The Greens wanted Australia to rule out new coal and gas projects. Instead, we have a hard cap on emissions – and that should make many fossil fuel projects unviable
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For the first time, Australia has moved to cap natural gas prices in a bid to stop energy price pain. Is the cap too high – or was it necessary to mollify the producers?
Energy bills are about to hurt. But what can the government actually do to ease the pain?
Thanks one of the treasurer’s most trusted confidants, we can now piece together what the government’s likely to do next about rising energy bills. Here’s what I expect to see over the next month.
Two-thirds of those surveyed back capped gas prices, an extra tax on gas exporters that would subsidise prices, or rules requiring Australian gas to be reserved for Australian use.
Offsetting carbon emissions sounds great. In practice, it’s often used to maintain the high-emissions status quo.
Pipeline rupture may cause EU gas demand to peak sooner than expected.
Hopes that prices will ease are probably wishful thinking.
There’s been a lot of talk about pulling the gas trigger. The problem is, the trigger is too slow and too easy to avoid.
The energy crisis is hitting the east coast hard. But Western Australia is sailing through – because of government intervention in the market.
We arrived at this moment thanks to a series of policy decisions under previous governments – state and federal - that left Australia’s energy system unable to cope with the demands placed on it.
Australia already imposes a super-profits tax of 40% on gas producers, but very little is paid. Yet we know how to simplify the system, so we’re not gifting billions to multinational companies.
State and federal energy ministers have agreed to give the regulator more powers but say it won’t solve all the problems.
Cooking with wood and charcoal can raise indoor air pollution to dangerous levels.
Has Putin hurt Russia by jolting Europe’s shift away from fossil fuels into high gear?
Supporting new fossil fuel projects is completely inconsistent with the broader goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 - and will not improve energy security.
Plus, the Beijing Winter Olympics are using 100% artificial snow: what does that mean for the environment, and the athletes? Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
An energy expert explains the challenges of finding alternative natural gas supplies for Europe in case of a Russian cutoff over Ukraine.
For a net-zero plan not to include a strategy to phase out this enormous contribution to climate change is an abrogation of responsibility.
Extreme weather is behind much of the crisis, but it will make the transition to new energy sources more complicated.
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University
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Senior Lecturer, Business Law and Taxation Dept, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Energy Advisor, formerly, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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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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Honorary Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Chief Research Scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies - Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering, University of Southampton
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Fellow - Melbourne Law School; Senior Researcher - Climate Council; Associate - Australian-German Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Faculty, Graduate Program on the Environment, Evergreen State College
