By 2050 Australia’s population is set to hit 35 million, the number of people displaced by climate change globally is predicted to reach 200 million. How will Australia cope? Lauren Day reports.
The doors have opened to what Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) says is the country’s first zero emissions house available for sale on the mass market.
Environmentalists want to see a quick closure of Australia’s dirtiest power station by 2012. But workers in the area fear that Gippsland could collapse once more if the government turns its back on them.
Australia has committed to reducing carbon emissions, but traffic is congesting our major cities and pumping out greenhouse gases. Are electric cars the answer?Britta Jorgensen reports.
A conference held in Sydney on Sunday has called for unionists and environmentalists to join forces in order to combat climate change writes Dave Drayton. Image: SEARCH Foundation