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  • 28 Nov 2024
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Is it time to change the clocks to harness the power of solar?

    Joseph Webster , Frank Willey
    Shifting to “solar alignment time” could lower energy costs, enhance supply reliability, and mitigate climate change.
  • 25 Nov 2024
    • Global Economy
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability

    Critical minerals and the case for human rights in the just transition

    Fiona David , Shannon Hobbs
    Poor labour standards uncovered in the nickel industry should serve as a warning not to repeat past industrial mistakes.
  • 18 Nov 2024
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability

    A long way to go to zero

    Selwyn Parker
    Southeast Asia’s fast-growing economies still rely on coal.
  • 15 Nov 2024
    • Asean
    • Singapore
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Is Southeast Asia ready for a regional power grid?

    Hannah Lord
    Australia is in pole position to partner with the region on cross-border electricity supply.
  • 6 Nov 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • BRICS

    New players on the bloc: Is BRICS+ a critical challenge?

    Marina Yue Zhang
    A growing roster of countries lined up in the grouping carries implications for Australia’s minerals policy.
  • 24 Oct 2024
    • China
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • United States

    China’s cleantech investment in the US: Leg-up or security threat?

    Henry Storey
    Security hawks have struggled to articulate a compelling case for completely pulling up the drawbridge.
  • 24 Sep 2024
    • India
    • Energy
    • Sustainability
    • Africa

    India seizes a small chance to make a big difference in Africa’s solar transformation

    Manish Vaid
    Decentralised power projects – rather than expensive grid networks – are the focus of a new phase in the International Solar Alliance.
  • 19 Sep 2024
    • Afghanistan
    • Energy

    The Taliban’s gas pipedream

    Humayoon Babur
    The much-hyped TAPI gas line faces too many blockages to be realistic.
  • 30 Aug 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Energy
    • Sustainability

    The right road to renewable biofuel in Indonesia

    Hidayatul Mustafidah Rohmawati , Michael Suryaprawira
    Taking directions from big producers in the United States and Brazil.
  • 9 Aug 2024
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Is Australia too late to claim its green economy share?

    Trang Nguyen
    Playing a role in Southeast Asia’s green energy transition is an opportunity Australia must not let pass.
  • 8 Aug 2024
    • India
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Mission possible: Making the most of Australia-India cooperation on critical minerals

    Titiksha Vashist , Zoe Jay Hawkins
    The Indian government has set itself a new ambition to meet green transition needs – and Australia is a perfect partner.
  • 31 Jul 2024
    • Europe
    • European Union
    • Energy
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Charging up: Europe’s bid for renewable energy independence

    Nina Marković Khaze
    A new deal with Serbia for one of the world's largest lithium mines is about breaking China’s stranglehold on the market.
  • 29 Jul 2024
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Critical minerals, critical decisions

    Shannon Hobbs , Fiona David
    A new UN panel can help ensure the social and environmental risks of the energy transition are better understood.
  • 24 Jun 2024
    • Japan
    • Australia in the World
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability

    Gas and the difficult path to net zero

    Stephen Grenville
    As a major supplier of global energy, Australia’s external challenges will be formidable.
  • 11 Jun 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Trade
    • Technology

    Rare earths vs rarer resources: Global ripples from Australia’s divestment decision

    Marina Yue Zhang
    Climate change is a challenge China and the United States are fighting together, making technological cooperation key.
  • 21 May 2024
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Free Trade
    • Trade
    • Sustainability
    • United States

    Whether EVs or solar panels, protectionism has the same distorting effect

    John Edwards
    Biden is playing election politics with tariffs on China’s electric cars, while Albanese’s solar subsidy plans might end up costing Australia.
  • 15 May 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Sustainability

    Australia’s new gas strategy makes for flawed foreign policy

    James Bowen
    Simultaneously advancing energy security in Asia and climate security in the Pacific is both possible and desirable.
  • 8 May 2024
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    The cable shortage: Plugging in offshore wind farms

    Cynthia Mehboob
    Australia must consider the bigger risks as well as the opportunity of a shift to renewable energy.
  • 26 Apr 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Australia’s comparative advantage in climate transition

    Stephen Grenville
    Already world leaders in rooftop solar, Australians should take the opportunity with supporting rollouts in Southeast Asia.
  • 16 Apr 2024
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    Great powers vs domestic politics: The clean energy trade-off

    Trissia Wijaya , Jun Arima , Patrick Ryan , Miwa Hirono
    The battle to corner the market on energy transition minerals has much at stake.
  • 16 Apr 2024
    • India
    • Sri Lanka
    • Energy

    India’s takeover of the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm will help build energy interdependence with Sri Lanka

    David Brewster
    Old infrastructure could get a new lease on life.
  • 28 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    ASEAN-Australia cooperation in the clean energy transition

    Sharon Seah
    Big ambition is the order of the day.
  • 12 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    Australia’s nuclear energy debate doesn’t have to be partisan

    Dron Parashar
    The technical merits of nuclear power as part of a mix of energy sources should be the foundation for debate here – as it is elsewhere globally.
  • 9 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Australia and Asia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • United States

    Middle East turmoil and a US pause offer Australia LNG opportunities

    Ian Satchwell
    On the way to net-zero, there is a chance to help bolster Asia’s regional energy security.
  • 25 Jan 2024
    • China
    • Energy
    • Sustainability

    Can China use offshore wind to break its reliance on foreign LNG and coal?

