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It’ll be impossible to replace fossil fuels with renewables by 2050, unless we cut our energy consumption

Image: Shutterstock Energy consumption – whether its heating your home, driving, oil refining or liquefying natural gas – is responsible for around 82% of Australia’s greenhouse...

Historic new deal puts emissions reduction at the heart of Australia’s energy sector

Image: Shutterstock Australia’s energy ministers last Friday voted to make emissions reduction a key national energy goal, in a major step forward in the clean energy...

How climate-friendly is an electric car? It all comes down to where you live

Image: Shutterstock If you’re thinking about buying an electric vehicle, whether due to soaring fuel prices or to lower your greenhouse gas emissions, where you...

Labor’s 2030 climate target betters the Morrison government, but Australia must go much further, much faster

  Image: Lucas Coch/AAP The Labor opposition has pledged to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 43% this decade based on 2005 levels, claiming the...

The embarrassingly easy, tax-free way for Australia to cut the cost of electric cars

  Image: STRMX/AP Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he wants to keep prices down. Without his party in power, “you’re going to see petrol prices go up,...

Global emissions almost back to pre-pandemic levels after unprecedented drop in 2020, new analysis shows

  Image: Shutterstock Global carbon dioxide emissions have bounced back after COVID-19 restrictions and are likely to reach close to pre-pandemic levels this year, our analysis released...

Why tackling deforestation is so important for slowing climate change

  Image: Dudarev Mikhail/Shutterstock Humanity injects an almost incomprehensible 42 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere every year. The majority of this comes from...

Australia’s stumbling, last-minute dash for climate respectability doesn’t negate a decade of abject failure

  Picture: Lukas Coch/AAP Prime Minister Scott Morrison has just announced that Australia will adopt a target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The...

Barnaby Joyce has refused to support doubling Australia’s 2030 emissions reduction targets – but we could get there so cheaply and easily

  Image: Shutterstock As Prime Minister Scott Morrison tries to land a Coalition climate policy deal ahead of the international COP26 summit in Glasgow, Nationals leader...

Have Your Say On The Corporate Emissions Reduction Transparency Report

The Clean Energy Regulator is inviting views on the guidelines for the Corporate Emissions Reduction Transparency (CERT) report in a second public consultation. The CERT report has been co-designed with the industry...
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