Australia’s usual approach to big international negotiations is to hold out, before reluctantly making “concessions”. It’s the wrong approach for trade, and the wrong approach for climate change.
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At the bottom of our carbon fears is a big black problem.
There is significant potential for the community trusts to improve the financial position of communities. But it’s not happening.
Hydrogen could replace fossil fuels, but it’s only as clean as the techniques used to produce it. Almost all production comes from high-carbon sources, but new investments could change that.
Electric vehicles deserve government subsidies, but there are even better ways to build greener, less car-dependent cities.
Heat pumps are the technology of choice for heating and cooling buildings more efficiently and with fewer carbon emissions than furnaces and air conditioning.
If shipping were a country, it would rank between Japan and Germany as the sixth-largest contributor to global carbon dioxide emissions.
Rhetoric is hardening, but government policies still honour the special relationship with fossil fuels.
Carbon has overshadowed forests in climate policies, leading to practices that appear green but actually harm forests.
How much energy does the internet use, and - given recent technological advances - could it ever run on renewable energy alone?
Emissions linger in the atmosphere for far longer than human or corporate lifespans.
Chinese bitcoin mining could consume as much energy as the whole of the UK by 2024.
In setting new tax on the carbon emissions of goods being imported into the bloc, there are two potential disasters for EU to avoid.
A global energy authority created a roadmap for the world to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Meanwhile, Australia committed $600 million for a major new gas plant.
A plan to use swappable batteries in long-haul electric trucks highlights how freight is starting to move away from fossil fuels.
Even if they can’t save us from climate change, society still depends on forests.
The Earth should be safe (and habitable) for a few billions of years, but we still need to worry about the impact now of just a few degrees of global warming.
Renewable energy sources won’t make a decisive impact to alleviate South Africa’s power shortage for at least five years.
A transcript of episode 7 of The Conversation Weekly pocast, including an extra from Don’t Call Me Resilient on the treatment of migrant workers in Canada.
Plus we hear about the hardships faced by migrant workers in Canada. Listen to episode 7 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Top contributors
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Departmental Visitor, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
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Director of Workforce Development, Clean Energy Council, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
