Category: climate change

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The Australian Federal Government’s Net-Zero Betrayal

Commentary With the Liberal-National Coalition government about to officially sign onto a 2050 net-zero emissions target, many Australians are wondering what the point of the 2019 election was. At the so-called “climate election,” the Coalition proposed maintaining their existing policy of a 26 percent reduction on 2005 levels by 2030. Labor proposed more significant reductions…


Climate Considered a “First-Order Risk” in the Financial System: Expert

Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the independent Reserve Bank has said that the climate is now considered a first-order risk to the Australian finance sector at CFA Australia Investment Conference on Oct 14. “Most Australian financial institutions now recognise climate as a risk,” he told the conference. He also added that in recent years in…


Climate Change Considered a ‘First-Order Risk’ in Financial System: Expert

Guy Debelle, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia has said that the climate is now considered a “first-order risk” to the Australian finance sector at CFA Australia Investment Conference on Oct 14. “Most Australian financial institutions now recognise climate as a risk,” he told the conference. He also added that in recent years…


Academic Freedom Relegated to the Dustbin of History

Commentary The High Court Of Australia has now unanimously rendered its judgment in the Peter Ridd case. The facts of the Ridd case are well known. James Cook University sacked Peter Ridd, a physics professor, in 2018 for criticising his colleagues’ research on the preservation of the Great Barrier Reef. Professor Ridd went public with…


UN Biodiversity Conference Begins in China

Part One of the United Nations’ Biodiversity Conference is taking place this week in the city of Kunming in the country identified as the world’s largest polluter, the People’s Republic of China. Coming shortly before the United Nations’ scheduled Climate Change conference, the meeting takes place at a time when extinction rates among animals are…


Sen. Sinema’s Office Denies Report That She Wants to Cut $100 Billion From Climate Proposals

A spokesperson for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) has denied that she wants to cut $100 billion from climate proposals in the Democrats’ spending bill currently making its way through Congress. Sinema is one of two centrist Democrats in the Senate whose votes are critical to the passage of two bills that together would form President Joe…


Lessons From Merkel’s Failed ‘Teal’ Electoral Strategy

Commentary Politicians who aspire to lead their centre-right parties into the deep left might first consider the electoral cataclysm that has taken place in Germany over the past six years. Departing German Chancellor Angela Merkel has left her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party a husk of its previous heights in 2013 when it fell just…


California Law Bans Small Off-Road Gas Engines, Including Lawnmowers and Chainsaws

California moved one step closer to ending reliance on fossil fuels as Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new bill into law on Sunday to ban all off-road gas-powered engines. The new law requires the state to apply the new rule by Jan. 1, 2024, or as soon as regulators determine is “feasible,” whichever date…


California Bans Small Off-Road Gas Engines, Including Lawnmowers and Chainsaws

California moved one step closer to ending reliance on fossil fuels as Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new bill into law on Sunday to ban all off-road gas-powered engines. The new law requires the state to apply the new rule by Jan. 1, 2024, or as soon as regulators determine is “feasible,” whichever date…