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Radio Australia News nospam@your.abc.net.au nospam@your.abc.net.au 2008-10-06T14:09:23+11:00 2008-10-06T14:09:23+11:00 Australia's peak scientific research body, the CSIRO, has warned Australians climate change could soon influence their menu choices.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2383151.htm2008-10-06T14:09:23+11:00Australia's peak scientific research body, the CSIRO, has warned Australians climate change could soon influence their menu choices.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2383033.htm2008-10-06T12:47:47+11:00Authorities in China say some 300,000 heavy polluting vehicles will be replaced or removed in Beijing over the next year, to improve air quality.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200810/s2381362.htm2008-10-03T15:31:42+11:00The head of the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association says it's ridiculous to suggest that a quarter of the territory's herd could be replaced by kangaroos.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2378403.htm2008-09-30T19:26:20+11:00Australia's climate change minister Penny Wong says the government won't announce its mid-range emission reduction target until the end of the year.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2378405.htm2008-09-30T17:59:35+11:00A group of Australian climate change experts has written a letter to the prime minister, Kevin Rudd, arguing that cutting greenhouse gas emissions by only 10 per cent would be dangerous.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2376755.htm2008-09-29T11:37:13+11:00A report by international aid agency World Vision says the negative effects of climate change are becoming more evident in coastal areas across the Asia Pacific Region.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2372185.htm2008-09-23T14:48:49+11:00The global charity organisation World Vision says large investments are needed to protect millions of poor people living in Asia-Pacific coastal areas who are vulnerable to increasingly deadly natural disasters.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2370452.htm2008-09-22T09:37:51+11:00The Australian Government plans to spend around $US80 million setting up an international body to promote research and development into cleaner coal production.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2369067.htm2008-09-19T12:19:42+11:00The European Union says it will do more to help Pacific Island nations deal with climate change and tackle the ongoing problem of illegal fishing.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2367235.htm2008-09-17T15:28:42+11:00The Australian Government is being urged to speed up the introduction of a national standard for carbon offsets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2365468.htm2008-09-16T07:59:14+11:00The chief executive of Australia's biggest steel producer Bluescope says it will be difficult to convince Chinese and Indian companies to cut emissions.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2363368.htm2008-09-12T21:14:54+11:00New Zealand has passed a climate change bill that will set up the country's first emissions trading scheme.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2362416.htm2008-09-11T21:20:28+11:00New research published in the Nature journal has calculated that northern hemisphere old forests are storing 15 per cent of annual global carbon emissions.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2361989.htm2008-09-11T16:24:35+11:00The Australian government's climate change adviser says Australia should cut its greenhouse emissions by at least 10 per cent by 2020.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2356613.htm2008-09-05T14:11:12+11:00The Australian Government's climate change adviser will report on how fast he believes Australia should cut its greenhouse gas emissions.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2356117.htm2008-09-05T11:01:07+11:00The chair of the Pacific Islands Leaders Forum has called on the regional group to grasp opportunities presented by current international debate on climate change.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2342141.htm2008-08-21T09:45:18+11:00An Australian bureaucrat who will implement Australia's carbon trading scheme has attacked climate change sceptics at a forum in Sydney.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2327958.htm2008-08-07T18:35:21+11:00Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is to make his first official visit to New Zealand on the 19th of this month.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2324916.htm2008-08-05T15:47:15+11:00A new study has found that Australia's untouched forests can store three times as much carbon as previously thought.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2324131.htm2008-08-05T10:25:16+11:00The environment is dominating Australian politics this week, with the federal opposition declaring it is unrealistic at this stage to talk about a start date for the Coalition's policy on climate change.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2320994.htm2008-08-01T09:18:54+11:00Australian opposition treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull says the coalition may have to change its emissions trading scheme policy in the lead-up to the next election, depending on what the government does.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200808/s2320920.htm2008-08-01T01:17:27+11:00The Australian opposition's climate change spokesman says public wrangling over the coalition's stance on emissions trading has produced a 'sharper' policy.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2319627.htm2008-07-31T02:36:26+11:00Britain is calling on Papua New Guinea to play a lead role in combating climate change.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2319380.htm2008-07-30T19:22:14+11:00Bangladesh scientists say the country is growing, despite predictions that parts of the country would sink because of climate change.http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2319030.htm2008-07-30T14:34:52+11:00