Section of the EPA (Environment Protection Agency) Queensland featuring Queensland government’s Climate Change and Greenhouse Website. The site provides links to four publications: Climate Smart Adaptation public discussion paper, Climate Smart Adaptation evaluation report, Queensland Greenhouse Strategy and Queensland Greenhouse Policy Framework. The tree first documents are available as PDF documents online, the fourth can currently not be downloaded.
http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/environmental_management/sustainability/
climate_change_and_greenhouse/
Article of The Age newspaper in June 2006, quoting Prof Peter Grace, Research Director of the Institute for Sustainable Resources at QUT (Queensland University of Technology). Prof Grace states the impacts climate change predictions in Queensland will have on wheat production.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Climate-change-could
-crush-wheat-yields/2006/06/07/1149359793522.html
Media release of the Australian Democrats, quoting Senator Andrew Bartlett saying the proposals in the Brisbane City Council's climate change taskforce report run directly counter to the Council's own record. Published in February 2006. Link to Senator Bartlett’s website provided.
http://www.democrats.org.au/news/index.htm?press_id=5671
Queensland University of Technology news article featuring a soil testing kit aimed at reducing fertiliser cost and greenhouse gas emissions, and improving soil health and food production. This kit is usable by farmers worldwide, and article includes comments by Institute for Sustainable Resources’ research director Professor Peter Grace. Additional link to
Healthy Soils website, which contains details of the kit presentation.
http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.
woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=13076
A UQ (University of Queensland) news online website on how UQ researchers are discovering the commercial benefits of burying CO2 underground. By using the process of geosequestration, researchers from UQ's Energy & Environment Engineering group have almost halved the cost of capture and storage. The article was published in October 2006.
http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=10623