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Policy & Planning

Morrison refuses to discuss climate change as Tasmania burns, Townsville floods
After a particularly harsh summer of extremes, climate change is emerging as a key battleground in the upcoming election. But our PM doesn’t want to talk about it.
Giles Parkinson

Feb 5, 2019

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Policy & Planning

Australia shamed – again – on climate, as UNEP report calls for urgent action
Australia’s weak climate action highlighted in latest UNEP report that says countries should be tripling their pledges to limit warming to 2°C, and increase them 5-fold to meet 1.5°C target.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 28, 2018

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Policy & Planning

Coalition backing “big coal” over climate, says Sachs: “Unbelievably irresponsible”
US economist argues Australia should be exporting solar, not coal, and says Coalition government is backing fossil fuel interests. “What is the matter with these people?”
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 16, 2018

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CleanTech Bites

Australia gets out the wrecking ball, again, in international climate talks
Morrison government takes out the wrecking ball for crucial and complex climate talks in Bangkok to side with US and Japan in a dramatic attempt to weaken climate finance obligations, and upsets Pacific nations with its intransigence.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 7, 2018

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Other Good Stuff

Photo of the day: Striped Tesla visualises global warming
Tesla owner gives his EV its very own climate change makeover to start a conversation about global warming.
Bridie Schmidt

Jul 26, 2018

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Policy & Planning

Is ‘Zero Hour’ youth climate march a turning point, or more of the same?
Are children a source of hope where adults have failed? A youth climate march set for Washington DC this weekend raises the question: what new methods can young people use to boost climate action?
Marc Hudson

Jul 23, 2018

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Policy & Planning

How the 2016 bleaching altered shape of Great Barrier Reef
New research now reveals the damage that these coral losses caused to the wider ecosystem functioning of the Great Barrier Reef.
Selina Ward

Apr 19, 2018

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Commentary

Climate science deniers and conservative media have a new hero
Climate science deniers and conservative media have found a new “free speech” hero — an academic who is suing his own university and thinks the multiple human threats to the Great Barrier Reef are overblown.
Graham Readfearn

Mar 29, 2018

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Policy & Planning

New scenarios show how the world could limit warming to 1.5C in 2100
A paper in Nature Climate Change presents the results from a new modelling exercise using six different “integrated assessment models” (IAMs) to limit global temperatures in 2100 to below 1.5C.
Zeke Hausfather

Mar 7, 2018

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Policy & Planning

Coal comfort as Origin vows to halve emissions by 2032
Origin Energy locks in “science-based” target of 50% emissions reduction by 2032. Critics note this is also when its last, ageing coal plant is due to shut.
Sophie Vorrath

Dec 14, 2017

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Policy & Planning

It’s 30 years since scientists first warned of climate threat to Australia
In November 30, 1987 Australian scientists officially sounded the climate alarm. No one can say we haven’t been warned.
Marc Hudson

Nov 30, 2017

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CleanTech Bites

Australia under new pressure to get serious about climate in 2018
COP23’s “Talanoa dialogue” will put pressure on major economies – like Australia – to upgrade their commitments to limit global warming to “well below” 2°C.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 20, 2017

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