Anthony Albanese in Nimbin, NSW, on November 12 2019 amid a season of a catastrophic bushfires.
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The Australian Labor Party has options on emissions reduction targets, but it is still running scared from the best mechanism to achieve them.
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The prime minister road-tested an avalanche of slogans on Wednesday, some of them clearly false.
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We already have most technologies Australia needs to make the clean energy transition. What’s missing is a plan to deploy them at huge scale.
The energy transition is already underway.
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Clean energy innovation, giving up coal, cutting methane and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26.
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A carbon tariff is a carbon tax applied to exports from countries such as Australian that don’t have one. Europe is planning to impose one.
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Australia’s top economists say Australia can’t “free-ride”, allowing others to cut emissions while it gets the benefits.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is seeing nothing but blue skies ahead when it comes to his policies on climate change. But will the newly re-elected Liberal government follow through?
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While the outcome of the 2021 federal election offered little in the way of change, it may have left Canada better positioned to make progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Reducing fossil use and increasing renewable energy worldwide are crucial to both sustainable development and fighting climate change.
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Energy and climate policies aren’t always headed in the same direction, but if they work together they can tackle two of the biggest challenges of our time.
The words Government Arson are painted on a shipping container on a property that was destroyed by the White Rock Lake wildfire in August in British Columbia.
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Canadians are faced with an unwanted election that’s placed climate progress at unnecessary risk.
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Despite sending Victorians into their fourth lockdown, the Andrews government retains a healthy lead in polling and is favoured to win the next election.
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We’d lose coal exports but benefit from a lower Australian dollar.
The Supreme Court of Canada rejected the request to strike down national carbon pricing. The plan is key to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.
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In its decision, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized the gravity of climate change and upheld the idea that Parliament has the authority to act on matters of “peace, order and good government.”
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Both sides can make a case, but they might not get the chance.
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It’s said the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour. Let’s hope that’s not the case with Mathias Cormann’s climate stance when he joins the OECD.
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Indonesia’s car sales tax cut could damage the environment as more cars on the streets will increase carbon emissions.
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For an orderly transition from fossil fuels, Australia needs a carbon price to replace its hodgepodge of clumsy government interventions.
Canada’s climate plan includes adding more electric vehicle charging stations, improving energy efficiency of homes and buildings, and raising the price on carbon to $170 per tonne by 2030.
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None of Canada’s past climate targets or plans has been credible. But the math on the latest plan, which relies on a steadily increasing carbon price, could have Canada meet its 2030 goal.
Bill C-12 is not a plan for Canada to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, but it would set targets to help it succeed.
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If Canada began to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by about four per cent per year, we could still meet our 2030 climate targets.
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Australia faces a carbon tax being imposed on it by its trading partners. It’s time to get ahead of the curve.