The policy will see Australia join the great ‘geoeconomic game’ reshaping international supply chains. But it won’t be without new risks for doing business.
Australia is expanding trade and investment with Southeast Asia to improve regional prosperity and global climate security. Here’s what to expect at the April 15-16 green economy summit in Vietnam.
Renewable energy provides about 20% of U.S. electricity.
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New charts and data show how corporate demand could boost clean energy investment in regions where renewable energy potential is strong but wind and solar power have lagged.
Millions of Ghanaians rely on private commercial transport to commute.
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Ivan Savin, ESCP Business School and Lewis King, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
According to a survey of almost 800 climate researchers, 73% are sceptical of the idea of green growth. Instead, approaches such as agrowth and degrowth are gaining ground.
There’s a reason why the west has long avoided state aid.
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Jun Du, Aston University and Holger Görg, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Just because the US is tearing up the international consensus against state aid doesn’t meant the likes of the EU and UK should follow suit.
Coal operations at one of South Africa’s coal-fired power plants. Industrial policy needs to envisage less reliance on carbon.
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Julius Gatune, Maastricht School of Management and Deon Cloete, South African Institute of International Affairs
The scenarios provide plausible and possible alternatives for futures of industrialisation. They also alert decision makers to desired and undesired development pathways.
A child from the Mayuruna ethnic group stands on a pier on the banks of the Atalaia do Norte River in Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 12, 2022. Federal police and military forces are searching and investigating the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira.
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Australia can afford to transform Australian manufacturing into an economically viable, environmentally sustainable and job-creating sector. To do that, we need a strategic and long-term approach.
Green bonds also encourage environmental investment elsewhere.
ESG rankings and lists aren’t often entirely reliable for consumers or investors wanting to make decisions on companies they buy from or invest in.
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Some companies rank high on some lists that measure environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives, and rank near the bottom on other lists. Which rankings should we trust?
Hydrogen-filled cargo airships could do for the Northern economy what the railways did for Western Canada 125 years ago. It’s time to lift the antiquated ban on hydrogen gas for use in blimps.
Green Party co-leaders Marama Davidson and James Shaw.
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The US President pledged ambitious growth in the fossil fuel industry on his 2016 campaign trail – but new data shows that the green economy was already growing almost three times as fast.
Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Discipline of Politics & International Relations, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University