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False Hope: Why carbon capture and storage won't save the climate Enlarge image

False Hope: Why carbon capture and storage won't save the climate

May 05, 2008

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) aims to reduce the climate impact of burning fossil fuels by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2)from power station smokestacks and disposing of it underground. Its future development has been widely promoted by the coal industry as a justification for the construction of new coal-fired power plants. However, the technology is largely unproven and will not be ready in time to save the climate.

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Securing the future, an alternative plan for Solomon Island forests and economy Enlarge image

Securing the future: An alternative plan for Solomon Island forests and economy.

April 25, 2008

The Solomon Islands forests are in crisis. The International Monetary Fund recently predicted a rapid collapse of logging, with all commercial natural forests cut down by 2014. The environmental, financial, economic and social impacts of this will be serious. The report, Securing the future, presents an alternative plan for Solomon Island forests and economy.

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Video: 'No future in coal' balloon

Prime Minister Rudd wants to stop dangerous climate change and we'd like him to show that all his talk is not hot air. So the Greenpeace hot air balloon took flight with a message to Kevin in spectacular fashion: "Save the climate - No future in coal".

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Factsheet: Time to stop funding climate change

April 03, 2008

Every year state and federal governments put at least $9 billion dollars of taxpayers’ money into subsidies that encourage the use of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil). Most of these subsidies result in increasing greenhouse gas emissions. Australians are paying to be put at greater risk of extreme climate change impacts like droughts and bush fires. If governments are serious about tackling climate change, they must start redirecting public funding away from polluting fossil fuels to clean energy like wind and solar.

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Video: Protect our forest
Month in pictures: March 2008
Video slideshow: Ecoforestry in action
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