Climate change
The regional realignment on display at COP28
The annual climate talks get underway this week in the United Arab Emirates, marking consecutive negotiations held in the Arab world after the conference hosted last year by Egypt…
Driving the energy transition within ASEAN
The geography covered by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations is incredibly diverse. The land area totals approximately 4.5 million square kilometres, making ASEAN one of…
De-risking developing country debt
Climate change and debt present a toxic mix for many of the world’s most vulnerable developing countries. Disasters are becoming more frequent and severe. Yet many of the most…
Global Goal on Adaptation: Shaping a new framework at COP28
The annual UN climate talks, known this year as COP28, are just around the corner. A key item on the agenda will be setting a framework in support of the Global Goal on Adaptation…
Albanese is right to reject fossil fuel phaseouts
Earlier this month, a group of 15 countries, known as the High Ambition Coalition, called on leaders at the COP28 Climate Summit to deliver an “urgent phaseout of coal-fired power…
Economic diplomacy: Labor’s green security state rises
Tunnel vision
Last Sunday inner city Sydney residents got their first chance to walk inside a 24-kilometre labyrinth of intersecting underground road junction tunnels, which is…
COP28: Why a gender power divide threatens climate progress
What does gender have to do with global climate change negotiations?
Climate change is not an inherently gender discriminatory phenomenon – but its social impacts are. The…
Private finance cannot lead the global response to climate change
In response to the looming trillion-dollar global climate finance shortfall, a broad array of policymakers, international bureaucrats, environmentalists, and financial…
Commentary
The world energy outlook: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Originally published in Samoa Observer, 6 November 2023.
Commentary
Measuring the climate cost to Pacific development
Originally published in Samoa Observer, 4 November 2023.