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Learning to live in a world without progress
Optimistic about the trajectory of human society? That’s brave.
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1 Dec 2023
France as a convening power in the Pacific: The Nouméa SPDMM
A little known regional dialogue offers France and other countries a chance to contribute to the “Pacific way”. -
1 Dec 2023
COP28: A better climate for US-China relations?
As rivalry dominates cooperation, shared concern on the environment is still held out as a chance to stabilise ties. -
28 Nov 2023
The regional realignment on display at COP28
Middle East nations that built riches on fossil fuels are now presenting as friends for the Global South in an energy transition. -
24 Nov 2023
Driving the energy transition within ASEAN
Transportation is the life-blood of the regional economy but also a big contributor to environmental costs. -
24 Nov 2023
De-risking developing country debt
Debt suspension clauses should be rolled out by Western lenders, including Australia. -
23 Nov 2023
Global Goal on Adaptation: Shaping a new framework at COP28
Crafting a common metric might be a negotiator’s nightmare but it’s never been more urgent to help the world's most vulnerable. -
16 Nov 2023
Albanese is right to reject fossil fuel phaseouts
The politics of climate change has to be paired with grasping the economics, too. -
9 Nov 2023
Economic diplomacy: Labor’s green security state rises
From Chinese wind turbines to temporary foreign workers, Australia faces difficult intersections between domestic and foreign policy. -
9 Nov 2023
COP28: Why a gender power divide threatens climate progress
Global negotiations often sideline gender as a “women’s issue” rather than being essential to the response. -
9 Nov 2023
Private finance cannot lead the global response to climate change
Misplaced faith in private sector solutions delays the redistribution of trillions from developed countries and multilateral institutions. -
7 Nov 2023
Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership is a glass half full
Momentum is building, but global pledges for no new fossil fuel expansion come with a lot of caveats. -
2 Nov 2023
Measuring the climate cost to Pacific development
International assistance is not keeping up with intensifying rate and scale of disasters in the region. -
30 Oct 2023
The future isn’t what it used to be
Will a revolution be the way the world’s young people right the wrongs of the modern era? -
27 Oct 2023
Climate negotiations in a fossil fuel state: What to expect from COP28
Even with outcomes uncertain, there are three big topics likely to dominate the upcoming talks in Dubai. -
20 Oct 2023
Can UNESCO save the Great Barrier Reef?
Climate change is a problem that confounds the original World Heritage model. -
19 Oct 2023
Mongolia’s critical role in the global energy transition
Many suitors are eager to assist the country in realising its natural resources potential. But are all the deals win-win? -
18 Oct 2023
Crafting a new loss and damage fund
Harnessing philanthropic finance and emulating features from existing solutions could be a match made in heaven. -
16 Oct 2023
Global South activists seek a human rights framework for the climate crisis
A groundswell movement was evident as leaders gathered at the UN last month to make sure the people most affected are heard. -
3 Oct 2023
Five reasons why the government mustn’t cool its heels on an “Australian IRA”
What cause could be more important than the economic, energy, and environmental security of the nation and the future of the planet? -
22 Sep 2023
Libya’s unlearnable lessons
Many of the world’s current crises didn’t need to happen. Why the least responsible are still paying the price. -
19 Sep 2023
Global Stocktake: Unlocking trillions for climate action
The Paris Agreement’s assessment of climate policies finds some good news, but massive room for improvement. -
15 Sep 2023
Beijing’s plan for Taiwan challenges its offshore wind push
Fujian’s coast hasn’t kept up with wind power in other provinces – and military strategy seems to be blowing the other direction. -
13 Sep 2023
The crucial role for the Green Climate Fund – and why Australia should contribute
It’s vital to international climate solidarity and Australia rejoining is key to unlocking more global funding for the Pacific. -
4 Sep 2023
Climate justice: friendshoring, China’s supremacy and America’s IR Act
The goal of ensuring equitable outcomes through the energy transition must be global. -
