A new poll suggests a growing complacency about Australia’s climate inaction.
Chart of the day: Australia’s growing climate complacency
Scott Morrison’s climate and Covid19 policy: It’s not a race
Scott Morrison’s defining failure as prime minister is his inability to treat any crisis as urgent. That has caused failure for climate and Covid.
Why Alan Finkel is wrong about climate action
Resistance is not futile, as Alan Finkel might have us believe. There are so many reasons why climate action can and must go much faster.
UK’s climate pledges lead the world, but its policy falls badly short
UK government has made historic climate promises in the past year, for which it deserves credit. But it has been too slow to follow these with delivery.
Coal-powered bitcoin is an environmental disaster
The latest episode in the process of trying to present Bitcoin as if it’s not only clean but vital to clean power development is particularly bad.
Net-zero targets can be good – here’s what should be demanded for Australia
There’s little chance Australia’s government will make a high-quality net zero target, but increasingly there is work showing exactly what a good target looks like.
An offset loophole could be the saviour for high emissions fossil hydrogen
Will hydrogen be a blessing or a curse? Probably a bit of both, but the fossil fuel industry is fighting for much more of the second.
New renewables now beating most operational coal: IRENA report
A new report from an international renewables agency shows that new renewables are beating existing coal on price, all around the world.
Will Matt Kean’s EV policy really make NSW the Norway of Australia?
Is Matt Kean’s ambitious new EV policy enough to make NSW the Norway of Australia? Is that even the right baseline to be using?
Australia will likely adopt a net-zero target by COP26. It will be a bad target
It doesn’t matter who’s leader of the Nationals – the Morrison government’s net-zero greenwashing narrative is already written and is very, very easy to predict.
