The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The existential battle against global heating requires connecting science, politics and community life, often much harder than it looks Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast A lot of the time, politics feels incremental. But every now and again, a big thing happens suddenly.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 13, 2022

The sprint for a new prime minister marks the latest act in the UK’s political drama. DeSmog had previously reported that the donor, Michael Hintze , an Australian hedge fund manager who has provided financial support to the Global Warming Policy Foundation, is set to be appointed to the House of Lords. Foreign Secretary.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Prof Lesley Hughes and others say there is ‘cognitive dissonance’ between Labor’s stated commitment to the climate crisis and its policies The Australian government is “missing half the equation” in acting on the climate crisis by backing a shift to renewable energy but having no plan to get out of fossil fuels, according to an author of a new scientific (..)

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 24, 2024

Modelling results presented to the state government late last year and obtained by Guardian Australia showed that the state’s carbon emissions in 2024 are on track to reach 91.5m Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 24, 2024

Fewer than one in 10 investors were exploring new investments in nuclear technology in the survey of the Investor Group on Climate Change, whose 100 members include super funds and asset managers looking after the funds of 15 million Australians.

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Climate change Investment Technology Energy 91

The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 21, 2024

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. It comes as the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has called Labor MPs and senators to Canberra on Wednesday for a snap caucus to discuss further cost-of-living relief measures put forward by Treasury.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 18, 2024

We should focus on rooftop solar – Australians love it A missing element from much of the debate about whether Australia should embrace nuclear power is that – unless the Labor rank-and-file have an extraordinary change of heart – the issue is already dead on arrival. John Howard and Scott Morrison knew the score on this.

Nuclear Power 69

Nuclear Power Wind power Solar Power Politics 69

The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Australia’s climate minister says summit must aim to keep 1.5C goal alive so Pacific countries are not ‘swallowed by the seas’ The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has told nearly 200 countries at the Cop28 summit that the use of fossil fuels in energy systems must end.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 24, 2024

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. And on Monday Labor introduced amendments to add safeguards to the offshore gas bill after widespread concerns , including from within it own ranks.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 10, 2024

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 22, 2024

Results highlight the difficulties government faces in selling energy transition to sceptical public Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Voters have backed Anthony Albanese’s Future Made in Australia plan but are under the misapprehension that renewables are the most expensive form of power.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Scientists say that’s not backed by credible evidence Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Some pictures show a whale lifeless on a beach. After questions from Guardian Australia this week, the advertising company oOh!media

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 9, 2024

Energy minister says average build time for a nuclear plant in US is 19 years and giving up on renewables would be a ‘massive economic own goal’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The federal energy minister, Chris Bowen, has dismissed Coalition MP Ted O’Brien’s (..)

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 7, 2024

The prospect of Australia trying to build nuclear reactors at soon-to-be-closed coal plants raises many questions. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. NuScale Power announced on Wednesday that it had dropped plans to build a long-promised “carbon free power project” in Idaho. It blamed the decision on a lack of subscribers for the plant’s electricity.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 23, 2024

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. But a bipartisan group of politicians and transparency advocates is not convinced and has demanded more information.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 16, 2024

The prime minister’s promised “Future Made in Australia” act is clumsily named, and the announcement last week had few details, but the idea – that the government will need to use its weight to help develop green industries if the country is to make a rapid transition from fossil fuels to a clean economy – has been a long time coming.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Fresh figures from the Climate Council, released on Wednesday, show Australians are spending more at the bowser to drive the same distance as their American and European counterparts, in countries where fuel efficiency standards have been in place for years.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 24, 2024

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 13, 2024

The treasurer says there must be “generational change” in Australia to match similar major green economy programs being undertaken by other nations including the US. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 17, 2024

What better way to test if Australians are up for nuclear energy than by asking them: Do you support removing the current ban? Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast When the Coalition was paralysed by whether or not to legislate marriage equality , it turned to the wisdom of the people.

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The Guardian: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. But as workers and system managers scrambled to get power back online, some commentators and Coalition MPs were unable to resist the urge to somehow blame renewable energy.

Energy 78

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 18, 2024

The Coalition wants Australia to lift its ban on nuclear power, with leader Peter Dutton saying his plan would involve building as many as six power plants. Nuclear power is shaping up as a major issue leading into the next federal election. But the government has dismissed the idea.

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Nuclear Power Government Politics Energy 62

The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 11, 2024

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. We are only just beginning to appreciate its effects on our economy, agriculture, health and culture.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 7, 2024

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 7, 2023

NDIS minister says he regrets some of the media coverage focusing on Australians with autism Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast James Ashby to stand for One Nation in Queensland seat James Ashby , the chief of staff to One Nation leader Pauline Hanson , will stand for the party in the seat of Keppel at next year’s (..)

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

AustralianSuper, cbus, HostPlus, CareSuper, HESTA and UniSuper have co-authored a new report with Australian fund IFM Investors calling for more favourable investment conditions underwritten by taxpayers to unlock private capital for the domestic transition to net zero emissions.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

At the Australian Renewables Industry summit in Canberra on Monday unions, the renewable energy sector, community and investor groups will call for the package to respond to massive investment overseas including the US’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Australian Energy Market Operator/CSIRO report found renewables was the cheapest form of power. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There is an unprecedented global swing towards solar and wind power under way If you’re searching for some hope on the climate crisis before the Cop28 UN meeting in Dubai this month, try this: China may be changing direction on pollution earlier than expected.

Wind power 75

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said last year she planned to introduce legislation in 2023 to reform the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act after major reviews found the law was failing and Australian nature was in poor and deteriorating health.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 10, 2024

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What’s the biggest myth in Australian politics? There are certainly lots of candidates, but for me, it is that Barnaby Joyce enjoys widespread support in New England. I understand the notion that 52.46% of the primary vote doesn’t equate to widespread support is a bit confronting.

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Nuclear Power Energy Energy Politics 80

The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There must be trade-offs if we are to get serious about cutting emissions – and phasing out gas appliances is one of the easiest In the Climate Change Authority’s inaugural annual review of Australia’s emission reduction progress, it warned us: “There are some hard decisions and trade-offs we, as a society and as individuals, need to make together (..)

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2022

The free-trade agreement inked between the UK and Australia last year prompted widespread criticism from environmentalists and been dubbed as a disaster for both climate policy and British farmers, with critics fearing it will undermine Britain's food, animal welfare, and environmental standards. The government.

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. Uncontracted supplies of the fossil fuel had also been diverted to the domestic market.

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