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Australia needs a fresh start on climate policy: CCA
Australia needs to ‘reset’ its climate policy discussion, the government’s advisory body on climate policy has said in its latest report.
James Whitmore

Dec 1, 2015

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Fact-checking the claim that Australian coal is clean
Australian thermal coal is higher in energy content, true, but its ash content is double Indonesia’s export-coal average.
Tim Buckley

Nov 27, 2015

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Australia can meet its Kyoto target – but “real emissions” will not fall to -5% by 2020
While we will officially meet our Kyoto target, Australian emissions will not fall to -5 per cent on 2000 levels by 2020.
Hugh Grossman

Nov 25, 2015

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Australia open to 1.5 °C climate target, “carbon neutral” in 2050
Australia is open to including a target of 1.5°C in Paris climate text, and a goal of “carbon neutrality” by 2050. How things have changed since Tony Abbott was replaced as prime minister. Such goals would result in an inevitable tightening of Australia’s own efforts on climate change.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 17, 2015

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Household battery storage to be economically attractive by 2020: ATA
Battery storage could be economically attractive in Sydney and Adelaide as early as 2018, and elsewhere in 2020.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 16, 2015

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Australia’s climate targets still out of reach after second emissions auction
Australia will struggle to make real emissions reductions without making structural change away from coal in the energy sector.
Peter Christoff

Nov 13, 2015

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Australian fossil fuel subsidies put at $5.6bn a year in new report
As Turnbull heads to Turkey’s G20 Summit, a new report reveals Australia still subsidising fossil fuel production to tune of $A5.6 billion a year.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 12, 2015

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Australia ranks 110 in world for renewables development, energy efficiency
Australia gets a ‘D’ for its backwards-looking renewable energy and grid efficiency policies in latest World Energy Council rankings.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 11, 2015

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CEFC invests another $50m to encourage car fleets to lower emissions
Clean Energy Finance Corporation puts $50m towards program making it cheaper and easier to adopt low-emissions fleet vehicles in Australia.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 10, 2015

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Churn and burn: The high price of a broken electricity market
Energy Australia’s move to send call centre jobs offshore is another example of Australia’s failed retail electricity market – and its cost to consumers.
Rob Campbell

Nov 6, 2015

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