A new parliament is urgently needed with the ability to act on the climate crisis and this must include young people whose future is at stake.
Category: Climate
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Nature’s right: a world with limits, to fossil fuels and population
The lessons of climate change are in the numbers, but the fundamental lesson is the most difficult one — on our human numbers.
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Sunday environmental round up
While humans struggle to do the right thing for themselves and their fellow Earth travellers, animals act to save the world.
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‘I see no financial obstacles to getting to net zero by 2050’
With COP26 looming, the expert in sustainable development explains how we can have both decarbonisation and robust growth.
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Net zero and carbon neutrality: Unscientific myths for an us and them world
The world is not united by the goal of net zero emissions by 2050. Each nation and region will have its own trajectory.
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Morrison’s plan has coal on the way out, with the future bright
We will have enough ultra-cheap, pollution-free electricity to power homes, vehicles and industry. All that’s needed is the courage to embrace it.
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Morrison’s 2050 carbon neutral ‘plan’ is deceptive and damaging
The slew of new gas and oil projects in Australia amounts to a pre-emptive strike to force the widespread use of carbon capture and storage. (more…)
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If the Nationals cared about farmers, they’d be concerned about land clearing
As the National Party focuses on opportunities to rort taxpayers, land clearing and global warming are costing farmers dearly.
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Morrison’s net zero deal with the Nationals won’t deal with climate change
The world will be watching, but on some reckonings, the Australian prime minister’s pledge at COP26 in Glasgow will be around 25 years too late.
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Australia is undermining the Paris Agreement, no matter what Morrison says
We need new laws to stop Prime Minister Scott Morrison undermining the international treaty central to combating climate change.
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Why the road to net zero looks smooth for drivers
An emissions ceiling on new vehicle sales would give Australia a fighting chance of reaching its 2050 net zero target — and provide big savings for drivers. (more…)
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How Australia could halve carbon emissions by 2030
Australia needs to cut its emissions by 45-50 per cent by 2030. Australia can realise this near-term target and grasp the opportunities that it also presents.
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Climate of unreality: time to call out the National Party
The Nationals have done a disservice to the farmers they claim to champion. They cannot be allowed to lead Australia’s response to the climate catastrophe.
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‘We share your alarm’ about climate change: Former PMs’ letter to Pacific leaders
Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull and Bob Carr have written to Pacific leaders to apologise for Australia’s inaction on climate change. This is their letter.
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Why we should halve carbon emissions by 2030
Net zero for carbon emissions in 2050 is meaningless without an ambitious target to halve these emissions in the next decade. In a two-part article, Michael Keating sets out why we need a more dramatic target.
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Sunday environmental round up.
I know Scotty is a regular reader, so this week’s round up is a handy cheat sheet to help him as COP26 in Glasgow beckons.
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Australia’s climate policies are a shambles — will our children forgive us? Part 2
It is too late for an orderly transition to a low-carbon future. It’s now imperative that we have scientifically literate, competent leaders acting for the common good. (more…)
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The deniers at The Australian with their faux commitment to climate change. Part 1
Not so fast with the good news. To avoid disaster for the planet, we need tougher measures. Nothing short of embracing a war footing will be enough.
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The speech the PM can use to wow his Glasgow audience
If Prime Minister Scott Morrison really wants to make an impression at COP26 in Glasgow, here is what he should say.
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Murdoch’s climate denialists must bear heavy responsibility for national failure
The insistence of denialists at The Australian that the 2050 emissions targets are beyond the world’s reach is damaging and flies in the face of science and technological progress. (more…)
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The Nationals and their dangerous search for relevance
Every deputy covets their moment in the sun. This can usually be arranged without harm. In the case of Barnaby Joyce little appears to come without harm. (more…)
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One minute to midnight: only fresh thinking can tackle climate and biodiversity crises
The world’s biodiversity will continue to deteriorate even if temperature rise was arrested. The question for the Glasgow summit is whether our emission-driving economic system can respond.
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Barnaby Joyce fills Scott Morrison’s climate policy vacuum
The responsibility for Australia’s climate and energy policies have effectively been handed over to a group of Nationals MPs. It’s a travesty, but it shouldn’t be a surprise.
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National Party is extorting the government for money and favours on climate change
After all the grandstanding, the National Party will make a deal on climate change policy. They are for sale.
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Zero chance of net zero: the human security challenge after 2050
We are condemned to a hot planet. A 4-degree warming is inevitable no matter what measures are taken, so humans must now consider how to cope with this reality.
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Sunday environmental round up.
Climate change creates internal refugees for countries least able to cope. Urgent action required to reduce methane emissions – but it’s easy. Australian companies’ carbon offsetting schemes are corporate greenwashing and nations’ emission reduction promises are just that … promises.
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Raise Warragamba dam, raise the risk to the environment
More housing, less habitat. More extinctions, less vegetation. With the raising of Australia’s largest urban water supply dam, Sydney would be further primed to emulate the flood disasters of Brisbane. (more…)
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Scott Morrison shames Australia with abdication to the National Party
Scott Morrison has abdicated any pretence of leadership on climate change, allowing the National Party — which has turned its back on farmers — to hold Australia to ransom.
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News Corp’s climate pivot perpetrates a new fraud and draws us closer to climate catastrophe
Not only does News Corp’s new climate change campaign come after years of spreading climate misinformation, it is also simply replacing its last fraud with another.
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Waking up to the Coalition’s climate change dinosaurs
While the press debates whether the prime minister will go to COP26, members of his government are living in a world where they believe their constituents aren’t worried about climate change.