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 [...]

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, [...]

Australia was the setting and location for On The Beach, Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film of the novel by Nevil Shute about a post-nuclear-war world. Ava Gardner famously said of Melbourne that she could not think of a better place to make a movie about the end of the world.
Well, the [...]

Australia will soon be building a giant 1000 Megawatt wind farm in the New South Wales province that will be capable of powering 400,000 homes. This comes as part of its plan to hit the target of “generating 15 per cent of its energy needs from “low polluting” sources by 2020″, according to The Register. [...]

Australian airlines are launching an emission offset scheme to allow all its clients to pay to offset their carbon footprints, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Travelers will be told the cost of offsetting their flight at time of booking and be given the chance to pay for it. It is the first country in [...]