Greg Hunt

Greg Hunt is a Liberal party politician and the current environment minister of Australia

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• Bushfire season 'will be more severe as a result of climate change'

  20 Oct 2014: Report predicts economic cost of fires will triple by 2050 and urges reduction in carbon emissions
  

• Australia pledges to halt loss of native mammal species by 2020

  15 Oct 2014: Environment minister reveals masterplan that involves tackling feral cats thought to kill 75m birds and mammals a day

• Australia’s Antarctica position under threat due to scientific funding shortfall

  10 Oct 2014: Other nations in danger of eclipsing Australia’s interests, with just a ‘narrow window of opportunity’ to transform Hobart into a key gateway to Antarctica, a 20-year strategic plan finds
  

• Nick Xenophon says his form of Direct Action will actually cut emissions

  8 Oct 2014: Independent senator says his amendment proposing penalties for polluters would make the Coalition’s climate plan work

• Great Barrier Reef dredge approval was ‘suicide’ for reef authority

  7 Oct 2014: Coral reef expert says Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has lost its credibility and budget cuts left it unable to protect the world heritage site

• Greg Hunt told of climate change link to weather before he quoted Wikipedia

  7 Oct 2014: Bureau of Meteorology advised minister that such a link was ‘increasingly established’ in scientific literature

• Australia's investment in renewable energy slumps 70% in one year

  3 Oct 2014: The Coalition’s review of the Renewable Energy Target has caused investment in clean energy to drop below that of Algeria, Thailand and Myanmar

• Home insulation deaths: families to receive compensation

  30 Sep 2014: Tony Abbott says government owes it to the families of the four men who died to ‘ensure that this should never happen again’

• PUP win an inquiry into Queensland Newman government – as it happened

  30 Sep 2014: In a deal with the Greens, the inquiry will examine wide-ranging issues relating to the Newman government and commonwealth oversight into coal seam gas projects in Queensland. As it happened

• Great Barrier Reef: legal action to stand despite new dredging plan

  9 Sep 2014: Guardian Australia: Conservationists ‘waiting to see details’ of proposed land-based sediment disposal before dropping challenge to sea dumping

• States can't protect threatened species and world heritage sites, says report

  6 Sep 2014: <strong> Guardian Australia: </strong> Analysis undermines ‘one-stop-shop’ devolution of environmental approvals from federal government to states

• Great Barrier Reef: Senate inquiry calls for halt to sediment dumping

  4 Sep 2014: Report says more studies needed into impacts of dredging and calls for end to cuts to government agencies that protect reef

• Palmer United party to block ‘one-stop-shop’ environmental approvals

  2 Sep 2014: Guardian Australia: Senators will vote against Coalition’s plan to hand the states decision-making powers over development projects

• Renewable energy target review backs closure of scheme to new entrants

  28 Aug 2014: Recommendations would curtail investment and subsidies for large-scale and household renewables

• 'Direct Action' could meet emissions target if Coalition allows changes

  24 Aug 2014: Research shows amendments from senator Nick Xenophon would meet 2020 emission reduction target of 5%

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