China has unveiled its first firm target for limiting greenhouse gas emissions, two weeks before a global summit on climate change in Copenhagen.
Beijing said it would aim to reduce its “carbon intensity” by 40-45% by the year 2020, compared with 2005 levels.
Carbon intensity, China’s preferred measurement, is the amount of carbon dioxide emitted for each [...]

Three Liberal frontbenchers have been confirmed as having resigned from the shadow cabinet.
Senior Liberal frontbencher Tony Abbott, Senator Stephen Perry and Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella announced their resignation this evening.
Tony Abbott’s resignation from the shadow cabinet fuels speculation Malcolm Turnbull may soon face another leadership challenge.
Mr Abbott says he and Senate leader Nick Minchin have [...]

While agriculture and food production have long been considered untouchable in international climate talks, calls to make the sector contribute to greenhouse gas mitigation efforts have been growing louder.
Food is strategic and agricultural production is a vital sector of many national economies. Yet, discussions are shifting from how to adapt farming to climate change to how to make agriculture contribute [...]

Well to say that I’m underwhelmed with the grandiose offer to reduce it’s greenhouse gas emissions in the “range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020,” according to the White House official statement, and that Obama will grace the Copenhagen Climate Change conference with his presence for a day on December 9th en route [...]