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Smoothing the transition to clean energy for fossil fuel workers and their communities requires local leadership and the support of a new federal authority
Australia’s environmental movement is not united. The reasons for that go deep.
The Greens wanted Australia to rule out new coal and gas projects. Instead, we have a hard cap on emissions – and that should make many fossil fuel projects unviable
Australia continues to support unlimited growth in fossil fuel production and export, flying in the face of the latest IPCC report. Mapped: 67 new coal, and 49 gas/oil projects.
Biden vowed ‘no more drilling on federal lands,’ but Russia’s war on Ukraine and pressures at home are hard to ignore.
To operate properly, combustion engines inevitably waste a certain amount of fuel. But it may be possible to reduce fuel consumption by reducing friction between engine parts.
Labor must resist the false promise of carbon offsets in its safeguard mechanism. The only thing that matters is actually cutting emissions
You won’t like this idea – but we may well need oil and gas companies to make green hydrogen and green chemicals a reality
Political will is necessary for governments to move away from oil. But alternative energies are not all that they seem, and should be considered carefully beyond the appearance of sustainability.
Developing countries are expected to quit coal faster than any energy transition in history.
Fossils aren’t just pieces of the past that allow scientists to look backwards. They can play a role in modern policy decision-making, too.
Researchers looked at a decade of political spending by the oil and gas industry and others engaged in climate policy. If money talks, one side had a giant megaphone.
Canada has no choice but to adapt its energy sources and industries in a ‘just transition.’ If it doesn’t, the inevitable transition will be much more disruptive — and much less just.
Even as renewables boom like never before, our reliance on fossil fuels remains stubbornly high. One problem? The rebound effect
The UK windfall tax has barely made a dent in surging energy profits this year.
The Los Angeles area has over 20,000 active, idle or abandoned oil wells. The city and county have voted to ban new ones after studies showed health problems in residents living nearby.
California is one of the world’s largest economies, and it’s aiming for net-zero emissions by 2045. A transportation expert involved in the plan explains why it just might succeed.
The current energy transition could herald a new copper world. But will it be a long-anticipated resource blessing or yet another global scramble for the precious metal?
Has climate action bogged down? Hardly. Nations are redoubling their efforts in visible and less visible ways.
Top contributors
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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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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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Sociology; Co-Founder, Center for Environmental Justice at CSU, Colorado State University
