A coal mine in the Hunter Valley region has sparked debate among politicians, environmental advocates and local residents.
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A new model offers a template for just and transparent accounting of loss and damage.
Australian exports to China in three key sectors are all slowing. Businesses will need to meet the challenge.
Keeping aging coal plants open, building new gas plants and choices about pollution controls affect electricity bills. Pollution adds health costs and climate damage that may not appear on those bills.
The battery boom is accelerating Australia’s shift away from gas.
Africa is rapidly expanding electricity generation, but new research shows energy planning must also account for water scarcity and carbon dioxide emissions.
Wealthy nations will need to help fund clean energy, green industrial growth and mineral processing.
Ads from the 19th and 20th centuries shows how the industry has long tried to promote coal as clean and even healthy, despite evidence to the contrary.
The plant is the largest of its kind in the world – and it suffered extensive damage.
Despite large pledges, Indonesia’s US$20 billion JETP has delivered little. Research shows funds are diverted to feasibility studies and donor interests rather than local green energy projects.
A just transition to a green economy with broad growth in employment will require deliberate efforts.
Native American lands contain 30% of the nation’s coal, 50% of its uranium and 20% of its natural gas, as well as copper, lithium and rare earth elements.
If the biggest coal exporters banned new coal mines, they could drive the shift to renewables – and benefit while they do it.
Coal mines are notorious sources of acid mine drainage, but the orange sludge that threatens water supplies and wildlife also contains valuable rare earth elements.
South Africa and Nigeria promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from oil and coal. But instead they’re planning to increase production of fossil fuels.
China is still expanding its coal-fired power stations and depends on coal in its energy network.
The Trump administration has made several efforts to support the coal industry, but even if coal were free, the economics aren’t in its favor.
Nearly a third of all countries worldwide have pledged to phase out their unabated coal-burning power. But China and India are still adding coal plants – for now.
A fast drop in coal use played a big role, but there was more, as these charts show.
As soon as the 2018-2019 shutdown began, coal-fired power plants started emitting more particulate matter pollution. And when the inspections resumed, the levels dropped back to normal.
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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