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Policy & Planning

The 3-minute story of 800,000 years of climate change, with a sting in the tail
A short video to put recent climate change and carbon dioxide emissions into the context of the past 800,000 years.
Ben Henley & Nerilie Abram

Jun 13, 2017

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Coal

Does best CCS power station in world provide model for Australia?
Josh Frydenberg over-egged the success of a CCS plant he visited in US, and now he’s done the same in Australia with new CEFC mandate.
Simon Holmes à Court

May 31, 2017

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Coal

Australian stock market resembles carbon bomb waiting to explode
S&P/ASX All Australian 50 found to have world’s highest level of embedded fossil fuel emissions and greatest percentage of coal-derived revenues.
Sophie Vorrath

May 12, 2017

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Commentary

Australia could follow California and reach climate goals without EIS
Australia can achieve its 2030 climate target by relying on energy productivity gains and tighter controls on high emitting industries – and without legislating an EIS.
Reputex

May 11, 2017

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Policy & Planning

Coalition sets climate parameters, as two more quit key advisory body
Coalition publishes climate policy discussion paper amid CCA resignations, claims of right-wing, anti-science bias.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 24, 2017

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Emissions intensity scheme – another act in tragic comedy of errors
The EIS proposed by Labor and others is a wasteful rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul scheme designed to favour gas, and which will lift energy prices more than they need be.
Bruce Mountain

Feb 27, 2017

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Coal

Why Coalition’s “clean” coal plans are just a smoke dream
Coalition’s “clean coal” plant would be costlier and dirtier than alternatives, and on top of that would require billions of dollars of government indemnities and guarantees.
Giles Parkinson

Feb 20, 2017

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Featured

Victoria steps up climate ambition. Turnbull takes two steps back
In the face of an increasingly divided Turnbull government, Victoria’s Labor government has upped the ante on climate action, pledging to cut state emissions by up to 20 per cent within three years on the road to zero net emissions by 2050.
Sophie Vorrath

Jan 30, 2017

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Coal

3 reasons why fossil fuel companies should disclose their reserves
Not a single fossil fuel company in the world discloses potential emissions from their reserves – and that is a big problem.
Stephen Russell

Dec 15, 2016

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Policy & Planning

Global emissions fall for first time on shift away from coal in China, US
The growth in global production of greenhouse gases has decelerated over the past few years, with 2015 seeing the first actual reduction, of 0.1% compared to 2014 levels.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Dec 14, 2016

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Why power prices are higher without a carbon price
The market is now pricing wholesale electricity contracts for next year at levels higher than what prevailed when the carbon price was in place.
Tristan Edis

Dec 8, 2016

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Gaping holes appear in Turnbull’s Direct Action climate policy
We keep seeing more evidence that Direct Action is not working, and that our greenhouse pollution is going up.
Suzanne Harter

Nov 28, 2016

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