Why do governments still give billions to encourage fossil fuel production? The answer is often to shore up energy supplies.
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A green new deal is practical, politically possible, and the best chance we have to achieve a just carbon-zero transition in Canada.
South Africa’s new environment minister has a strong business background, but the country needs a renewable energy champion who’ll also protect communities from fossil fuel corporates.
Instead of training high school students for an industry that the world is transitioning away from, we need education on energy alternatives and ways of addressing climate change impacts.
Pump prices are a big deal in a country still hooked on fossil fuels.
Regardless of where in the world the oil would be burnt, local authorities must consider the greenhouse gas emissions before granting the planning permission.
A poll of 2000 people found that a traffic light labelling system for adverts promoting high-carbon products is a popular option.
Emotions help shape opinion on energy sources. Understanding this can allow us to design better zero-carbon policies.
Going nuclear in Australia would mean overcoming a set of almost impossible obstacles, from legal to financial, regulatory and workforce.
Hybrid vehicles are having a real moment in Australia and overseas. The problem is, they’re not as clean as we think.
By pledging no new fossil fuel licenses, the UK Labour party could aid a new international norm.
Two states have banned native forest logging, but it’s still happening in the others.
Costing new sources of electricity sounds simple. But it’s enormously complicated – and CSIRO’s GenCost report promises certainty it cannot deliver
Even the big oil companies are predicting global demand will decline within decades. With investment in oil exploration projected to decline too, New Zealand should be putting its energy elsewhere.
Without Japanese public funding, Australia’s LNG boom would have slowed
Environmentalists have long been sceptical of carbon capture and storage, which began in the oil and gas industry. But there’s nothing else like it for storing emissions from industry.
A major report in the U.S. finds damning evidence of decades of deceit by American oil and gas companies. The situation in Canada is likely not much different.
The Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline is a bad deal for Canadians, the federal government and our planet. The only question now is how best to mitigate the damage.
Without a green energy transition Australia won’t meet its emissions reductions promises. But despite punching above its weight for years, the electricity sector isn’t transforming quickly enough.
These electric aircraft take off and land vertically so they don’t need runways. And they promise a quieter, more accessible and less polluting form of short-distance air travel than helicopters.
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University
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Lecturer in Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo
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Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin 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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Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
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Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University
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Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter
