Environment
Climate change and the environment are topics that are attracting a lot of attention these days.
Yahoo!7 will keep you up to date with the latest environmental news.
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I'll win leadership challenge: Turnbull
A tough-talking Malcolm Turnbull has attacked his challenger Tony Abbott and Senate leader Nick Minchin, ahead of Tuesday's expected leadership ballot.
November 29, 2009, 9:05 am -
Commonwealth throws weight behind climate talks
PORT OF SPAIN (AFP) - Commonwealth leaders representing two billion people on Saturday threw their combined weight behind upcoming climate talks, driving momentum towards a new carbon-cutting treaty.
November 29, 2009, 8:52 am -
Rudd to rebuff call for Afghan reinforcements
Australia is under pressure to send more troops to Afghanistan after a stern call to action from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
November 29, 2009, 6:29 am -
Commonwealth fully backing climate talks
The 53 nations of the Commonwealth have thrown their full weight behind climate talks to be held in Copenhagen in just over a week.
November 29, 2009, 6:10 am -
World leaders spruik climate deal chances
Hopes for a new global climate pact have risen after rich nations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Trinidad and Tobago offered to help poorer countries bear the costs of implementing any deal.
November 28, 2009, 11:26 pm -
CHOGM talks boost climate deal hopes
Hopes rose that a new global climate pact was within reach after rich nations at a Commonwealth summit offered to help poorer countries bear the costs.
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Turnbull stands firm on climate change
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull is standing firm against party rebels, insisting his top priority is to honour the ETS agreement with the government.
November 28, 2009, 6:40 pm -
Turnbull stands firm on climate change
Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull is standing firm against party rebels, insisting his top priority is to honour the ETS agreement with the government.
November 28, 2009, 6:09 pm -
Rudd shrugs off climate woes at CHOGM
PM Kevin Rudd says "political will" exists to approve a climate change deal at the Copenhagen UN summit, despite his own legislation being bogged in the Senate.
November 28, 2009, 3:59 pm -
Rudd plays down double dissolution talk
The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he is committed to getting the emissions trading scheme (ETS) through Parliament but is not thinking about calling an early election to do so.
November 28, 2009, 3:39 pm -
Swan urges Hockey to battle Lib sceptics
Treasurer Wayne Swan has called on Joe Hockey to not sell out to "climate change dinosaurs" in his own party over the fallout from the ETS.
November 28, 2009, 1:51 pm -
Momentum grows for Copenhagen climate deal
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - World leaders on Friday rallied to a diplomatic offensive to forge a U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an agreement was "within reach".
November 28, 2009, 11:43 am -
Copenhagen success in sight: Ban Ki-moon
Britain and France have committed to paying developing nations to combat global warming by calling for a $A10.9 billion climate fund financed by rich countries.
November 28, 2009, 10:47 am -
Momentum builds for Copenhagen climate deal
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - World leaders on Friday rallied to a diplomatic offensive to forge a U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said an agreement was "within reach".
November 28, 2009, 10:28 am -
World leaders rally for Copenhagen climate deal
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - World leaders on Friday rallied to a diplomatic offensive to forge a U.N. climate deal in Copenhagen next month, which Denmark's prime minister said would be a turning point in the fight against global warming.
November 28, 2009, 9:14 am -
Most Coalition voters back ETS: Newspoll
It's been revealed that the Coalition faces an electoral wipeout at next year's federal election if the rebels succeed in blocking the government's ETS.
November 28, 2009, 7:35 am -
Obama to host Rudd for White House talks
US President Barack Obama will host Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Monday, a day before announcing his revamped Afghanistan war strategy.
November 28, 2009, 7:12 am -
PM to help islands facing rising seas
PM Kevin Rudd is expected to announce financial help for small island states affected by climate change at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
November 28, 2009, 6:06 am -
Rudd talks climate change with Denmark, France
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has met other world leaders to discuss climate change on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in the Caribbean.
November 28, 2009, 5:48 am
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Melody Horrill
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