    Joseph Webster , Zoe Leung
    And could that make Beijing more open to risk-taking, including vis-à-vis Taiwan?
  • 2 Jan 2024
    • Vietnam
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Vietnam’s challenge to wean off coal

    Trang Nguyen
    Fossil fuels have driven rapid growth but the country has pledged – with global help – to be carbon neutral by 2050.
  • 28 Dec 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Technology

    Lithium, lightest metal on earth, carries heavy geopolitical weight

    Marina Yue Zhang
    Instead of a source of great tech power competition, lithium should be key to a collective fight against climate change.
  • 13 Dec 2023
    • Central Asia
    • China
    • Energy

    Beijing digs in for the Central Asia-China gas pipeline

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    Construction challenges aside, a geopolitical interest is obvious.
  • 6 Dec 2023
    • Energy
    • Technology
    • The Americas

    The geopolitics of Argentina’s lithium trade

    Marina Yue Zhang
    Will the new government redefine its trade ties with China – and at what cost?
  • 29 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Technology

    Southeast Asia's minerals: Opportunity knocks

    Ian Satchwell
    Australia should make better use of its regional leadership in minerals technology, skills and governance.
  • 28 Nov 2023
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Qatar
    • United Arab Emirates

    The regional realignment on display at COP28

    Achref Chibani
    Middle East nations that built riches on fossil fuels are now presenting as friends for the Global South in an energy transition.
  • 16 Nov 2023
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability

    Albanese is right to reject fossil fuel phaseouts

    Lachlan Carey
    The politics of climate change has to be paired with grasping the economics, too.
  • 9 Nov 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Economic diplomacy: Labor’s green security state rises

    Greg Earl
    From Chinese wind turbines to temporary foreign workers, Australia faces difficult intersections between domestic and foreign policy.
  • 8 Nov 2023
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Energy

    Ukraine’s energy fightback

    Stephen Minas
    Expert crews are risking their lives to keep the lights on amid Russia’s invasion – with help from far away, too.
  • 7 Nov 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership is a glass half full

    Tiza Mafira
    Momentum is building, but global pledges for no new fossil fuel expansion come with a lot of caveats.
  • 19 Oct 2023
    • China
    • European Union
    • Energy
    • Trade

    China’s car exports pose a key question to policymakers: Compete or protect?

    Robert Walker
    How they respond will have implications for consumers and the climate.
  • 19 Oct 2023
    • Mongolia
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Mongolia’s critical role in the global energy transition

    Byambajav Dalaibuyan , Vigya Sharma
    Many suitors are eager to assist the country in realising its natural resources potential. But are all the deals win-win?
  • 12 Oct 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Energy

    How can Australia get its commitments to reduce carbon emissions back on track?

    Greg Earl
    Economic diplomacy: Putting energy into the post-Voice political vacuum by smoothing Australia’s relations is a start.
  • 11 Oct 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Indonesia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Trade

    Indonesia’s “golden visa” pitch to big-wheel investors

    Warief Djajanto Basorie
    The President has a downstreaming vision and needs long-term capital to make it reality.
  • 6 Oct 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Russia
    • Ukraine
    • Energy

    Power of Siberia 2: Moving beyond a pipe dream?

    Genevieve Donnellon-May
    Australia would be wise to diversify its gas exports now before Russia’s pivot to Asia takes hold.
  • 3 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Five reasons why the government mustn’t cool its heels on an “Australian IRA”

    Elizabeth Thurbon , Alexander M. Hynd , Hao Tan
    What cause could be more important than the economic, energy, and environmental security of the nation and the future of the planet?
  • 15 Sep 2023
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Defence & Security
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Beijing’s plan for Taiwan challenges its offshore wind push

    Joseph Webster , Zoe Leung
    Fujian’s coast hasn’t kept up with wind power in other provinces – and military strategy seems to be blowing the other direction.
  • 15 Sep 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • Technology

    Critical minerals, critical choices: Australia’s role in shaping the green revolution

    Connor O’Brien
    “Resource nationalism” only poses a threat to mining policy if the government pretends it’s not happening.
  • 6 Sep 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Energy
    • International law

    The sticky case of Indonesia, a seized Iranian oil tanker, and legal jurisdiction

    Dita Liliansa
    An intercepted ship-to-ship transfer raises a series of interlinked questions about sanctions, pollution and the reach of international law.
  • 18 Aug 2023
    • Japan
    • Timor-Leste
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Stepping on the gas: Boosting Australia’s climate diplomacy in the region

    Andrea Fahey
    Opponents of carbon capture plans need to look past ideology and think about the development costs to friends and neighbours.
  • 15 Aug 2023
    • Asean
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Malaysia
    • Philippines
    • Taiwan
    • Thailand
    • Vietnam
    • Energy

    Pipe dreams: Turning an interconnected ASEAN gas market into a reality

    Massita Ayu Cindy Putriastuti , Nadira Asrifa
    An old idea for a regional network might hold the answer for energy demand into the future.
  • 21 Jul 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Energy
    • Technology

    Indonesia’s new capital of power can’t afford the tangled wires of Jakarta

    Hidayatul Mustafidah Rohmawati , Akhmad Hanan
    Look up and live takes on a new urgency in the digital age.
  • 20 Jul 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Trade

    Economic diplomacy: Japan’s message in a gas bottle

    Greg Earl
    More than hot air, economics is the essence of national security in Australia’s resource deficient closest Asian partner.
  • 14 Jul 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Technology

    Australia and Southeast Asia: Driving EV collaboration across borders

    Nicholas Basan
    A regional value chain for battery production – with Australia to process critical minerals and export these products – is too good a chance to ignore.
  • 7 Jul 2023
    • Timor-Leste
    • Energy
    • Poverty

    Timor-Leste: Breaking free from temptation of easy money

    Guteriano Neves
    The Gusmão-led government has a raft of development challenges and cannot afford to rely solely on oil and gas.
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