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Friday, May 31, 2024

An Open letter to Telstra Super on fossil fuel investments, particularly Santos and Woodside Energy

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The following email to one of my superannuation funds, Telstra Super, was partly generated from the latest Market Forces Climate Wreckers Re...
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Guest Post: Prof Bill Hare on Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas

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Bill Hare , Murdoch University In announcing Australia’s support for fossil gas all the way to 2050 and beyond, Prime Minister Anthony A...
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Negotiations for Global Plastics Treaty 4th meeting in Ottawa conclude setting intercessional work for a Bridge to Busan.

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Photo Credit: Ottawa march for a Plastics Treaty coutesy FoEI via X The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Globa...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Dr Andrew Forrest says Climate Trigger and Carbon Solutions Levy needed as well as ending fossil fuel subsidies

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At the National Press Club of Australia Iron Ore magnate  Dr Andrew Forrest AO proposed three simple policies for Australia to become become...
Monday, January 29, 2024

IPCC plans 7th assessment cycle reports including Climate Change and Cities, Short-lived Climate Forcers, Carbon Dioxide Removal

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The 60th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met in Istanbul, Turkiye from 16–19 January 2024  (IPCC-60). This...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Australia on track for 82 percent renewables target by 2030; IEA notes global acceleration in Renewables

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Looking at 2023 renewables achieved a 38.4 percent average share of the electricity grid in Australia. This puts Australia just about on tra...
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

2023 set new global temperatures record at 1.48C anomaly above pre-industrial: Copernicus

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Last year, 2023, at 1.48C anomaly averaged over the whole year, came within a whisker of being 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures. The E...

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan acknowledges climate change a factor in extreme rain and flood events

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Premier Jacinta Allan has acknowledged that climate change is a factor in extreme rain and flood events, and that more needs to be done in p...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

Addressing shipping emissions with Professor Alice Larkin in interview with Kevin Anderson

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Shipping emissions is one of those niche areas, part of Transport emissions, that needs to be tackled. There is both a huge freight and logi...

Dr Jennifer Francis on weather whiplash, 2024 and beyond "Expect surprises, destruction, suffering..."

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New research has investigated abrupt swings in extreme weather in the Northern Hemisphere. This is being driven by Arctic amplified warming ...