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Tag: governmental

Climate-wrecking carbon pollution can no longer be free

13 January 2019 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Educational, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

The lesson from Australia’s abolished carbon tax and France’s cancelled petrol tax is that it is extremely important that it is done in such a way that is reasonable and fair, and is carefully explained so that it is also perceived by the wider public in that way

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Our coal fired power stations: Shut them down!

28 October 2016 Web Editor Australian matters, Commentary, Petition One comment

Submission to the Committee Secretary, Re: Retirement of coal fired power stations It’s time to get serious about the climate emergency and start shutting down coal fired power stations. There is no more time to pander to the coal industry,

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Submission for the parliamentary inquiry into the Paris Agreement

8 October 2016 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Recommendation

Submission from Centre for Climate Safety to the Australian Government’s Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Parliament House in Canberra, regarding the Paris Agreement treaty being considered, and regarding the actions the government must take to drive emergency-speed emissions reductions in

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Yet another exploration licence for coal? It feels like betrayal

7 September 2015 Mik Aidt Commentary 2 comments

 Update on 7 September 2015:    Response from Lily D’Ambrosio MP  22 June 2015 Dear Daniel Andrews, Premier, and Lily D’Ambrosio, Minister for Energy and Resources, I am vigorously supporting a recent letter to you from Mik Aidt (Geelong) reproduced

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Reasons why gas mining in Victoria must be stopped

7 July 2015 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters

A radio podcast for politicians and decision makers in the Victorian state parliament about the prospects of turning farmland into industrial gasfields. 1.3 million hectares of land in Victoria is threatened by onshore gas mining. The 80th Sustainable Hour on

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Climate ignorance responsible for teenage despair

13 June 2014 Mik Aidt Local Geelong matters, World affairs

Climate change can be linked to increase in Australia’s suicide rates, a study shows. In this the 29th edition of The Sustainable Hour on 94.7 The Pulse, we talk about what a city’s councillors could and should be doing in

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Call for a mature discussion about climate change and vested interests

29 May 2014 Mik Aidt Australian matters, Local Geelong matters, World affairs

While Lismore City Council aims to go 100 per cent renewables in just ten years, the City of Greater Geelong Council has recently approved a draft budget with sustainability initiatives receiving little or no funding. “We need to have a

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Call for a risk assessment by our leaders

8 December 2013 Mik Aidt Petition, Recommendation

Could this ‘Wise Response’ appeal from New Zealand show a model which could be copy-pasted and translated in your country? Tackling the threats of climate change by transitioning our society to a zero-carbon energy production really shouldn’t be a political

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Message to world leaders from 520 scientists

28 May 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, Petition, World affairs

If you have never signed a petition or endorsed a paper, now should be your first time. The paper that I think you should sign is a newly published ‘Message to world leaders’, which is already endorsed by 520 scientists

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The second front against climate change: SLCP

28 May 2013 Mik Aidt Commentary, Recommendation

When it comes to climate change and energy transition, reaching global — or even national — consensus on what we want is not an easy task. There are so many ways we could go. In order to speed up the

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