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The US shows how climate change can become a partisan battleground. Britain still has the institutions and public support to avoid the same fate.
In four right-wing newspapers, more than 70% of opinion articles contained at least one misleading statement.
Green policies including wind farms are turning into a battleground for the Welsh election.
The most vulnerable places are, overwhelmingly, the same places that suffered industrial decline in the 1980s.
The South African government and coal industry need to move fast to set up a plan to turn old coal mines and power stations into job-creating hubs after they close.
South African homes need two-way meters so that they can feed extra solar power from home systems and electric vehicles back to the grid.
Articles on net zero used to always explain the scientific background. But not anymore.
Decarbonisation is not just about changing fuels. It involves a change in our pace of living and adjusting expectations.
Ley says the Opposition was negotiating on the environment laws with the government into early Thursday – just before Labor announced a deal with the Greens.
The government finally got through its environmental laws, doing the deal with the Greens, leaving the Liberals hung out to dry.
Some African countries have consumer protection laws that they could use to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for pretending to be green.
Producing food has a climate cost. But it doesn’t have to. Farmers can cut emissions, boost nutrients and restore nature – while making their farms more resilient
The South Australian Liberal senator says he’s ‘dubious’ about being able to sell the Coalition’s new policy to voters – describing it as ‘carefree with emissions’.
In opposition, the Coalition has pledged to walk away from net zero. That would mean cutting many Labor policies and leaving major gaps.
The Coalition parties on Sunday formally endorsed a joint policy on climate and energy that drops the commitment to net zero.
Despite the Coalition’s decision reversal on net zero, the momentum on the clean energy transition is unstoppable.
Ley says the Liberals will prioritise affordable, reliable energy, but provided no estimates for claims they’d bring down energy prices.
As Liberals prepare for Wednesday’s party meeting to discuss climate policy, Sussan Ley might be wondering why she stood for leader in the first place.
In abandoning net zero, Nationals leaders claimed Australia is cutting emissions twice as fast as other rich countries. That’s not the case
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Climateworks Centre Country Lead, Australia, Monash University
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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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Adjunct Professor of Transport, University of Technology Sydney
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor of Law, Deakin University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures, University of Leeds
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Head of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford
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Chair of Energy and Climate Governance, University of Manchester
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Senior Research Scientist, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University