Electrifying trucks and cars and shifting to renewable energy are crucial for California’s zero-emissions future.
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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.
Major new policies are still needed to accelerate the road transport transition. There’s good news, however: Australian motorists have been promised more choice soon.
Northern Ghana was treated as a periphery outpost by colonial administrators.
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Opposition from vested interests – including oil refineries and the car dealership industry – has held Australia back on fuel efficiency. The onus is now on the Albanese government to intervene.
Slow progress: a freight train negotiating one of the many tight curves between Goulburn and Yass.
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Since 1995, worldwide agricultural and food trade has more than doubled. It’s never been clearer that eating local produce is a powerful way to take action on climate change.
Social justice really can go hand in hand with environmental policy – here’s how.
Electric Cars being recharged in Paris. South Africa needs to subsidise entry level vehicles to boost sales.
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Labor and the Coalition are promising a lot in terms of transport, but most of the projects haven’t been assessed by Infrastructure Australia and are outside the federal government’s remit.
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It’s easy to blame COVID. But Australia has suffered medicine shortages for years. The pandemic has only highlighted the problem. Here’s what we could do to better avoid shortages in the first place.
There’s more spending on small local projects, so does it follow that it’s ‘pork-barrelling’? A new report shows what really matters is if the money is allocated under objective, transparent criteria.
The electric vehicle market across the world is growing fast.
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