As tens of thousands of people – the vast majority of them striking school children – gather around Australia to call for stronger government action on climate change, where were our top politicians?
The nation’s leader, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, was quite likely tucking himself into bed
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CEO and founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos says the company is making the single largest order of electric vehicles to date as part of a “Climate Pledge” initiative to make the online retail giant carbon neutral by 2040.
In a video of the announcement that
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The federal Coalition government is fond of telling us that going renewables will be the death of the economy, and cause electricity prices to go into orbit. But it doesn’t have to look very far to see how successful a well-thought out renewables scheme can be.
In
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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency is looking to encourage food manufacturers to increase the use of renewable energy technologies in food production, announcing a new round of funding for Australian food producers to develop plans for shifting their energy use to zero emissions sources.
ARENA has committed
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It’s been known for sometime that Volkswagen has an electric future in store for Australian drivers, but which vehicle from its planned ID series would make it here first has been a mystery.
The German auto group has 70- electric vehicles planned over its brands
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Leading experts have revealed Australia could run entirely on renewable electricity and produce double what it needs to create a massive green export industry by 2050.
A report from scientists working under the Australian-German Energy Transition Hub has examined the economic opportunities of decarbonisation over the coming decades.
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Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government has already shown substantial contempt for next week’s United Nations Climate Summit, with the Prime Minister Scott Morrison declining to attend even though he will be in the United States.
Now it seems the UN has hit back announcing that leading economies such as Japan
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New measures to speed up the transition to clean energy and green economies are among the initiatives to be unveiled during the United Nations Climate Change Summit next week.
Heads of State, representatives from the private sector, and the Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg are expected in New York
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According to a new Australia Institute (AI) report Australia’s national capital, Canberra, is set to become the first city outside Europe to source 100 per cent of its electricity needs from renewable energy.
The report, just published, found Canberra was poised to become just the eighth city in the
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Swedish teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg called for action, not praise, from United States politicians as she joined other youth leaders in two days of meetings and speeches on Washington’s Capitol Hill.
This week’s events are intended to raise awareness ahead of a global “climate strike” on Friday,
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In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes, of acidifying and rising oceans, it is hard to believe that any further prod to climate action is needed.
But the reality is that we continue to live in a business-as-usual world.
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