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Australians have reached for their spades and revived their vegetable gardens to beat the price shocks that have sent the price of iceberg lettuce soaring as high as $10 a head.
Climate change: Australia signs new carbon emissions target
Rapidly phasing out coal power plants and mines would be vital for Australia’s new government to meet its more ambitious carbon emissions targets, environmentalists said, while urging renewable energy investments for mining communities. Australia’s Labor Party formed a new government on Monday, after unprecedented support for the Greens and climate-focused independents ended nearly a decade of rule by the conservative coalition in Saturday last week’s general election. New Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of center-left Labor has promised to end the “climate wars”— disagr...
Pacific islands want Australia to bat for them in global climate negotiations, say experts.
* Newly elected Labor government has ambitious emissions targets * Yet experts say proposals are insufficient to meet Paris accord * Transition may hinge on support for coal workers to leave sector By Michael Taylor KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rapidly phasing out coal power plants and mines will be vital for Australia's new government to meet its more ambitious carbon emissions targets, environmentalists said, while urging renewable energy investments for mining communities.