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Australia needs YOU! Overcoming the elephants and lies

I confess I have been putting this off for a while.

I have been avoiding it.

But the time has come put things straight. To tell all.

To raise my voice with the chorus of others expressing their discontent.

I met with the Australian negotiators last week

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Posted on August 2, 2010 at 7:00pm —

Glimmers of gold on the dance floor

Bringing you blog # 2 from Rachel Coghlan of World Vision Australia, currently in Bonn for the UN Climate Negotiations.

I’m still holding my breath - the positive mood here in Bonn seems to have continued over the past week. What started as ti

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Posted on June 10, 2010 at 2:00pm —

Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving - Albert Einstein

Guest blog from Rachel Coghlan, Advocacy Campaign Leader - Climate Change for World Vision Australia who is on the ground in Bonn, Germany for the UN Climate Talks.

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Posted on June 3, 2010 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

Next round of climate negotiations begin TODAY - decisions on climate finance could help rebuild trust

Today, Monday 31 May, governments from around the world are resuming the climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany. This includes Ambassador Louise Hand and members of the Australian government negotiating team, many of whom you will be familiar with from our blogs in 2009!

A lot has been written about last December’s Copenhagen climate summit, frustration has been expressed at the lack o… Continue

Posted on May 31, 2010 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

Another meeting, but are we closer to a fair, ambitious and binding climate deal?

It went so fast you could have missed it. So fast that you may not have realised it actually happened. So fast it makes you wonder what is really was?

What was it then?

From the 9th till the 11th of April all nations came together to meet in Bonn to continue the

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Posted on April 21, 2010 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

We're baaaaack! But worried that Australia is lagging behind

Last year we were overwhelmed by the pledges you guys made to keep pressure on our government to act on climate change. Very excitingly, as 2010 is an election year here in Australia, we have real opportunities to turn our

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Posted on April 8, 2010 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

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?

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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

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I confess I have been putting this off for a while. I have been avoiding it. But the time has come put things straight. To tell all. To raise my voice with the chorus of others expressing their discontent. I met with the Australian negotiators las…

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Glimmers of gold on the dance floor

Bringing you blog # 2 from Rachel Coghlan of World Vision Australia, currently in Bonn for the UN Climate Negotiations. I’m still holding my breath - the positive mood here in Bonn seems to have continued over the past week. What started as tiptoei…

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The Rudd Government has dropped the ball on climate change policy in Aust - surely the least it can do now is commit the necessary international climate finance to help those countries least able to adapt. $2 billion is our fair share, so there's a…

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Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving - Albert Einstein

Guest blog from Rachel Coghlan, Advocacy Campaign Leader - Climate Change for World Vision Australia who is on the ground in Bonn, Germany for the UN Climate Talks. So here we find ourselves again in Bonn for the second round of climate change nego…

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Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving - Albert Einstein

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Next round of climate negotiations begin TODAY - decisions on climate finance could help rebuild trust

Today, Monday 31 May, governments from around the world are resuming the climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany. This includes Ambassador Louise Hand and members of the Australian government negotiating team, many of whom you will be familiar with fr…

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At 11:07am on August 24, 2010, Hasan Mehedi said…: Hi, I am Hasan Mehedi, Chief Executive of Humanitywatch working in the Southwest Coastal region of Bangladesh with the Forest Peoples and Indigenous communities for building climate resilience, establishment of their rights, and capacity building to eradicate extreme poverty. Some national and international organisations including Oxfam, Actionaid and Forest Peoples Programme are supporting us. Would you please allow me to be your friend and keeping in touch? Thank you

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At 7:33pm on May 18, 2010, Apeetha Arunagiri said…: Any posts for the recent conference in Cochabamba?

At 11:11am on April 21, 2010, Ulrike Kachel said…: Thanks for adding me as a friend! Great project! How can I support you? My main interest is in climate change and tourism and I am still looking for people who like to share their perceptions, thoughts, opinions. Please spread the word http://www.researchlounge.net

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.