to you from a warehouse somewhere outside the city of Copenhagen. Various NGOs have been scrambling to set up facilities to support continued engagement with the process.

I have now been officially shut out of the negotiations.

To cut a long… Continue

Posted on December 18, 2009 at 5:00am — 2 Comments

Copenhegn: why your voice matters, more than ever before (ideas of actions you can take)

** A guest post from our past UN Climate Tracker, Cara who is in Australia **

For the past 11 days the eyes of the world, mine included, have been on Copenhagen. Each morning as the sun slides up over my beach side suburb on Australia's east coast I’ve been scouring my inbox, the newspaper, tuning into radio (and of course reading the Adopt A Negotiator blogs) to get the latest on the overnight developments in Co… Continue

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 8:00am — 4 Comments

Crisis or procedure: Your future and the next 48 hours

I wish I knew what exactly is going on. This past day has been mayhem. As I write this all is not well.

Let me just have a moment of honesty with you all. I am tired, really tired. 12 long hard days have taken their toll on me and many others in this process. People are frustr… Continue

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 6:00am — 12 Comments

CREATE AND VOTE: Best "Talking Kev" Entry to be Shown to Climate Change Ambassador Louise Hand in Copenhagen

Our Prime Minister will arrive in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Summit later today. Just this morning the chair of the G77 and China , Lumumba Di-Aping, criticised Rudd for being all talk and no action.

We probably should introduce him to “Talking Kev.”

With Talking Kev you can create the speech you would like to hear our P… Continue

Posted on December 16, 2009 at 10:49am — 1 Comment

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Climate Trackers in 2010: Please tell us what YOU think

Dear Climate Trackers, Apologies for our radio silence over the past few weeks, while we haven’t been active blogging on here, we have been very busy trying to figure out the big post Copenhagen question: what next? To help us along the way we would…

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TAKE ACTION! Australia to submit emission reduction targets in less than 2 weeks

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All of you have done a fantastic job of keeping us informed and for being a voice for us in Copenhagen. You have taken part in a pivotal point in the history of human civilization. You should be proud of yourselves. Thank you. Ronnie Wright World C…

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At 11:09am on December 11, 2009, Sam Castro said…: Please ask Louise why the interest of big business and finite fossil fuel industries are put before the health and survival of this planet and all that live on it? If Copenhagen does not result in a global agreement will the Australian Government commit to real action and investment in sustainable technology and industry? If not will Louise and the Australian representatives please come and explain to my three children why the planet and their future means so little to our government and the leaders of the world?

At 9:15am on December 11, 2009, Dr Chris James said…: What I would like to know is why, when the governments - state and federal - are talking up climate change and the need to do something to reduce emissions, are they extending the La Trobe coal mine in Victoria and bypassing criticism on the basis of coal sequestration [clean coal] , which has its own energy and pollution problems. Coal is a dirty industry! End of story. And why are these governments underwriting the sinking of more gas and oil mines in some of the most beautiful areas of Australia. The companies involved have the worst environmental history on record, but the attitude is 'who cares'. Money speaks volumes. At risk are the Gippsland basin, the Otway basin and the West Australian coast. Shame on Australia for the deception.

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At 12:52pm on September 25, 2009, James Ray said…: Go these helmets! I wore them at Power Shift!

At 8:05pm on September 23, 2009, Caroline Nute said…: Once again I am urging people to participate in the climate actions for 350.org on the 24th October. The "Sea of People on the Opera House Steps" in Sydney needs 5000 people to be effective. Look at www.350.org/Australia to see what exciting activities and special guests, bands, will be happening - WEAR BLUE, BE THERE AT 2:00!

At 9:44pm on June 11, 2009, Brad Homewood said…: Cara's latest twitter about the Victorian Bush fires is a very pertinent one when we are talking about Climate change, the CSIRO has been warning for years that Climate change would increase the intensity and regularity of bush fires, and Kevin Rudd made special mention of it in Bali when he talked about taking "Strong and robust action" against Climate change.
On the 12th of February just after the fires, the national secretary of the United Firefighters Union of Australia, Peter Marshall, wrote an article in the Age on behalf of more than 13,000 firefighters, pleading with the Rudd and Brumby governments to take strong action consistent with the relevant science, because it his unions members who have to go into situations that the rest of us naturally flee.
Peter Marshall said that government policies seem destined to ensure a repeat of recent tragic events, Peter Marshall is not using guess work when he says this, he is relying on research by the CSIRO, Climate Institute, and the Bushfire Council, this research found that a "low global warming scenario" will see catastrophic fire events happen in Victoria every five to seven years, if this by itself is not motivation enough to take strong and robust action then I don't know what is.
Heaven forbid we stay on our current course of weak and lame measures, measures that will inevitably take us into a medium to high global warming scenario, to frightening to even contemplate.