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The deal also lays the groundwork for next year’s climate summit, to be held in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, where countries are meant to map out the next decade of climate action. The summit cut to the heart of the debate over financial responsibility of industrialised countries – whose historic use of fossil fuels […]
A flotilla of kayaks will be launched into Newcastle Harbour on Friday morning to protest coal exports after the protesters won an 11th-hour victory in the NSW Supreme Court overturning a government ban. Less than an hour before a marine exclusion zone for Newcastle Harbour was due to take effect, Justice Sarah McNaughton ruled on […]
Technological solutions must be scaled up to reach those who need them the most. Imagine how many lives could be saved if, for example, NASA’s latest AI model for the prediction of extreme weather was available in remote parts of the Global South. More importantly, we must empower women. This means funding climate education, which […]
On Saturday, Australian Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen will land in Baku with the task of driving the bogged-down finance negotiations to a conclusion, along with his Egyptian counterpart, Yasmine Fouad. It is a formidable task. One observer has already likened the current negotiating statement to World War I. “It is a difficult […]
Bowen says he has asked the Clean Energy Regulator to do what it can within its statutory functions to assist businesses and other regulators investigating these companies. “The Australian government expects all agents in this market to pay solar retailers properly,” Bowen says. “Solar retailers are often small and medium businesses doing great work to […]
The owners’ corporation took advantage of a council program to use an independent consultant to examine the building’s energy profile and suggest options, Chan said. The consultant recommended panels to power shared electricity usage including lighting in hallways and electric barbeques and gym equipment in the common area on the roof. This would then reduce […]