Alasdair MacLeod was regularly escaping to the country with his young family when he realised something was going horribly wrong there – and needed a radical solution.
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has escalated his war against oil and gas producers,and Woodside in particular,taking to a helicopter off the remote WA coast to lambast its $18 billion Scarborough gas export project as a “carbon dioxide bomb”.
The city’s 2024 summer festival season will be the first in recent memory free of fossil fuel sponsorship after a five-year grassroots campaign declares a win.
Rising out of the desert,the futuristic metropolis of Dubai hosted a historic global agreement this week. Nearby,nature takes its toll.
The world has taken stock of its climate change response and found it seriously wanting. Action can and must be taken.
For the first time in COP’s 28-year history and in the face of fierce opposition from some states,fossil fuels were explicitly named in the event’s final text.
The end of the negotiations came suddenly,a day after the talks were to have ended and after two marathon nights of tough discussions between rival voting blocs.
There had been hope that the final agreement would include language that specifically addressed the key cause of emissions and climate change – the burning of fossil fuels.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen told the climate talks that fossil fuels have no future in world energy systems,but his nod to emissions capture has irked some.
Few Australians know the Country I call home. Let me take you there through spinifex,mulga trees,red sand and open skies – and introduce you to my family.
A Coalition government would sign a pledge to triple nuclear energy output at its first global COP talks and overturn the Australian nuclear energy moratorium,its energy spokesman said.