Australia’s new Prime Minister has appointed rock-singer-turned-parliamentarian, Peter Garrett, as Minister for the Environment, supported by Senator Penny Wong, as Minister for Climate Change. Senator Wong will lead Australia’s team negotiating ratification to the Kyoto Protocol and negotiating its successor. Senator Wong will also be responsible for the new Government’s ambition of [...]

Green-minded people who appreciate a bottle of wine will soon no longer have to worry so much about the environmental impact of those nasty “heavy energy-intensive” glass bottles.
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald has reported on the Tetra Pak invented tetraprisma packing technology, a multi-layer carton with a screw cap. They conserve the wine [...]

Australia has just voted by a landslide to change its Government, and the new Prime Minster, Kevin Rudd, has promised his first official action will be to sign the nation up to the Kyoto Treaty on climate change. Expect to see Australia once again providing global leadership on environmental issues, now that the morally-deplorable, [...]

According to an article in Reuters, senior executives in the carbon market industry are saying that there aren’t enough knowledgeable applicants for high paying roles in the carbon trading sector. Positions with salaries around £150,0000 are going unfilled due to the lack of people out there fit for the role:
“Armed with lucrative pay packages, recruiters [...]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that he is backing the proposals to increase targets for UK emissions reductions with full force. The new Climate Change Committee is expected to report on whether the current target of 60% reduction in emissions should be increased to 80% by 2050.
Today he gave his first speech on the environment, [...]