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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/02/brisbane-airport-rejects-climate-change-billboard-as-too-political?CMP=soc_567
quote:Brisbane airport rejects climate change billboard as ‘too political’
Brisbane airport has rejected an advertising billboard depicting a farmer calling for action on climate change on the grounds that the issue is “too political”.
Environment and development groups had sought to place the billboard in the airport’s arrivals hall in time for the G20 leaders’ meeting in two weeks time.
Linked with a social media campaign, it originally said “Action on climate change is #onmyagenda, Dear G20 leaders please put it on yours” a reference to Australia’s resistance to having climate change on the G20 agenda at all.
The groups then agreed to remove the words “Dear G20 leaders” – leaving the billboard to read simply “Action on climate change is #onmyagenda, please put it on yours”.
But according to WWF chief executive Dermot O’Gorman, media buyer Ooh!media replied that the airport was still rejecting the billboard, which features South Australian farmer David Bruer, “because they consider climate change as being too political”.
Another billboard, with the same message, featuring firefighter Dean McNulty, will be erected on the route leaders are likely to take to the site of the G20 meeting.
“The #onmyagenda partners were surprised by the decision to reject the billboard. The reality is climate change is a global problem affecting economies, societies and environments all around the world, we can’t afford to sweep it under the carpet, we owe it to future generations to deal with it right here, right now,” O’Gorman said.
Bruer, who owns a vineyard in South Australia, told Guardian Australia he was “surprised more than anything else”.
“They say climate change is political. Actually it is a reality for farmers like me,” Bruer said. He lost $25,000 worth of grapes in one day last year when the temperature reached 46 degrees C.
Australia has reluctantly conceded that climate change can be included in a single brief paragraph of the G20 leaders’ communique after heavy lobbying by the US and European nations.
The government had resisted any discussion of climate at the Brisbane meeting on the grounds that the G20 is primarily an economic forum, but other nations argued leaders’ agreements at meetings like the G20 are crucial to build momentum towards a successful international deal at the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris next year.
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- Vladimir Poutine
- Aug 13, 2012
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http://junkee.com/surprise-america-and-china-sign-climate-agreement-leave-australia-in-the-dust/45072
Surprise! America And China Sign Climate Agreement, Leave Australia In The Dust
quote:Well, this whole G20 Summit is just shaping up like a dream for Tony Abbott and Co. Fresh from revelations that Australia has been the only nation fighting to keep climate change off the agenda, just today we saw the Labor Party walk away from negotiations over the Government’s plan to savagely cut the Renewable Energy Target, a move almost certainly designed specifically to embarrass Tony as all his important friends arrive.
And now this:
BREAKING: The US and China Just Announced a Huge Deal on Climate—and It's a Game Changer
The surprise agreement aims to double the pace of carbon pollution reduction in the United States.
Headline courtesy of Mother Jones.
So, let’s see. Now we have the world’s two largest economies, two largest carbon polluters and two most important allies and trading partners of Australia signing off on a deal designed to ensure they both accelerate the rate at which they cut back on their carbon emissions.
For America this will mean a 26-28% reduction by 2025, while the Chinese – still being able to play the developing nation card – have set in stone the year 2030 as the point at which their emissions will peak and begin to reduce. However this is linked with China’s declaration that they’re also committing to have 20% of their power generation provided by renewables by 2030, around 800-1000 gigawatts of power, or roughly the same amount as the entire electricity consumption of the USA. Both parties hope that by taking such decisive action they’ll push the rest of the world to do the same at the climate change talks in Paris next year.
As you might expect, Bill Shorten had a statement out so fast I’m vaguely suspicious he must have been standing inside the room when the agreement was signed.
"Tony Abbott fought and fought to stop climate change being discussed at this weekend's G20. If Tony Abbott still refuses to discuss the need to take action on climate change at the G20, he will embarrass Australia in front of the rest of the world.
"Tony Abbott's flat-earth views are out of touch with Australians and out of touch with world leaders. Climate change is not just an environmental issue. It is a security issue and it is absolutely an economic issue. Tony Abbott's failure to recognise this represents a failure of leadership."
Quite.
Still no word as yet from Team Abbott, so in the meantime let’s just revisit some of their better quotes from the last month or so, shall we?
TONY ABBOTT: “Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world. This is a sign of hope and confidence in the future of the coal industry – it’s a great industry… Coal is essential for the prosperity of the world.”
GREG HUNT: “I think any of us who are trying to predict what happens, you know, almost a century away in terms of energy use might be getting a little bit ahead of ourselves.”
Try telling that to Xi and Barack, Hunty boy.
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- Vladimir Poutine
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http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...g-1227123846130
Russian media releases satellite image claiming to show MH17 shot down by Ukrainian fighter jet
quote:HOURS before the G20 summit is due to start in Brisbane, Russia’s official media has released satellite images which it claims shows the Malaysia Airline’s flight MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian fighter jet, not a surface-to-air missile.
The flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was brought down over the war zone in eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 people on board including 38 Australian residents and citizens.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been under increasing pressure to apologise for the tragedy after initial investigations indicated it was a Russian made BUK missile system used by pro-Moscow rebels that was responsible.
In what only could be described as an extraordinary coincidence after Mr Putin was confronted by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in Beijing this week, Russia’s state broadcaster aired the images supplied by unnamed sources.
The presenter said they showed how a Mig-29 fighter plane destroyed the Boeing 777 passenger plane.
A Dutch Safety Board preliminary report on the MH17 disaster found the aircraft crashed after being punctured by “high energy objects ... that originated from outside the fuselage”.
The report made no finding on whether the “high energy objects” originated from a surface-to-air missile or some other weapon.
Mr Abbott’s hard line on the suspected Russian involvement in the tragedy has not gone down well with grieving families.
Paul Guard, who lost his parents Roger and Jill Guard when the aircraft was brought down, told the ABC yesterday he would prefer the Prime Minister worked with Mr Putin in order to ensure complete transparency in the investigation process.
Member countries of the joint investigation team announced this week an extension to the official investigation for another nine months until August 15.
Investigators have had difficulty accessing the crash site because of ongoing fighting between the Ukrainians and pro-Russian separatists, but a Dutch newspaper reports that a new deal has been agreed on, allowing access.
The Dutch investigators will be allowed to return to the region controlled by the separatists under the agreement reached in negotiations overseen by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant reported late on Friday, quoting the Justice Ministry in the Hague.
Many pieces of MH17 wreckage lie in the area controlled by the separatists, which has made their recovery especially difficult. Earlier this month experts were still recovering human remains and pieces of the jet.
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