Converting to electric cars is going to take time. With transport being Australia’s fastest-growing source of emissions, action on all fronts – road, rail, sea and aviation – is needed.
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Victoria’s new renewable plan is welcome - but it relies on building unsexy and challenging new transmission lines across the state.
Tidal marshes can build up their soil to keep pace with sea-level rises – up to a point. It turns out the point when the marsh is drowned matches the average rise when global warming exceeds 1.5℃.
Grattan Institute analysis shows it’s possible to achieve a vastly lower-emissions electricity system in less than two decades – if governments can muster the courage.
Military emissions reporting is only voluntary. And what we cannot see, they will not cut.
Halving Australia’s 2030 target would see Australia become a valued and relevant party to negotiations at Glasgow, rather than a resented freeloader. Here’s how we could get there.
The National Party’s position on net-zero is wrong, for so many reasons. Not least, it’s a betrayal of rural Australia.
We know how to flatten the curve of rising greenhouse gas emissions. Doing it is another matter.
With an election possible next year, the Labor leader is faced with a near unsolvable puzzle.
A ground-breaking court case in the Netherlands could influence the way Canadian courts rule on the government’s actions on climate change.
‘Carbon sinks’ like forests and the soil have already been factored into the carbon budget – they should not be double-counted.
The long-awaited paper sets a positive tone. But it’s not clear if the government grasps the sheer scale or urgency of the emissions reduction task.
Canada keeps revising and updating its emissions targets, diverting attention from its failures to make any progress at all.
In all the strategies and tactics of the climate wars, the most disturbing development is that the carbon pricing became roadkill.
Making better use of existing building space is a neglected but essential way to cut our carbon emissions. The key is human behaviour. Good low-carbon citizens will help create good low-carbon cities.
Australia’s new emissions data for the December 2018 quarter show a rise on the previous quarter, although the raw figures actually dropped. Here’s what that all means.
Australia’s international reputation depends on rejecting the use of Kyoto carry-over. More importantly, so does our climate.
New Zealand’s government has released a bill that sets targets to bring long-lived greenhouse gases to net zero by 2050 and reduce emissions of the shorter-lived methane by 10% within a decade.
Contrary to the advice of the UK’s climate advisers, aiming for net zero before 2050 is credible – but the country must reassess how much its future is worth.
A new petition is urging state and federal governments to rein in Australia’s rampant land clearing, which worsens the risk of bushfires and threatens to undo the work of the Emissions Reduction Fund.
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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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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, University of Sussex
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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A/Prof., School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Practice, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
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Director of Workforce Development, Clean Energy Council, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
