Industry

Mining, the aluminium industry and indigenous peoples: enhancing corporate respect for indigenous peoples’ rights

The report, Mining, the Aluminium Industry and Indigenous Peoples: Enhancing Corporate Respect for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, provides a global overview of the challenges facing indigenous peoples, and presents five case studies from Australia, Cambodia, Guinea, India and Suriname.

Publication Date: 
16/11/2015
Cathal M Doyle, Helen Tugendhat, Robeliza Halip
Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP)
Tags:
Aluminium Industry, Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Bauxite, Tribals, Australia, India, Suriname, Guinea, Cambodia, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Land Acquisition, Human Rights
Environment

Conservation group challenges approval of Carmichael coalmine as ‘illegal’

The Australian Conservation Foundation has launched what it described as a historic bid to have the federal government’s approval of Adani’s Carmichael coalmine declared illegal – but the action ha

Publication Date: 
10/11/2015
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Mining, Environment, Pollution, Corals, Australia, Adani, Ecology
Climate Change

Australia is ‘free to choose’ economic growth and falling environmental pressures

Over two centuries of economic growth have put undeniable pressure on the ecological systems that underpin human well-being. While it is agreed that these pressures are increasing, views divide on how they may be alleviated. Some suggest technological advances will automatically keep us from transgressing key environmental thresholds; others that policy reform can reconcile economic and ecological goals; while a third school argues that only a fundamental shift in societal values can keep human demands within the Earth’s ecological limits.

Publication Date: 
05/11/2015
Steve Hatfield-Dodds, Heinz Schandl, Philip D. Adams & et al
Nature
527
49–53
Tags:
Australia, Economic Development, Ecology, Agriculture, Green House Gases, Water Demand, Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, Energy, Fossil Fuels, Ecosystem Services, Climate Economics
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer

'The Blob' warm pool in the Pacific may prolong life of monster El Nino

The powerful "Great Godzilla" El Nino in the Pacific may last as much as two months longer than expected because of another unusual climate phenomenon scientists have nick-named "The Blob".

Publication Date: 
04/11/2015
Age (Australia)
Tags:
Atmosphere And Ozone Layer, El Nino, Weather Predictions, Australia, United States Of America (US), Heat Waves, Floods, Papua New Guinea
Wildlife

Australia's native animals have reduced ability to weather effects of forecast tough conditions

A "loss of resilience" among Australia's native animals has ecologists on alert ahead of what is forecast to be a long, hot summer.

Publication Date: 
04/11/2015
Age (Australia)
Tags:
Wildlife, Australia, Climate Impacts, Frogs, Birds, Weather Modifications
Climate Change

Majority of Australians believe in climate change: report

More than three-quarters of Australians believe that climate change is the real deal, according to a study released by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).

Publication Date: 
04/11/2015
Shanghai Daily (China)
Tags:
Climate Change, Australia, Climate Impacts
Health

Scientists to regrow skulls with stem cells and advanced 3D printing technology

Scientists in Australia are set to try out a "radical new procedure" where they regrow skulls using stem cells and 3D printers.

Publication Date: 
03/11/2015
International Business Times
Tags:
Health, Medical Research, Science And Technology, Australia, Scientists
Energy

Clean energy investment in Australia fell by 31% under Tony Abbott

Uncertainty over the future of Australia’s renewable energy target under the Abbott government precipitated a 31% drop in clean energy investment in Australia, according to the annual report of the

Publication Date: 
03/11/2015
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Energy, Renewable Energy, Australia, Electricity
Climate Change

Australia must help Pacific islands at Paris climate summit, says PNG leader

Papua New Guinea’s prime minister Peter O’Neill has urged Australia to be an advocate for the Pacific in pushing for a strong agreement at this month’s worldwide climate change talks in Paris.

Publication Date: 
03/11/2015
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Climate Change, Pacific Islands, Global Warming, Australia, COP 21 (Paris), Climate Mitigation
Energy

Clean energy investment in Australia fell by 31% under Tony Abbott

Uncertainty over the future of Australia’s renewable energy target under the Abbott government precipitated a 31% drop in clean energy investment in Australia, according to the annual report of the

Publication Date: 
02/11/2015
Guardian (UK)
Tags:
Energy, Renewable Energy, Australia, Electricity

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