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We already have most technologies Australia needs to make the clean energy transition. What’s missing is a plan to deploy them at huge scale.
Coal is the dirtiest fuel source – eliminating it is a priority for tackling climate change.
If we fail to balance the social impacts of climate change with responsible climate action, we risk substituting one kind of harm for another – and this would be a disaster of another kind.
Clean energy innovation, giving up coal, cutting methane and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26.
Here are four ways the current electricity system favours existing, higher emitting technologies. These must be overcome to rapidly cut Australia’s emissions.
Diverting water to a hydroelectric dam might seem eco-friendly, but the devastating consequences to local ecosystems cannot be ignored.
Australia’s business sector has recognised the profits to be made in the hydrogen transition. Acting quickly, and powering the shift with renewable energy, is key.
The world isn’t on track to avoid dangerous climate change, and this year’s climate conference, COP26, is crucial, a former senior UN official writes.
Achieving zero emissions in the energy sector by 2050 is technically and economically possible. Indonesia can modernise its economy through various green projects.
Electricity should be a main focus, but big improvements are also needed in transport, industry, agriculture and buildings.
The UK prime minister has been setting out ambitions to be a world leader in the coming hydrogen economy.
The Biden administration is proposing a big increase in offshore wind power. A former state official explains how regulators find the best sites and balance competing interests.
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 goal of carbon neutrality changes everything. Canada can no longer limit itself to solutions that partially reduce emissions here and there. The chosen solution must be zero emissions.
Major international donors, including the US and UK, are pledging to stop funding fossil fuel projects overseas, but they aren’t making the equivalent cuts at home.
Developments in the energy sector shouldn’t be reduced to technological sophistication. They should be guided by how they improve the livelihoods of the intended beneficiaries.
Problems with affordable, accessible energy could be mitigated by making more energy providers publicly owned.
India and China are the cheapest places to install rooftop solar, while the US, Japan and the UK are the most expensive.
The UK government sees a reliable and low-carbon solution to future energy crises in nuclear power.
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW Sydney
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie 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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Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Economics, Griffith University
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Research Fellow, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
