What does the OECD’s decision to limit finance for coal power stations mean for coal producers such as Australia?
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It’s time to close Australia’s brown coal power stations. Here’s how.
Australia is reportedly blocking a deal to limit coal power finance in developing countries.
Mozambique has long standing energy challenges and widespread energy poverty. To change this, particularly for people living in rural areas, it needs to democratise the way it supplies energy.
Only a few coal producers are undertaking risk assessments about the danger of coal assets becoming “stranded”, or unviable.
Coal exporting countries could buffer the transition to low carbon economies by taxing coal production or exports.
Considerations of the moral case for coal must do far more than consider whether cheap fossil energy will lift people out of poverty. It must consider the pollution and harm to nature that come with it.
I’ve been feeling uncharacteristically optimistic about the future of the country. Like most Australians, it seems, I’m infatuated with Malcolm Turnbull. My unaccustomed euphoria has been brought on by…
Australia’s failure to reassess its commitment to coal will have serious negative consequences, not only for Australia’s economy, but for the health and well being of millions of people and the global environment.
Experts respond to the reapproval of Adani’s Carmichael mine.
The key drivers for energy in the 21st century are managing climate change, shifting community concerns, and radical technology change.
The Minerals Council’s new coal ad is the latest to attract derision online. But for the resources industry, the mockery may just be collateral damage in the wider mission to reach out to its supporters.
Australia’s new cap on emissions includes aspects of a “baseline and credit” emissions trading scheme. That’s cheaper for businesses, but means more regulation.
Australia’s biggest banks seem more concerned with disclosing how much paper they recycle than their lending exposure to coal mines.
Amid jeers of hypocrisy and cheers of climate leadership, what can we really say about this policy move in one of New South Wales’ historic coal towns?
For more than a decade the coal industry’s favoured response to climate change was carbon capture and storage, or CCS. CCS is still the main defence, but the absence of functioning projects is making it ever more threadbare.
Richard Di Natale, leader of The Greens, told the Q&A audience that India will no longer buying Australian coal but presenter Tony Jones said he thought that was wrong. We check the facts.
The government plans to change the law so green groups don’t automatically qualify to mount legal challenges against environmental approvals. That would make it much harder for green watchdogs to act.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said his government’s 2030 climate target will be good for the environment and jobs – and good for protecting the nation’s coal industry.
A politician invites coal industry representatives to a celebration of their work at the New South Wales Parliament. The purpose? To push the message that coal is absolutely essential to our economy and wellbeing.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Research fellow, Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW Sydney
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Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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Conjoint Academic in Sustainability, University of Newcastle
