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.
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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. -
11 Jan 2023
Crossing the carbon border
International trade is skewed in favour of exporters who pay less for carbon emissions. The EU wants to change that. -
13 Dec 2022
2022: A global turning point
Looking at trends and contours that have coalesced this year to make international politics more contested and unpredictable. -
22 Nov 2022
Europe must fully embrace nuclear energy
With Russia’s stranglehold on the region’s energy, it is time to add a second shade of green. -
18 Nov 2022
Strengthening disaster resilience in the Pacific
The aftermath of Tonga’s massive volcanic eruption holds valuable lessons as climate change risks also grow. -
14 Nov 2022
The race for lithium
Global energy transition relies on a resource that Australia holds in abundance. But supply chains and policy are key. -
9 Nov 2022
Climate change: governance on the highway to hell
If wealthy states can’t agree on compensating the world’s most environmentally ravaged, things are looking grim. -
29 Sep 2022
Water scarcity challenges China’s development model
With its industry and agriculture reliant on diminishing H2O, a crisis looms for the world’s most populous country. -
21 Sep 2022
Making sense of Indonesia’s fuel riots
Cutting subsidies is a step in the right direction, but a more robust social safety net is ultimately a better fix. -
21 Sep 2022
Guterres whistles in the wind
Yes, “our planet is burning”, yet those leaders with the power to act are stubbornly guarding their own little patch. -
22 Aug 2022
Blue economy may be the key to South Asia's upswing
Why governance, blue bonds and women are critical to a thriving ocean-based economy. -
27 Jul 2022
The Quad needs a futures focus
A better – and public – understanding is needed of the cascading effects of regional challenges. -
30 Jun 2022
In a puzzling trend, concern about climate change has plateaued
Latest polling shows emissions reduction may not have been the hot button issue that swayed the Australian electorate. -
28 Jun 2022
A minute to midnight: reversing environmental tipping points
Planetary boundaries and the role they play in global security are not as remote as they sound. And it’s time to listen. -
27 Jun 2022
Indonesia-Australia climate change cooperation begins with the ocean
Mangroves, reefs and fish stocks – the building blocks of stronger approach by both countries to address global warming. -
14 Jun 2022
Hyundai takes the driver’s seat in Indonesia’s EV market
With net zero emissions targets looming, Southeast Asia’s biggest car market is setting the pace on electric vehicles. -
25 May 2022
Pacific youth: challenges today need the leaders of tomorrow
On climate, geopolitics, recovering from pandemic, and more – it’s vital to engage youth populations across the region. -
21 Apr 2022
Solomons security pact: Sogavare, China, and Australia
There is no shutting China out of the South Pacific, but if Australia gets real on climate the game will truly change. -
25 Mar 2022
The logistical challenge of responding to disaster
Climate change will not only make for more frequent emergencies – it will change how and from where to provide relief. -
24 Mar 2022
Climate change in the Pacific – what Australia needs to do
Canberra’s insipid approach to climate action undermines trust and endangers vital interests close to home. -
17 Mar 2022
Defence’s bullet for disaster isn’t silver, it’s brass
Rushing in with troops in emergency response could make matters worse at home and muddle efforts to engage the region. -
16 Mar 2022
Climate change: less space between one disaster and the next
Simple mathematical errors and a hesitancy to open the wallet are just the beginning of the world’s climate problems. -
23 Feb 2022
Transforming Australian diplomacy for climate leadership
Practical measures will foster enduring regional ties beyond the immediate challenge of responding to global warming. -
1 Feb 2022
How to speak green: Europe’s new energy taxonomy
A stoush about sustainable energy criteria reveals tensions, anxieties – and increasing French influence. -
14 Jan 2022
Australia should build its green infrastructure presence
The region is taking an increasingly dim view of efforts seeking to protect the fossil fuel trade. -
27 Dec 2021
A climate changed – Best of The Interpreter 2021
An economic shift ahead of crucial negotiations, yet still the world struggled with the consequences of global warming. -
3 Dec 2021
Only a truly national security strategy can forestall disaster
It’s not China but a changing climate that will most threaten Australia’s way of life in the century ahead. -
26 Nov 2021
Trouble on the Mekong
Countries along one of Asia’s longest rivers need to address the effects of climate change and overdevelopment. -
24 Nov 2021
India, China cop finger pointing in climate politics
It really depends on your perspective as to who deserves blame for a disappointing process in Glasgow. -
23 Nov 2021
Glasgow delivered, but what, exactly?
Not a miracle, certainly. But hard and messy negotiations secured a commitment to bring the temperature down. -
11 Nov 2021
What climate change means for mosquito-borne diseases
Already the most lethal creature to humans, environmental and urban changes may spread the danger to billions more. -
3 Nov 2021
It’s time to talk about existential risk
There will be no chance to review the “lessons learned”. -
1 Nov 2021
The dynamics of dust
Climate change is producing and circulating more dust, with surprising impacts on river flows and the spread of disease. -
1 Nov 2021
Is Russia finally getting serious on climate change?
Using hydrocarbon revenues to build green energy infrastructure would be a smart move. Don’t bet Moscow will take it. -
29 Oct 2021
Just how serious is Xi about climate change?
China should have much to gain from a decarbonising global economy yet displays a confusing ambivalence to the question. -
26 Oct 2021
Protecting people who lose their homes to climate change
King tides, cyclones, floods and drought are already displacing large numbers of people each year – where will they go? -
25 Oct 2021
Glasgow: a tipping point for serious action
Worrying signs suggest these most consequential of climate change talks are being set up for failure. -
20 Oct 2021
Australia, Indonesia and climate change
As the immediate pandemic crisis begins to recede, both countries should refocus the relationship on climate change. -
19 Oct 2021
The right climate for central planning
Not exactly a popular sentiment. But combating global warming might need to take a radical turn.