UN set to reject World Heritage listing for Murujuga rock art. Wants polluters like Woodside's North West Shelf plant removed. ===Breaking news=== www.boilingcold.com.au/un-set-to-re...

This week EnergyAustralia was forced to clarify that: “Burning fossil fuels creates greenhouse gas emissions that are not prevented or undone by carbon offsets …” Re-upping this Conversation piece explaining *why* offsets can’t be used to cut emissions. theconversation.com/a-tonne-of-f...

Workshops May 20-22: UNSW's Institute for Climate Risk and Response is holding three half-day workshops to give practical insights on climate risk - covering climate science, climate law, and climate decision drivers. Sign up here for one session, or all three. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/icrr-works...

The debate about energy policy is now, in broad terms, over. Australia’s energy future is wind and solar, backed by storage. Ben Newell and I have penned a piece explaining Australia is set to be a renewables nation. This will change our place in the world. theconversation.com/australia-is...

In 2022, the Australian people voted to finally act on climate change After three years of progress- in 2025 they said keep going.

Peter Dutton threatens to take Australia backwards on climate - expanding gas production, weakening emissions targets and abandoning plans to host COP31 with Pacific nations. As I explain here 👇 this would undermine Australian foreign policy in our region theconversation.com/peter-dutton...

Martin Wolf is not messing around here www.ft.com/content/d96d...

Australia's iron ore exports are worth about $85 billion a year and metallurgical coal a further $34 billion, but the potential increase in value by switching to producing green iron for export was put as high as $252 billion a year. www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

Fresh analysis from me. A national gas reservation scheme is on the table for Australia's federal election. Gas reservation may be useful - to ensure we meet remaining, dwindling, demand and as signal to trade partners like Japan - but no new gas is needed. theconversation.com/dutton-unvei...

Stating the obvious, but the Republican Party in the US is dangerously radicalised and peddling outright conspiracies. Can only imagine this will get a lot worse before it gets better.

If you are looking for an analytical framework to think about what is happening in the US, this piece from Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way is very useful - how a radicalised Republican Party is weaponising the machinery of state against political enemies. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

How dangerous is Trump? Has he undermined the post-1945 world order already? He's condoned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Israel's razing of Gaza (and wants spoils - minerals, land). Comments on Greenland, Panama (and Canada!) suggest a predatory foreign policy 1/4 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

Great thread here 👇 if you want to understand why today's announcement at Whyalla is so exciting - it paints a picture for a Future Made in Australia (leveraging renewables to export the commodities our trading partners need to decarbonise).