Climate scientists write complex research papers, analysing climate change thoroughly and clinically. They understand the numbers, the facts and the figures. But they’re not robots – how do they feel about climate change?
The Green Electricity Guide has been developed to help inform Australians about which electricity retailers really are as ‘green’ as they say they are. By choosing a retailer that invests its money in renewables rather than coal and gas, consumers …
Refrigeration and air conditioning are responsible for a significant share of global greenhouse gas emissions. The Green Cooling Initiative aims to provide useful information, give access to knowledge and bring people together working on the same goal: Promoting green cooling worldwide.
The Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Australian Birds is the first climate change adaptation plan produced for a national faunal group anywhere in the world. It outlines the nature of threats related to climate change for the Australian birds most …
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In his new book Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change, Mark Diesendorf argues that we now have the technologies needed to transform our fossil-fuel based energy systems into an ecologically sustainable one, based on the efficient use of renewable energy, …
Householder’s Options to Protect the Environment Inc. (HOPE) has published the “Low Carbon Living starts at home” and “Householders Guide to Sustainable Living” booklets which are available for free download.
A new Climate Council report investigates the future of Australia’s electricity sector. Internationally, the energy sector accounts for the largest proportion of greenhouse gas emissions, but Australia’s electricity is largely generated by ageing, inefficient coal-fired power plants leaving the nation …
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Sunulator is a new free tool from the Alternative Technology Association (ATA) which estimates the economic feasibility of a solar system.
The C20 (Civil Society) Summit in the lead-up to G20 addressed a range of issues including climate change and renewable energy investment, food and resource security, and infrastructure. You can read the final C20 Summit Communique.
The potential for climate change to drive changes in the severity and likelihood of extreme weather events could have implications for the accuracy of natural catastrophe models. The report Catastrophe Modelling and Climate Change from global insurer Lloyd’s examines whether …