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The Australian (Free subscription) | yesterday
MUCH to the chagrin of greenies, Penny Wong is delaying issuing Australia's emission reduction targets until after this month's Poznan meeting on climate change, and any targets in the forthcoming Australian white paper will not be definitive.Doubtless this policy drift is a recognition that the world has changed with the global downturn. The Climate Change Minister would also be aware...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
CLIMATE Change Minister Penny Wong is leading an Australian delegation scheduled to arrive in Poland today to join negotiations on a new global climate deal.
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Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Poznan looks like a rather pleasant city to visit. That’s handy, because there’s a fair chance that Penny Wong and the rest of the Australian delegation might have some time on their hands. As The Guardian notes in this handy Q&A, the negotiations are in somewhat of a holding pattern while George W. [...]
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
But Climate Change Minister Penny Wong now said it is important to postpone the announcement until after the final version of the Government's planned emissions trading scheme is released on December 15.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... gases that cause global warming and promised a 60-per-cent cut by 2050. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong confirmed that the year-old Labor government had broken its word. "It's the case that we said we would release the targets in December, and we had indicated before Poznan," she said. Earlier this year, Ross Garnaut, the government's top climate change adviser, recommended Canberra...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... below two degrees celsius and help the poorest people to cope." Federal Climate Change Minister Penny Wong will attend the meeting, which aims to set the groundwork for the international climate change meeting in Copenhagen next December.
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IOL (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
... seen by Reuters.The Poland meeting, to be attended by Australia's Climate Change Minister Penny Wong, will include officials from about 190 nations and aims to continue negotiations on a climate pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol from 2013.The talks are meant to conclude at the end of 2009 in the Danish capital Copenhagen and aim to bind the United States, China, India and other major...
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Blogocrats (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... (like myself) it means that I am beginning to feel less than a second-class citizen. Kudos to Penny Wong. joni
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Dangerous Intersection (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... also guarantee equality in tax, social security, health, aged care and employment. Labor senator Penny Wong, who is openly gay, said the laws would deliver the sort of equality before the law that same-sex couples have never experienced. ”They [the Bills] deliver on a very important election commitment on an important day for us,” she told the Senate. Uniting Care Australia’s national...
