Japan is splashing cash for Australian gas to keep fossil fuels flowing under its net zero plan for South East Asia . But this undercuts Australia’s green export vision
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Global efforts to reduce emissions requires the participation of all emissions producing countries, including those in the West.
The customary energy life cycle includes exploration, development, extraction, processing, transmission and sometimes reclamation. An additional stage is needed: recycling.
Africa could be headed for a green growth scenario, where it curbs greenhouse gas emissions and grows economies through local manufacturing of green energy equipment.
Australia’s largest oil and gas company wants to drill for gas under a pristine coral reef.
Why do governments still give billions to encourage fossil fuel production? The answer is often to shore up energy supplies.
A green new deal is practical, politically possible, and the best chance we have to achieve a just carbon-zero transition in Canada.
South Africa’s new environment minister has a strong business background, but the country needs a renewable energy champion who’ll also protect communities from fossil fuel corporates.
Instead of training high school students for an industry that the world is transitioning away from, we need education on energy alternatives and ways of addressing climate change impacts.
Pump prices are a big deal in a country still hooked on fossil fuels.
Regardless of where in the world the oil would be burnt, local authorities must consider the greenhouse gas emissions before granting the planning permission.
A poll of 2000 people found that a traffic light labelling system for adverts promoting high-carbon products is a popular option.
Emotions help shape opinion on energy sources. Understanding this can allow us to design better zero-carbon policies.
Going nuclear in Australia would mean overcoming a set of almost impossible obstacles, from legal to financial, regulatory and workforce.
Hybrid vehicles are having a real moment in Australia and overseas. The problem is, they’re not as clean as we think.
By pledging no new fossil fuel licenses, the UK Labour party could aid a new international norm.
Two states have banned native forest logging, but it’s still happening in the others.
Costing new sources of electricity sounds simple. But it’s enormously complicated – and CSIRO’s GenCost report promises certainty it cannot deliver
Even the big oil companies are predicting global demand will decline within decades. With investment in oil exploration projected to decline too, New Zealand should be putting its energy elsewhere.
Without Japanese public funding, Australia’s LNG boom would have slowed
Top contributors
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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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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Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
