The Coalition’s climate policy is consistent with a very dangerous 3°C of global warming. But one party is comfortably consistent with keeping warming at safe levels.
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It wouldn’t be a modern Australian election campaign without the words “carbon tax” being thrown around.So lets clear a few things up.
With the world on track to blow the carbon budget for 1.5°C before the end of this decade, we must use offsetting carefully. It can no longer be a substitute for deep emissions cuts.
While carbon dioxide removal from the air is not a replacement for emissions reductions, it can supplement these efforts. Experts are continually researching the best ways to do this.
The proposal is likely to mean economic and diplomatic costs for Australia, and should ring alarm bells in Canberra.
Any climate gains from Japan’s shift will be wiped out entirely unless Australia moves to zero-emissions ammonia production.
Instead of asking about optimism, it’s time to ask what we as citizens are going to do about climate change.
Commercial flights could one day be propelled by sustainable fuels, renewable energy or hydrogen propulsion – but big challenges remain.
Such tension has played out over many decades between agricultural communities and coal companies. We can avoid history repeating itself if we urgently set the right policies and laws in place.
Greg Hunt is best known as Australia’s health minister. But before that he spent years thinking about mechanisms to get emissions down – and if elected, Labor plans to road test the one he introduced.
Labor has released their much anticipated “Powering Australia” climate policy, committing to reduce emissions by 43%.
Labor’s 2030 emission reduction target of 43% is more ambitious than the Coalition, but still falls well below what the science says is needed.
The Australian Labor Party has options on emissions reduction targets, but it is still running scared from the best mechanism to achieve them.
It’s 650 metres below the surface, across 6,000 square kilometres – and has been overlooked for far too long.
Why rely on unproven technologies when we can store carbon and cut emissions through Country-based and nature-based solutions?
For over a decade, the inclusion of oceans in climate talks has been piecemeal and inconsistent. And yet, the ocean is critical to help balance the conditions we need to survive.
We need to rapidly reduce global emissions before 2030. Developing hydrogen for low-emissions road transport won’t happen fast enough.
We can evaluate the plan’s sincerity through a lens of good practice policy making. So how does the government’s net-zero plan rate?
Stabilising Earth’s climate depends on a lot more than deals struck at conferences like Glasgow. But those agreements set a frame for real-world decisions.
Only in coming years will we know if COP26 was a real game-changer for the planet, or just empty promises and spin.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, International Studies, University of South Australia
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Lecturer, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