31 Aug 2023
Cultural security in the Pacific: Why it matters for regional security
Of all the complex and evolving threats to the region’s cultural heritage, climate change remains the most calamitous. -
29 Aug 2023
Climate change: Counting the costs and opportunities
Australia needs to think beyond the price of transition and move quickly to become a renewable energy superpower. -
21 Aug 2023
Loss and damage: Thoughts on global climate fund reform
At COP28, an opportunity presents itself for a new funding model to help the world’s most climate vulnerable countries. -
18 Aug 2023
Stepping on the gas: Boosting Australia’s climate diplomacy in the region
Opponents of carbon capture plans need to look past ideology and think about the development costs to friends and neighbours. -
15 Aug 2023
The climate crisis demands sovereign debt justice
Why should low-income countries pay the price for climate change? -
24 Jul 2023
Understanding “loss and damage” from climate change across the Indo-Pacific
A concept that will become ever more familiar – in the courts, too – with more action needed to avoid irreversible consequences of climate change. -
17 Jul 2023
The cost-benefit of turning “dirty” shipping clean
The engines of global trade pump out enormous amounts of carbon and vulnerable Pacific islands are fighting for a change. -
14 Jul 2023
Setting the standard: An important step on the path to net zero emissions
A little-known international body has just helped set a global baseline for sustainability reporting. -
13 Jul 2023
Samoa and the Alliance of Small Islands States show climate security is also about loss and damage
Adaptation and mitigation strategies alone will not be enough to recover from the effects of climate change. -
11 Jul 2023
Existential risk is a whole-of-society challenge
From climate change and pandemics to nuclear war and extinction by AI, collective action will be imperative. -
7 Jul 2023
Paris climate summit: A new global financing pact takes shape
A failure? More a disappointment, and rich nations are at least starting to recognise a growing legitimacy deficit across the Global South. -
28 Jun 2023
Replenishing the Green Climate Fund
Delivering on a promise to help developing countries meet climate challenges remains critical. -
27 Jun 2023
To balance the Quad equation, India and Australia must drive an “Indo” focus
The Bay of Bengal is an emerging hotspot for non-traditional security challenges that cross the entire region. -
2 May 2023
Managing Japan-Australia energy tensions in a time of transition
Australia can’t afford to support Japan’s carbon emissions anymore than its own. -
1 May 2023
Finding opportunity in Asia’s net-zero transition
Australia will miss out if it doesn’t prepare for lower coal and gas exports. -
28 Apr 2023
How Indonesia can afford to cut coal-fired power – and faster
The Just Energy Transition Partnership can be a model for other countries to accelerate energy systems transformation. -
28 Apr 2023
South Korea can’t afford to be a Wally with water
And neither can the rest of the world. -
19 Apr 2023
Revisiting the Green Climate Fund in the Pacific
The Fund is providing important support but access remains a challenge. Australia re-joining could make the difference -
14 Apr 2023
A strategy for engaging for small developing states
If Australia is serious about climate change, it needs better relationships with island nations – near and far. -
6 Apr 2023
Australia can no longer justify fossil fuel funding
Canberra needs to sign onto the Glasgow Statement and join its allies in shifting public support to renewables. -
31 Mar 2023
Climate change: We know what to do, the Pacific needs us to act, now
Pacific Island nations are taking legal action as the latest IPCC report reveals things are still getting worse. -
23 Mar 2023
Ending the climate wars: the public’s mandate
Australians understand the need to act. As global scientists issue the clearest warning yet, can Labor deliver? -
20 Mar 2023
Indonesia’s nickel superhighway
There are vast opportunities to build new industries when you’re sitting on the globe’s largest reserve of rare earth. -
28 Feb 2023
Vietnam’s challenge to wean off coal
Fossil fuels have driven rapid growth but the country has pledged – with global help – to be carbon neutral by 2050. -
19 Jan 2023
The acid test: legal moves to force action on climate change
Small island states are now adopting a determined strategy of “lawfare” to bring attention to environmental threats.