If Canada chooses to keep its oil in the ground, it doesn’t mean turning off the tap overnight. Skilled trades will be key to winding down the industry and building up new lines of work.
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Research shows white male voices tend to dominate climate discussions - this must change if we are to halt environmental destruction.
This is a transcript of part 3 of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast.
How governments can ensure phasing out oil and gas won’t do more damage.
Listen to the third episode of a new series from The Anthill Podcast ahead of the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow.
Environmental management accounting can be used to identify, analyse, manage and reduce environmental costs.
Good governance should be seen as the first and main tool for achieving climate change mitigation as policymakers pursue sustainable solutions for the environmental crisis.
There is significant potential for the community trusts to improve the financial position of communities. But it’s not happening.
More than ten offshore wind farms are currently proposed for Australia. If built, their combined capacity would be greater than all coal-fired power plants in the nation.
Countries cannot be expected to all tread the same path to net zero emissions.
Yallourn power station, Australia’s oldest and dirtiest coal plant, will close four years ahead of schedule. Without a national policy, coal workers are left dangerously exposed.
For an orderly transition from fossil fuels, Australia needs a carbon price to replace its hodgepodge of clumsy government interventions.
Governments must expand the number of people who see themselves as “winners” in the transition to a low-carbon society.
A recent report found widespread support among North Sea oil and gas workers for a career in renewable energy.
Canada retooled its economy during the Second World War. We must do so again to confront the climate emergency.
Powerful interests are shaping the debate over the transition to a low carbon economy.
Some coal workers have the right skills and work in the right location to get a job in renewables. But many, such as semi-skilled machine operators, cannot.
The oil and gas industry was in trouble before the pandemic hit, but now it faces potential collapse. A majority of Canadians want the federal government to invest in a ‘green recovery.’
South Africa envisages the gradual closure of older coal plants, mostly located in Mpumalanga. Can these coal fields be turned into renewable energy hubs?
New research shows how deeply entrenched “us” and “them” attitudes make it much harder to make a fair energy transition.
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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