South Australia tells gas industry the state is ‘at your disposal’
South Australia’s minister for energy and mining has told a conference of the oil and gas industry in Adelaide that his state government is “at your disposal”. Tom Koutsantonis made the extraordinary comments during his address to the Australian Petroleum…
Australia talking renewables at Petersberg Climate Dialogue 2023 while new gas projects launch
Senator Jenny McAllister at Petersberg Climate Dialogue The Petersberg Climate dialogue is ocurring in Berlin, Germany over 2-3 May 2023. About 40 countries are represented. Australia is represented by Senator the Hon Jenny McAllister, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and…
How Tasmania’s anti-protest laws drove Bob Brown back to frontline activism
This isn’t what Bob Brown had planned. At 78, the man who launched the Australian Greens and whose decades of activism remain a lodestar for much of the country’s conservation movement had imagined a shifting focus in the final act…
It’s messy and slow and drowned in noise, but a change in Australia’s climate policy is under way | Adam Morton
Climate scientists sometimes talk about moments when the “signal emerges from the noise” – when the human influence on heatwaves and downpours becomes greater than what could have been caused by natural changes alone. The same might be said for…
BHP and Rio Tinto among Australian heavy industry calling for urgent action on cutting emissions
Some of Australia’s biggest heavy industrial companies – including BHP, Bluescope, Rio Tinto and Woodside – say urgent action is needed from government, investors and business for Australia to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with its goal of limiting…
Australia passes most significant climate law in a decade amid concern over fossil fuel exports
Australia’s parliament has passed the country’s most significant emissions reduction legislation in more than a decade after the government won backing from Greens and independent MPs for a plan to deal with pollution from major industrial sites. After weeks of…
A climate policy that actually cuts emissions? It’s the reality that fossil fuel bosses and News Corp commentators can’t see | Temperature Check
At some stage, policies that governments put forward to reduce emissions need to do exactly what they say on the tin. This week’s deal between Labor and the Greens to improve a policy covering Australia’s biggest polluters does, finally, achieve…
Rise of ‘fuel-guzzling’ SUVs costing Australians $13bn extra at the pump per year, report finds
Surging SUV ownership means Australians are needlessly spending an extra $13bn a year to fuel their cars, and the trend is sending transport emissions into overdrive at the same time similar nations are reducing them. Analysis from the Australia Institute…
Albanese government faces decisions on coalmines that could add 16m tonnes of CO2 emissions annually
The Albanese government could have to make decisions on whether to approve up to 28 coalmine developments that would make it harder to meet targets set under its newly approved climate policy, according to a new analysis. A coalmine tracker…
It’s not perfect, but the Labor-Greens climate deal should limit emissions and fossil fuels. That matters
The safeguard mechanism is a better policy to deal with major industrial greenhouse gas emissions after a deal between the Albanese government and the Greens. It is not perfect, it is needlessly complicated and there are still things to be…
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