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Environmentalists and climate hawks are cheering, but many experts aren’t excited about the state making rooftop solar panels mandatory on most new homes beginning in 2020.
Deriving fuel from trees costs more than wind and solar power and it emits more carbon than coal. There are many heated debates about this kind of energy, known as forest or woody biomass.
The pioneering legislation is ten years old – and the latest science means it now does not go far enough.
Scientific problems require evidence-led solutions. A new proposal to create a federal environmental decision-making body would take some of the politics out of climate policy.
Research suggests that speakers of “present-tensed” languages such as German and Finnish - in which the future can be describe in the present tense - are more likely to support stronger climate policies.
Barnaby Joyce had a long history of opposing climate action. His successor Michael McCormack seems to think the same way, despite climate being a growing threat to the Nationals’ rural voters.
Australia’s flagship climate policy, has spent more than $2 billion on emissions reductions, yet big businesses could wipe all this out. Time to resurrect the idea of a simple carbon tax.
The European Investment Bank’s funding of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline will harm the climate and makes little financial sense.
Last year was a vicious one for climate and energy politics. And with a South Australian election and various other federal decisions in the offing, 2018 looks like being similarly rancorous.
The federal government’s keenly awaited review of Australia’s climate policies continues a longstanding bipartisan traditional of weak policy development in this area.
Politicians are always being told to trust what climate scientists are telling them. But can you have too much of a good thing? What happens when the exchange of ideas becomes too cosy?
A look at what actually happened at the recent climate talks, and some pointers for the year ahead.
As delegates meet in Bonn for the latest rounds of climate talks, civil society, NGOs, cities, regional governments and businesses, are stepping up to work together toward climate goals.
What if the world really got serious about meeting global climate goals? Doing the math on current emissions and the pace of energy transitions shows how quickly fossil fuels need to be phased out.
And one thing that probably will, but won’t make much difference.
While Tony Abbott’s London climate speech has been widely criticised, research suggests his views have long had a sympathetic ear in Australia’s coal heartland.
Tony Abbott will deliver a speech to the Global Warming Policy Foundation. Has the human weathervane stopped spinning? What does it mean for climate politics?
The Turnbull government is still tying itself in knots over the future of coal, as literally decades of policy turmoil on climate and energy continue to roll on.
While climate denialism impedes policymaking in both the US and Australia, there are key differences in their political and public cultures.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Adjunct professor, Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
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Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
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Professor of Political Science, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Melbourne Climate Futures initiative, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Senior Industry Fellow, Environment and Planning, RMIT University
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Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford