Paris Agreement
Survey reveals a world still hooked on coal despite best intentions
Despite the lofty goals of the United States and the European Union and the Paris Agreement targets, nearly three billion tonnes of new coal will be extracted each year if all the planned new mines are completed.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Britain’s top diplomat to Australia urges more climate ambition as Morrison vows to do it our way
Britain’s high commissioner to Australia Vicki Treadell says the world’s leading export nations can avoid potential carbon tariffs by lifting their level of climate ambition.
- by Rob Harris
Analysis
Emissions
Country’s biggest new fossil fuel project ‘more polluting than Adani’
It’s crunch time, with startling pollution figures revealed, a court challenge afoot, protesters hounding government and Woodside defending its green credentials.
- by Emma Young
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Big four
NAB chief ‘taking into account’ landmark climate report in oil and gas policy
NAB’s Ross McEwan responded to a letter by a coalition of activists claiming to represent 1 million Australians calling for an end to financing oil and gas projects.
- by Charlotte Grieve
Joe Biden to halt oil leases in Alaska’s Arctic refuge
Republicans and the oil industry have long been trying to open the wildlife refuge, considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich’in, for drilling.
- by Matthew Daly
Mathias Cormann calls for ‘ambitious’ plan to reach net zero emissions
Mathias Cormann, in his first speech as head of the OECD, has called for action on climate change including more sustainable growth out of the pandemic.
- by Shane Wright
Politicians have duty of care to protect children from climate harm, court finds
A million Australian children will be hospitalised at least once in their life for heat stress and the Great Barrier Reef will die along with the east coast’s eucalyptus forests should climate change not be halted, a federal court judge has said in a case brought against Environment Minister Sussan Ley by eight school students.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Climate policy
‘We’re burying banknotes’: Ross Garnaut rubbishes government’s $600m gas plant
The economist has likened the funding of “redundant” energy capacity to Keynes’ banknote theory of burying money so the unemployed can dig it up to stay productive.
- by Latika Bourke
Climate concerns resume rise as coal mine ban draws support, Lowy says
The majority of Australians want action on climate change even if it costs them significant money, with the longest-running poll of attitudes also showing almost two-thirds would back a ban on new coal mines.
- by Peter Hannam
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Angus Taylor
Foreign diplomats hear critical report on Australian climate policy
An Australian think tank has told the overseas diplomatic corp in Canberra that Australia is not decarbonising its economy despite meeting “easy” climate targets.
- by Nick O'Malley
Europe takes on cheap flights and landlords in race to net zero emissions
Trains instead of flights, fossil fuel ad bans and charging landlords for tenant’s heating emissions will be legislated in parts of Europe.
- by Latika Bourke