Climate Project News Archive
Presenter Spotlight: Lisa Kendal - An Audience with Penny Wong
Climate Project Presenter Lisa Kendal
This week Lisa Kendal, Climate Project Presenter and Ballarat Renewable Energy and Zero Emissions (BREAZE) Executive Officer, had a half hour meeting in Ballarat with Climate Change Minister Penny Wong.
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Climate Cover-Up – The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
Climate Cover-Up – The Crusade to Deny Global Warming provides a timely and alarming overview of a global propaganda campaign that has, for over two decades and largely funded by the oil and gas industry, successfully made the public believe that climate science is controversial, unproven and unworthy of united global action.
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Fifty-five countries pledge to cut greenhouse emissions
Fifty-five countries have formally pledged to cut or limit their emissions in a move welcomed by the UN's climate change body as an important step towards achieving a legally binding global agreement.
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Noughties Australia’s hottest decade on record
Koala cooling off during the heatwave
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) has confirmed that 2009 ends as Australia’s hottest decade on record, while the year itself was Australia’s second hottest year on record.
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The 53 Commonwealth States declare action on climate change
Photo: Buckingham Palace Press Office
Despite the chaos reigning in Australia’s Federal Parliament over the passage of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, the Queen of England and the 53 Commonwealth States have agreed it is time to take the lead on climate change action.
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The Copenhagen Diagnosis
A recently published text titled The Copenhagen Diagnosis draws on hundreds of relevant climate science papers which have been released since the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).
The main findings of The Copenhagen Diagnosis are that delaying action on climate change risks irreversible damage and that a turning point must come soon if global warming is to be limited to a maximum of 2ºC. more »
Gore releases 'Our Choice'
Our Choice
Former US Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore has released "Our Choice," his new book that focuses on solutions to the climate crisis. The new book, a long awaited follow up to An Inconvenient Gore takes the issue to the next, harder stage and proposes the solutions. more »
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The Climate Project - Australia
The Climate Project Australia, the Australian branch of Al Gore’s climate change leadership program, is a non-profit organization founded in November 2006. TCP’s mission is to educate the public about the harmful effects of climate change and to work toward solutions at a grassroots level worldwide.
TCP has more than 3,000 diverse and dedicated volunteers internationally. These volunteers are known as TCP Presenters and have been personally trained by Nobel Laureate and former US Vice President Al Gore to deliver an updated version of the slide show featured in the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth. TCP Presenters have delivered 70,000 presentations and have reached a combined global audience of 7.3 million. Presentations are customized and frequently revised to include the latest climate science and can be requested free of charge by any size group or organization.
TCP Australia operates in association with the Australian Conservation Foundation.