Sustainability
Climate action: Public opinion is not the problem
A newly released IPSOS Global Trends Survey shows, according to a Guardian columnist, that Anglophone countries are particularly inclined towards climate denialism:
When you…
China: Climate wrecker or climate leader?
Lisa Williams is author of the new Lowy Institute Analysis, China's Climate Change Policies: Actors and Drivers. The views expressed here are her own and do not reflect the views…
Carbon tax repeal: Learning from Europe
In September 2010, the Australian Labor Party's Greg Combet sat down with The Australian's Samantha Maiden to explain why the coal industry 'absolutely' had a future. Given…
Australia's next climate push must come from the right
Interpreter alumnus Andrew Carr is hardly the first to point this out, but on the day the carbon tax is repealed in the Australian parliament, it is worth repeating this sentiment…
Australia's carbon price repeal: The global context
With the repeal today of Australia's two-year-old carbon pricing scheme, the Abbott Government has formalised Australia's transition from climate laggard to climate wrecker. But…
Australians shifting on climate change
A month ago my colleague John Connor wrote an op-ed for the Sydney Morning Herald welcoming the fact that for the first time in years, climate change was a major story coming out…
The economic impact of environmental crime
A new report from the UN Environment Programme claims that the monetary value of 'environmental crime' — logging, poaching, animal trafficking, illegal fishing, illegal mining,…
Asia's coal demand: You ain't seen nothing yet
Sam Roggeveen yesterday showed us how much demand for coal has risen in Asia during this century. Now consider what the future will hold.
A recent joint publication from the…
Climate change: Asia leads, but not in a good way
Vox has some remarkable — and depressing — charts on why the world is failing on climate change, all derived from BP's latest Statistical Review of World Energy. Half of the world…
Climate change: Australia takes it seriously, and so should Abbott
Australian public opinion on global warming since 2006. (Screen capture from the Lowy Institute poll interactive.)
One of the most striking findings from the 2014 Lowy Institute…