The Australian Labor Party has options on emissions reduction targets, but it is still running scared from the best mechanism to achieve them.
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It’s 650 metres below the surface, across 6,000 square kilometres – and has been overlooked for far too long.
Why rely on unproven technologies when we can store carbon and cut emissions through Country-based and nature-based solutions?
For over a decade, the inclusion of oceans in climate talks has been piecemeal and inconsistent. And yet, the ocean is critical to help balance the conditions we need to survive.
We need to rapidly reduce global emissions before 2030. Developing hydrogen for low-emissions road transport won’t happen fast enough.
We can evaluate the plan’s sincerity through a lens of good practice policy making. So how does the government’s net-zero plan rate?
Stabilising Earth’s climate depends on a lot more than deals struck at conferences like Glasgow. But those agreements set a frame for real-world decisions.
Only in coming years will we know if COP26 was a real game-changer for the planet, or just empty promises and spin.
The Morrison government’s great refusal to take action on climate may come back to haunt Australia when we seek the cooperation of other countries.
We cannot claim that inducing others to reduce emissions gives us a moral license to emit in their place.
Heading into the final days of the Glasgow summit, the goal of limiting heating below 2°C looks attainable, and 1.5°C is still within reach. There is still room for hope.
But the government will use the legislation for the fund to try to wedge Labor.
It’s encouraging to see the Morrison government move past its claim electric vehicles would ‘end the weekend’. But the new plan is not the national electric vehicle strategy Australia deserves, and badly needs.
The Morrison government has invested more money to encourage electric vehicles, but won’t provide concessions for consumers.
We already have most technologies Australia needs to make the clean energy transition. What’s missing is a plan to deploy them at huge scale.
Week one in Glasgow has delivered more climate action than the world promised in Paris six years ago. But progress still falls well short of what’s required to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Leaders of the world’s wealthiest 20 countries failed to reach any major commitments on climate action, including a timeline to phase out fossil fuels.
When Prime Minister Scott Morrison returns from the Glasgow climate summit, he must start a proper national conversation on net-zero.
Labor is not due to announce its full climate plan until after international climate talks in Glasgow.
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Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW
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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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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Transport Technology and Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology
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Climateworks Centre CEO, Monash University
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Climateworks Centre Country Lead, Australia, Monash University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Adjunct Professor of Transport, University of Technology Sydney
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Adjunct Professor of Energy, Murdoch University
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Senior lecturer, Australian National University
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Honorary Fellow, Australian Museum