Headlines from GLW #741, 27 February 2008:

Labor: Garnaut climate report just 'early thinking'

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 22 February 2008

The federal Labor government has sought to play down the call made by its chief climate change policy adviser for it to go well beyond its target of a 60% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In an interim report released on February 21, Professor Ross Garnaut said that by 2050 global carbon dioxide emissions would need to be reduced to 90% of 2000 levels if catastrophic climate change is to be avoided. »

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Power to the People! Keep energy public!

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 22 February 2008

The fight to keep New South Wales electricity in public hands can and must be won. If NSW Premier Morris Iemma and treasurer Michael Costa get away with their plan to sell off the state’s electricity generation capacity and its retail arms, working people and the community will get a dearer, less reliable service and the chances of the state moving to a sustainable energy policy will be reduced to zero. »

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Anti-pulp mill campaigner: `We can't afford to lose'

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 22 February 2008

“We start the campaign of 2008 without a pulp mill. Who would have thought that after more than three years [Premier Paul] Lennon and [Gunns Ltd CEO John] Gay would still not have their pulp mill?”, said Bob McMahon, one of the founders of Tasmanians Against The Pulp Mill (TAP). »

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Iraq: Four million face hunger

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 21 February 2008

IRAQ: “Four million Iraqis cannot guarantee they’re going to have food on their table tomorrow”, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Iraq, David Shearer, told Reuters news agency on February 12, adding that “humanitarian needs in Iraq have risen sharply over the last two years”. »

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Venezuela: Danger signs for the revolution

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 22 February 2008

VENEZUELA: In recent weeks, external and internal pressure against Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution, as the process of change led by socialist President Hugo Chavez is known, has intensified dramatically. »

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