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Thoughts & Ideas: Current ItemsCarpooling is popping up everywhere - 25 August 2008 posted by Tarek ChamieCarpooling websites have been recently popping up encouraging people to share a ride, reduce their fuel bills, unclog congested roads, improve our air quality, reduce greenhouse gases and, so they argue, improve the social fabric of our communities. READ MORE » Interim Garnaut Report Released! - 23 February 2008 posted by Asren Pugh Professor Garnaut has released his interim report on Australia's response to Climate Change. He has stated that Australia will need to cut CO2-equivalent emissions by between 70% and 90% by 2050, a much higher target than the 60% set by the Federal Labor Government and the NSW State Government. He is calling for Australia to take a leading role on the world stage in combating Climate Change. Get the Interim Garnaut Report here! READ MORE » Energy Motion for State Conference, Climate Change Action Plan - 15 February 2008 posted by Asren Pugh Congratulations on all those who worked so hard to get Labor elected in November. It was a great result and we now have an opportunity for Australia to take an international leadership role in combating Climate Change. The new government has moved quickly with its very first act being to finally sign the Kyoto Protocol. This is an exciting time and LEAN has an opportunity to influence environment policy of the new Labor Government as well as hit the ground running in 2008 for some big issues ahead in NSW. READ MORE » World's Leading Scientists Issue Urgent Declaration - 05 December 2007 posted by Sean Kidney WASHINGTON - For the first time, more than 200 of the world's leading climate scientists, losing their patience, urged government leaders to take radical action to slow global warming because "there is no time to lose." List of Signatory Scientists: READ MORE » British Prime Minister Gordon Brown makes ambitious climate speech - 02 December 2007 posted by Sean Kidney In his first major speech on the environment, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown last week suggested that Britain could aim to cut its greenhouse-gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. Report in The Guardian READ MORE » Now to get to work on climate action ... - 26 November 2007 posted by Sean Kidney In the afterglow of a substantial election victory, Kevin Rudd has signalled he will move quickly on some key climate action issues, such as ratifying Kyoto. He has already said he'll be in Bali next week for the Kyoto meeting ... READ MORE » Hillary Clinton unveils far-reaching plan for 80% emission cuts by 2050 - 20 November 2007 posted by Sean Kidney Hillary showed us this week what a progressive climate change policy needs to look like. The full text of Hillary Clinton's climate and energy plan READ MORE » Germany Aims for 45% of Electricity From Renewable Resources by 2030 - 10 July 2007 posted by Sean Kidney If they can do it so can we! Yahoo News story July 5, 2007 READ MORE » LEAN Submission to Owen Inquiry into a new NSW Coal-fired power station - 09 July 2007 posted by Sean Kidney LEAN and 52 ALP Branches in NSW have passed the NSW Clean Energy TREND Resolution on Reinforcing NSW Leadership on Climate Change. That resolution forms the basis of LEAN's submission to the NSW Government's Owen Inquiry. READ MORE » EU Green Paper released today about future impacts of climate change on Europe - 04 July 2007 posted by Sean Kidney The European Commission's new Green Paper is all about the massive changes facing Europe as the globe warms up, and what has to be done to adapt to them. They are taking it a lot more seriously than Australian Governments. Green paper: "Adaptation to climate change in Europe - options for EU action" READ MORE » Resolution from Darlington NSW Branch on global warming - 04 July 2007 posted by Barrie McMahon Global warming is now accepted as being caused by the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil-fuel burning. There is also consensus that such warming, if unchecked, if not already, will have dire consequences. There is a debate over the economic consequences of adopting the necessary emission reduction targets. While this debate is being resolved, we should promptly undertake actions which will not disrupt the economy but which will reduce our energy-from-fossil-fuel consumption. READ MORE » Useful US paper explaining why investment in coal-fire power is mad - 30 June 2007 posted by Sean Kidney Carbon Risk, Coal, and Higher Electricity Prices - why coal-generated electricity will cost more than energy companies claim. READ MORE » Maxine McKew introduces peak oil at Smart 2007 - 29 June 2007 posted by Dave Lankshear Peak oil expert Roger Bezdek opened Day 2 of the Smart Conference in Sydney on Thursday last week, introduced by Maxine McKew. 50 minute Quicktime movie here READ MORE » New report by Jim Hansen & Co paints dire future under climate change - 27 June 2007 posted by Sean Kidney A New Study Led by Jim Hansen Makes Unambiguous Warning that the Earth is in 'Imminent Peril'. If ever we needed fresh reason to fight plans for new base coal-fired power stations, this is it! Got to the source document: "Climate Change and Trace Gases" READ MORE » A New Nuclear Policy for Labor? (Updated) - 09 June 2007 posted by Ken McLeod Comment by Ken McLeod: "Labor's Nuclear Policy is rapidly being overtaken by new technologies, and will soon be as sensible as the 19th Century English law that required a little man with a red flag to walk in front of automobiles and charabancs. 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