#BREAKINGNEWS Australia has just given preliminary approval to extend the life of the North West Shelf, the country's biggest and oldest liquefied natural gas plant for decades. This raises serious questions about Australia's climate agenda.

🔥🌍 We don't need new global pledges - we need new ideas of how to support and maintain economic opportunities at the forested margins of society - or inequality and drought might simply consume our forests www.independent.co.uk/voices/defor... @the-independent.com

2 parts tech, 1 part tariffs, add a pinch of protectionism. That seems to be the price recipe for EVs - set to make up 1 in 4 cars sold this year But could this transition happen faster? Should it? And is there a fairer, middle-way? www.independent.co.uk/voices/elect... @the-independent.com

🌍 A seismic shift in Australian politics has just opened the door to the most significant opportunity for Australia's domestic and perhaps its role in international climate action in over a decade. Read more: www.independent.co.uk/voices/austr... @the-independent.com #auspol #Canada #NetZero

Australia's two parties are still neck-and-neck ahead of the next election, but when it comes to energy policy, they’re worlds apart. The outcome could shape the country’s climate future for decades. 🌏⚡ #auspol #climate www.independent.co.uk/voices/austr...

After one year of Australia's Safeguard Mechanism, there are three key questions to ask: 1. Has it created a real incentive to reduce emissions? 2. Can we trust the data? 3. Is it set up to improve over time? My take on the challenges: reneweconomy.com.au/coal-mine-em... #ClimatePolicy #AusPol

I think we are really only scratching the surface of how incredible renewables + storage can be as a revenue source for so many small businesses www.independent.co.uk/voices/solar...

Good to clarify why Trump was in such a rush to leave

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

The NSW gov is considering extending Tahmoor coal mine’s 1 million tonnes of CO2-e per year But who would they even be extending it for? If ever there was a time to hit pause, this would be it! #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/who-will-tak...

Global thermal coal markets are moving - and Australia could be in for a rude awakening if we don’t prepare for big shifts in years to come www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science...

So interesting how scary a built-in fossil fuel decline can be for a government seeking to manage debt repayments And how much simpler the climate challenge would be without further expansionary spending

We passed ‘peak aid’ in 2022 and won’t be going back under Trump. The same is probably true for #climatefinance Question is, what do we push for now? www.independent.co.uk/voices/usaid...

Dear America, THIS 👇 is what you should've done. #DonaldTrump #USPolitics

So stranded fossil fuel sponsorship risk is now a thing?

Is this maybe even too Australian?

This is just embarrassing, and your music critic should be embarrassed. I recommend instead people read andscape.com/features/gen...

NSW coal has a bigger global climate impact than…France! The numbers shocked me too #auspol #nsw reneweconomy.com.au/nsw-has-coal...

If unchecked, crypto could be used to trade away national sovereignty, undermine energy security and destabilise the climate – all at the same time www.independent.co.uk/voices/crypt...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Australia could be poised to reap the benefits of $billions in stranded clean energy capital looking for the most fertile soil to invest in #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/australias-m...

The British stole stuff from all around the world and they wont give it back. But they also left statues of colonisers everywhere too… Can we give those back now too? #auspol

Blake shelton keeping receipts!! What an awesome push back on lazy journalists at the #ausopen Just became my new favourite (non Aussie) tennis player www.foxsports.com.au/tennis/austr...

“I am terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country” - James Baldwin

Labor is sitting on the edge of a historic opportunity: No New Coal Mines Stop whispering it and lets do it! www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science...

Big Oil corporations have tested the waters and abandoned their climate resolutions in the last 12 months, and suffered very little push-back. Now they plan drill for more oil than anyone wants – or any of us afford www.independent.co.uk/voices/bp-sh...

There is a unique finance opportunity in 2025, especially in Asia - with a few key elections and long term finance plans due to be renewed eastasiaforum.org/2024/12/24/a...

Last week, four new coal mine expansions were approved, adding to a shocking total of seven coal mine approvals in just 90 days www.independent.co.uk/voices/austr...

Labor has approved 7 coal mines in 90 days, including thermal coal mine extensions and a new super-emitting underground mine - that could be one of the biggest emitters in the country. Before any of their coal gets burned, they are a big methane problem reneweconomy.com.au/new-coal-min...

“On the one hand, we’re racing to build out renewables faster than any other country per capita. On the other, we’re racing to approve more coal mines faster than any other.” www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... by @stuti.bsky.social #auspol

Brilliant piece by @jolauder.bsky.social

Farmers in the Southwest and blue collar workers in the rust-belt could be key allies in the next 4 years thttps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-climate-policy-joe-biden-ira-b2664367.html

I feel like Rotary International can pick a side on this one amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

So the Libs announced an energy policy in 2024, that basically doesn’t actually generate energy till 2040?

Why coal must be a priority of COP31 in 2 years time…no matter where its held… dialogue.earth/en/energy/co...

Good to see young people still inspired by Isaac Asimov these days

A great retrospective on the hopes and transitional tactics over the last decade of oil sands expansion. But I am genuinely left wondering…what the next step for Canada and Alberta’s oil sands?

🔥 Gout Gout 🔥 still only 16 years old (turns 17 end of December) U18 100m heat 1 Australian All Schools Championships 1️⃣ 0️⃣ . 0️⃣ 4️⃣ (+3.4) #unbelievable

Men will declare martial law and commence a coup rather than go to therapy.

Why finance is so critically linked to fossil fuel transitions, and still needs to be a major focus next year #cop29 #cop30 www.independent.co.uk/voices/cop29...

According to Korean constitutional law, if martial law is declared in a state of non-war, the National Assembly can vote to make the president stand it down. The National Assembly is gathering now. We are just now getting footage of inside the National Assembly.

The coal sector is quickly trying to buffer itself against a structural decline in thermal coal The question is, will the NSW government read the tea leaves? www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2024...

I was struggling to compare the CCA emissions inventories 2023 v 2024…till… “For the fifth year in a row, revisions to Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGGI) in 2024 identified additional land sector sequestration” Awesome www.climatechangeauthority.gov.au/sites/defaul...

I wrote an article saying: ‘Bolsonaro is going to stage a coup’. All you had to do was pay attention to what he was saying,” Barros said Can we start believing these guys are as crazy as the say they are? www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

I’m convinced that Peabody just stepped into the centre of Australia’s emissions reduction challenge. reneweconomy.com.au/peabody-just...

Amazing data - perceptions of Aus fossil fuel industry [employment / contribution to GDP / tax contributions] vs reality - from @australiainstitute.org.au's annual 'Climate of the Nation' survey What $billions in advertising + compliant cultural capture buys you -->> apo.org.au/node/329142

Don’t forget the “extension of p.53 of the Paris agreement” part before skipping to the “by 2035” part of #cop29

Only 184 ppl kicked off watching the final #cop29 plennary.

I wrote about myself. Views are my own #cop29 www.independent.co.uk/voices/cop29...

If the next NCQG is $300bln per year, that would raise total finance commitment to $3.3trl by 2035 If its just $300 bln “by 2035” BUT $100 bln per year till then, it is only really a commitment of $1.3 trillion total by 2035 #cop29