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The Australian (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
ROSS Garnaut's confident pronouncements in the final report of his climate change review delivered something for everyone.The voices of apocalypse received a suitably stark picture of the dangers that may lie ahead. The Rudd Government was provided with a neat spectrum for calibrating Australia's medium-term actions to global developments. Even the former Howard government can take some comfort...
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A Free Man's Life (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
... G8, an influential report to the Australian government has warned. The report, from economist Ross Garnaut , says existing carbon goals, such as those in Britain's climate change bill, are based on out-of-date emissions figures, and are so ambitious that they could wreck attempts to agree a new global deal on global warming. Garnaut says that nations must accept a greater amount of...
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Infoshop Events (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Colleagues, Please join this seminar to be chaired by Sarah Cliffe on the latest policy discussions in Australia on the impact of climate change and next steps. The Garnaut Climate Change Review was an independent study conducted by Professor Ross Garnaut and commissioned by Australia's federal, state and territory Governments. The Review, completed on September 30 after extensive consultations,...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
Most IT managers and organizations in Australia are yet to wake up to the corporate requirements for reporting and improving greenhouse gas abatement, according to a Gartner analyst who labeled the Garnaut Climate Change Review a call to action for the nation's IT industry. "There are trivial levels of understanding at the moment; in business very few people have thought about the problem....
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Crikey Politics Etc RSS (Free subscription) | 10/21/2008
The neglect of comparing the conditions of the biosphere under the respective scenarios constitutes a major omission, writes Dr Andrew Glikson .
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China Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
... that he has indeed been ordered to step aside but, as I predicted, he's having none of it. John Garnaut of the Sydney Morning Herald has a nice interview with Du here on the issue. Money quote is Du recounting his response to the official who visited his home to order him to resign: "I said the government's official retirement age doesn't apply to non-government enterprises like us; if I...
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China Digital Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
John Garnaut writes in the Age: Wenzhou, the heartland of Chinese capitalism, is once again fighting for its survival. The city was famously forsaken by Maoist China but it stayed alive and later thrived by building one of the most entrepreneurial and dynamic marketplaces on the planet. Wenzhou’s manufacturers used to battle against the Communist Party’s efforts [...] Show on map
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Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Kevin Rudd’s global warming guru, Ross Garnaut, has a plan: Does Professor Garnaut have a ‘perfect world’ option? He does. He thinks that Australia…
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Public Opinion (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
... reduce greenhouse gas emissions on Australia. It was depressing. No mention was ever made of Ross Garnaut's report in which he argued that: The Australian Government should at an early date say that Australia was prepared to play its full proportionate part in an ambitious global mitigation effort which would require reductions of 25 per cent on 2000 levels and 90 per cent on - 25 per cent...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Carbon pollution levels are rising so fast that the world has no realistic chance of hitting ambitious climate targets set by Britain and the G8, an influential report to the Australian government has warned. The report, from economist Ross Garnaut , says existing carbon goals, such as those in Britain's climate change bill , are based on out-of-date emissions figures, and are so ambitious...
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
... the middle of the range of the expectations that were held by industry between the reports by Ross Garnaut, and then the departmental Green Paper. At $23 a tonne, industry is effectively prepared for the fallout that may ensue. The first Green Paper set a pricing point at $20 a tonne, which at the time Treasury estimated would have a one-off inflationary impact of 0.9 per cent. At just above...
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the Masalai blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
... the Review was based in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet. The final report of the Garnaut Review was delivered on 30 September 2008. Draft legislation will be released in December 2008, to become law in 2009.
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ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
Since 2000, the Garnaut report says, global carbon emissions from fossil fuel use have grown by 3% each year, as economies of developing countries including China have boomed. This compares to annual growth rates of 2% through the 1970s and 1980s, and just 1% in the 1990s.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/19/2008
The Australian government's climate change adviser Ross Garnaut said on Saturday that the government's proposed emissions trading scheme should go ahead as planned, despite the global financial crisis. The government wants the scheme to begin in 2010, but there have been calls for it to be delayed because of current economic conditions. Garnaut told Radio National's Saturday Extra program...
