Articles on or after 5/27/2023:
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Greenhouse gas emissions - Guardian - Climate Change (Jul 1) |
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Jul 1 · Crossbench senator’s support is crucial if government is to introduce planned revamp of safeguard mechanism
The independent senator David Pocock has urged the Albanese government to quickly implement all recommendations from a review of Australia’s carbon credit system, given that it wants to introduce a climate policy that relies heavily on offsets.
Pocock’s is a key vote if the government is to introduce a planned revamp of the safeguard mechanism, a scheme that is meant to reduce carbon pollution from 215 big polluting industrial and resources sites.
The Canberra senator said he wanted to see the 16 recommendations of the former chief scientist Prof Ian Chubb’s ... Read more ...
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Industrial heavyweights call for urgent action on cutting Australia’s emissions - Guardian - Climate Change (Jul 1) |
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Jul 1 · In joint statement companies say they are 'ready to seize opportunity’ of decarbonisation and call on others to join them
Some of Australia’s biggest heavy industrial companies – including BHP, BlueScope, Rio Tinto and Woodside – say urgent action is needed from governments, investors and business for Australia to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with its goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C.
A joint statement signed by 17 members of the Australian Industry Energy Transitions Initiative follows their support for a report in February that found they could cut direct emissions in their supply chains by more than 90% by 2050 without relying heavily on carbon offsets. Read more ...
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Methane emissions ‘incredibly cheap' to cut without needing offsets, safeguard mechanism inquiry told - Guardian (Jul 1) |
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Jul 1 · Hearing into Labor’s changes to the scheme told a 75% reduction in methane was possible using commercially competitive existing technology
Methane emissions from the oil and gas industry are “incredibly cheap” to cut and companies could improve their financial position by embracing existing technology to stop carbon leaks, an inquiry into the Albanese government’s climate policy has heard.
A hearing into proposed changes to the safeguard mechanism – a Coalition policy applied to industrial emissions that Labor plans to revamp – was told the International Energy Agency (IEA) had estimated a 75% reduction in methane was possible using commercially competitive existing ... Read more ...
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The time for a climate trigger in Australia has hopefully, finally, belatedly come - Guardian - Climate Change (Jul 1) |
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Jul 1 · It could be part of the solution to the impasse over the safeguard mechanism. Even if it isn’t, the logic for it should be irresistible
New Orleans was still awash in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the then prime minister, John Howard, was in climate doubt and delay mode when Anthony Albanese got to his feet in the Australian parliament to argue for a better way ahead.
Then a mid-ranking opposition frontbencher, the future PM gave a nod to the carnage in Louisiana before running through the “profound risks’’ that Australia would face if greenhouse gas emissions kept rising – a now-familiar list including worsening heatwaves, less rain in the south, more rain in ... Read more ...
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