Emissions
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Opinion
China's great green leap backwards raises environmental red flag
Beijing's quest for energy security means it's building a new coal plant every two weeks and adding more gigawatts of coal power each year than the rest of the world combined while claiming to be a leader in renewable power.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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We don't have to choose between the economy and lower emissions
There are people who think we can’t focus on reducing emissions because the only thing that counts is the economy, and there are those who think the opposite. But this is a false dichotomy.
- by Alan Finkel
Opinion
Opinion
The problems climate activists still worry about are already solved
Environmental rebels appear not to have noticed, but the free market is cracking climate change with a speed and efficiency that they could never achieve.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Opinion
Pollution
Our dirty fuel is a bigger killer than COVID-19: how Australia fails on car emissions
The human and economic costs of vehicle pollution are horrifying. Our government has set standards that are too low.
- by John Hewson
Earnings season
Whitehaven profit slumps 95% as Australia's coal prices collapse
Whitehaven, one of the nation's largest coal miners, has seen its profits nearly wiped out as coal prices collapsed in the pandemic.
- by Nick Toscano
Opinion
Trade wars
Biden's green power play adds a new twist to the Cold War with China
The Democrats' $2.8 trillion blitz on clean energy is as much a bid for superpower supremacy as it is about climate change. It is aimed directly at China.
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Perth
Harmful vehicle emissions to soar as Perth commuters ditch public transport
Traffic along Perth main roads has soared beyond pre-pandemic levels as commuters continue to shun public transport in favour of driving to the CBD.
- by Marta Pascual Juanola
CEFC
Clean energy agency set for 'real evolution' in post-COVID economy
Australia’s clean energy investment agency is broadening its focus from renewables to hydrogen and the electricity grid to help the economy recovery from COVID.
- by Mike Foley
ANU
Carbon-pricing countries achieve 'massive' emissions reductions: study
Countries that put a price on carbon have achieved far higher emissions reductions than countries that do not.
- by Mike Foley
Food & drink
Burger King vows to tackle climate change by changing cows' diets
The fast food chain is staging an intervention with its cows.
- by Michelle Chapman
Paris Agreement
Greens announce ambitious new emissions targets in line with Paris
In a bid to push the major parties to embrace deeper cuts to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, the Greens have targeted net zero emissions by 2035.
- by Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley