Paul Keating said political leadership is based in vision and courage. If eighteen years Albo was talking about the perils, and not just to our Pacific ‘family’, of climate change and that we should be doing something about it, it can’t be said he had no vision. That we are doing nothing about it, when the consequences of inaction are all too apparent, shows that he lacks the political courage.
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From: Maelor Himbury <M.Himbury@acfonline.org.au>
Date: 10 October 2024 at 8:43:02 AM GMT+11
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Subject: Daily Links Oct 10
Date: 10 October 2024 at 8:43:02 AM GMT+11
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Daily Links Oct 10
Post of the Day
A study of scenarios where the world temporarily exceeds 1.5C of warming raises concerns for effects that may not be reversible for decades — or longer.
On This Day
Ecological Observance
Arbor Day – Poland
Climate Change
Government criticised over list of potential countries for sourcing biomass, which also includes Afghanistan
Environmental activists are targeting vulnerable Republican incumbents in competitive districts, accusing them of weak climate policies ahead of the 2024 election.
Study reveals new, more efficient way of examining snow boundary
As the global push towards low-carbon societies accelerates, a new study reveals that justice concerns are increasingly surfacing in legal disputes over climate policies and projects.
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s new president, has promised a strong shift toward renewable energy and climate action, breaking away from her predecessor’s fossil fuel-centered policies.
Bill McKibben
Climate disasters risk pulling society apart. To survive we need solidarity – and only one ticket in the US election offers that
National
Letter to PM accuses handful of businesses and mining interests, mainly in WA, of trying to ‘undermine and derail’ environment law
The Coalition has raised concerns new car pollution caps could drive up the cost of family and tradie-friendly SUVs and utes ahead of the Prime Minister’s crunch meetings with Asian leaders.
Powering Australian homes with electric cars could be possible as part of a two-year research project also designed to convince motorists and governments to adopt the technology.
Australia’s growing fleet of big battery projects are rapidly shifting their main revenue source from frequency control to arbitrage. Here’s why.
Some describe the eastern koel as “demonic birds” for their constant mating calls. Others say the native cuckoos with beautiful plumage are “absolute magic”.
Richard Denniss
Eighteen years ago today Anthony Albanese issued a press release about the urgent need to not just act on climate change, but prepare for the humanitarian crisis of climate refugees fleeing low-lying Pacific island nations.
Jay Gordon
Gas has been part of Australia’s electricity mix for decades – so why is ramping it up now such a bad idea?
Ken Russell
Scientists overwhelmingly agree that climate change is threatening life on this planet and that the root cause is the burning of fossil fuels. But what are we doing about it? More importantly, what are our so-called Leaders doing to address the threat?
Victoria
In the midst of a spike in Victorian youth crime, researchers say young people with intellectual disabilities are going unsupported and overlooked in the criminal justice system.
More than 10,000 knives, daggers and swords have been seized in Victoria this year and now police are set for a major crackdown on rogue traders supplying youth gang members with weapons.
New South Wales
Plans to build a nearly 500MW wind farm in central-western New South Wales have been withdrawn, due to “changing economic and planning requirements.”
ACT
The Canberra Liberals have vowed to transition control of Boomanulla Oval back to Canberra’s Indigenous community and hand the Ngunnawal Bush Healing Farm to an Aboriginal community controlled organisation.
Queensland
David Crisafulli says that Queenslanders “need access to the areas that they’ve always had access to” in response to a Courier-Mail reader question on native title.
Abraham Leung
Queensland has joined Tasmania as the second Australian state or territory to offer a A$500 rebate for buyers of new e‑bikes. The pre-election announcement includes a smaller $200 rebate for e‑scooters.
South Australia
The state government’s decision to dredge sand 500 metres off West Beach to replenish that same shoreline has angered local community groups, as sand barges arrive on site.
A $27 million restoration of the world’s longest fence has reached a milestone, with work on the 2150-kilometre South Australian section passing the halfway mark.
From satellite cities to new parklands, the Greater Adelaide Regional Plan is set to transform our capital over the next 30 years.
Tasmania
The Tasmanian government was due to introduce a bill earlier this year to amend the legislation governing the return of Aboriginal land. Instead, it’s shelved it — and that’s received a mixed reaction.
A King Island couple who cleared native bush on their property, the habitat of two threatened bird species, received a substantial fine when convicted in the Launceston Magistrates court.
Environmentalists are furious after the proponent of a controversial helicopter tourism proposal at Lake Malbena applied to a Federal department to transfer the project from his company into his name just one day before a court ordered that the company be wound up
A Victorian-owned metal recycling business is facing eight charges in the Launceston Magistrates court in relation to its operations at Rocherlea.
Western Australia
An inlet on Australia’s southern coast which turned into a salt lake is being described as a “canary in the coalmine” of what could come with fast-declining rainfall.
Former WA Nationals leader Brendan Grylls has declared WA ‘lazy’ and too slow to develop new industry projects, warning Queensland is ahead in the race to make the most of the clean energy revolution.
Sustainability
Nineteen people died and vast swathes of land and waterways were damaged when BHP and local mining company Vale’s tailing dam collapsed in 2015. Now, First Nations and traditional Brazilian people are lobbying ahead of a major class action.
Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo says regulator Ofwat ‘complacent’ about water firms putting their shareholders before public
Although access to nature is a basic human right, people’s actual use of green spaces is subject to inequalities. A research team analyzed what conditions make it more likely that people are exposed to nature across generations: the availability of green spaces around where they live, work and shop, as well as nature relatedness and past natural experiences.
Because it doesn’t need expensive energy storage for times without sunshine, the technology could provide communities with drinking water at low costs
The latest report from the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) and Stats NZ, Our air 2024, reveals that overall air quality in New Zealand is improving, Environment Minister Penny Simmonds and Statistics Minister Andrew Bayly say.
Nature Conservation
Patrick Finnerty
Elephant numbers are surging in southern Africa, with fewer natural predators, reduced hunting pressure and feeding by farmers and tourist operators.
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