Replanting trees is one of the better ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
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Many models used by policy-makers suggest we’ll have to remove CO2 from the atmosphere - but if we can’t, we have to get much more serious about cutting emissions.
We’ve come a long way since the agreement was formed in 2015.
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November 3, 2016
Bill Hare , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research ; Harald Winkler , University of Cape Town ; Julia P G Jones , Bangor University ; Luke Kemp , Australian National University ; Meraz Mostafa , Independent University, Bangladesh ; Pep Canadell , CSIRO , and Stefan Rahmstorf , Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Experts agree that a new era for climate policy here. But the hard work starts now.
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While action on air pollution is welcome, there may be better ways to cut car emissions.
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New technologies that can help us to meet climate change targets are struggling to see the light of day. Incentives need to be fixed, and carbon pricing is at the heart of the matter.
Australia’s LNG exports have driven domestic gas prices higher.
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With gas prices high, coal-fired power has been increasing, which is bad news for carbon emissions.
Companies have been caught off guard by campaigns to divest from fossil fuels.
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Most businesses construct climate risk solely through the lens of profitability and market opportunity.
Australia’s car industry got left behind on emissions standards.
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Australia’s lax attitudes to vehicle emissions has been overlooked in Ford’s exit.
It’s not quite time for international airlines to fly off into the sunset.
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A global deal on airline emissions leaves a number of loopholes.
Solar power generation is experiencing rapid growth.
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Renewable energy could be considered a central part of Malcolm Turnbull’s innovation ‘ideas boom’.
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The Norwegian capital shows other cities how it’s done, by setting out a tailor-made plan to reduce emissions to zero by 2030.
Plants absorb carbon and store it in the land.
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Australia is pumping 6.5 times more carbon into the atmosphere than the land can absorb.
South Australia is leading the way on wind energy - but that’s posing problems for the electricity sector.
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South Australia’s electricity price shock in July showed that Australia hasn’t worked out how to put large amounts of wind energy into the grid.
The Hazelwood power station has been named Australia’s ‘dirtiest’ for its carbon emissions.
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Victoria’s brown coal Hazelwood station produces 5% of Australia’s electricity, and 3% of the country’s carbon emissions.
Many businesses are committing to sourcing all of their energy from renewable sources.
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A swell of business action is continuing following the Paris climate agreement.
Fires in 1997 in Indonesia released over a billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. Indonesia’s forests burned again in 2015.
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The world has lost 10% of its wilderness areas in the past 20 years and, with it, vast stores of carbon.
Yallourn Power Station in the Latrobe Valley is one of the emissions intensive power stations that remains open.
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Environment and energy minister Josh Frydenberg said that eight out of Australia’s 12 most emission intensive power stations closed in the last five years. Is that right?
A price on carbon introduced by the Labor government, dubbed the “carbon tax”, was more effective at motivating big emitters to act, compared to the current Direct Action plan.
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New research has found that carbon intensive companies have lost focus on reducing emissions under Direct Action, when compared with the carbon tax.
Nne-star-rated ‘Catalyst’ houses built to maximise passive solar principles were evaluated against seven control houses built to DHHS standards.
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Emerging research challenges the idea that sustainable housing is unaffordable. It shows sustainability and good design can be affordable when analyses include social, health and wellbeing benefits.
Half a degree could make all the difference for the Great Barrier Reef.
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A new report published by the Climate Institute says Australia could avoid lengthy heatwaves and help save the Great Barrier Reef by meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C global warming goal.
Australia will likely have to close more coal power stations to meet climate targets.
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Australia’s energy watchdog has warned that closing coal power stations could leave us vulnerable to supply problems. But not if we help take the pressure off the grid.