Kevin Rudd

...December. Mrs Merkel issued her call for caution during a joint press conference with the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, after an hour-long meeting on the eve of G8 talks in L'Aquila, in the earthquake-devastated Abruzzo region. Both spoke...

In this article: Angela Merkel, G8, Climate change, Global warming, Copenhagen, US, L'Aquila, and China

...then the outcome at Copenhagen won't see us doing much at all. Rudd himself has told us an agreement is unlikely, even if he didn't mean his candid assessment to become public. Yet he wants the Senate to pass his carbon reduction scheme into...

In this article: Climate change, Malcolm Turnbull, Carbon, Greg Combet, Coal, Carbon dioxide, Copenhagen, and Al Gore

The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd and his Italian counterpart, Silvio Berlusconi, held bilateral talks at the end of the Group of Eight meeting in L'Aquila and signed a memorandum of understanding after years of controversy. The joint...

In this article: Italy, Australia, Oxford University, Silvio Berlusconi, L'Aquila, South Australia, and Rome

Mr Rudd, the patron of the Australia-Abruzzo Earthquake Appeal Fund, heads off overseas on Monday for meetings in Malaysia and Germany before he meets world leaders attending the 17-nation Major Economies Forum in L'Aquila. He said...

In this article: Australia, Supreme Court, Italy, L'Aquila, Sepp Blatter, James Gobbo, Bruno Grollo, and Galileo Galilei

On climate, it's Washington v. Beijing Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and U.S. President Barack Obama make a statement on the environment at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, July 9, 2009. (Jason Reed/Reuters) The Major Economies...

In this article: G8, Kyoto Protocol, Global warming, L'Aquila, Barack Obama, U.S., China, and Unenforceable

...L'Aquila on Thursday. The prime minister urged Mr Zoellick to get the World Bank to do more to help Pacific island nations steer their way through the economic crisis and deal with the impacts of climate change. "They agreed that...

In this article: World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Bob Zoellick, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Australia, Pacific, Climate change, and L'Aquila

...her during a visit to Australia in January 1995. Mr Rudd's meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday follows a short visit with FIFA to discuss Australia's World Cup soccer bid for 2018. The meetings are part of a week-long whirlwind...

In this article: Pope Benedict XVI, Australia, FIFA, World Cup, Pope John Paul II, and Penny Wong

...USA TODAY L'AQUILA, Italy President Obama and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced Thursday the creation of a new institute to research how best to capture and store carbon emissions that are heating the globe. Making the best...

In this article: Barack Obama, Carbon, Climate change, Global warming, Italy, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, U.S., and Robert Gibbs

...Blessed Mary MacKillop. Mr Rudd will also meet Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome before attending the MEF in the town of L'Aquila, north-east of Rome, which was hit by a severe earthquake in April. At the MEF, Mr Rudd will...

In this article: Climate change, Malaysia, Rome, Copenhagen, L'Aquila, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur, FIFA, and Sepp Blatter