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climate change
National affairs
Why Joe Biden needs to win
Peter Brent
3 March 2020
A Biden candidacy would be the best news on offer for a warming planet
National affairs
Labor’s biggest climate problem is itself
Peter Brent
25 February 2020
… and an obsession with well-paid miners isn’t helping
National affairs
Worst-case economics
John Quiggin
19 February 2020
Opportunity cost still matters in deciding the best ways of tackling climate change, but the timeframe has shrunk dramatically
National affairs
From Europe, a carbon game changer?
Peter Brent
6 February 2020
Australia continues to flounder, but help could be on the way from the new president of the European Commission
National affairs
Precautionary principles
Melissa Sweet
6 February 2020
Can infectious disease outbreaks help strengthen Australia’s response to another health crisis?
Books & arts
Reshaping the current affairs landscape
Jane Goodall
5 February 2020
Television
| Renewed flagship programs highlight the strengths and weaknesses of ABC current affairs
Correspondents
How Australia’s love affair with coal looks from afar, and why it matters
Klaus Neumann
4 February 2020
Europeans have been watching Australia’s bushfires and climate change policies with growing dismay
Correspondents
All in the same canoe
Hamish McDonald
30 January 2020
The devastating bushfires are adding to the pressure for Scott Morrison to cooperate with Australia’s Pacific neighbours
National affairs
Invest with the best
John Quiggin
29 January 2020
With governments failing to act, divesting from carbon-based fuel investments is more important than ever
National affairs
How good is Matt Kean?
Brett Evans
22 January 2020
The NSW environment minister wasn’t speaking only on his own behalf
Essays & reportage
To burn or not to burn is not the question
Daniel May
17 January 2020
As successive royal commissions have found, prescribed burning is a tool, not a panacea
National affairs
Conviction politics
Peter Brent
17 January 2020
Will it take international pressure for the Coalition to finally budge on climate change?
National affairs
Outside the comfort zone
Peter Brent
8 January 2020
Twitter’s roiling, and even the real world is wondering how the prime minister burned through his political capital so quickly
Summer season
Savage Summer
Tom Griffiths
8 January 2020
The Australian bushfire has its own fine-grained local languages
Essays & reportage
Inflammatory exchanges
Jane Goodall
7 January 2020
Was the climate debate pushed off course by a misconceived strategy of persuasion?
Essays & reportage
Here comes the sun
Tristan Edis
7 January 2020
Are three multimillionaires about to break Australia’s political deadlock on climate?
National affairs
Slow burn
John Quiggin
1 January 2020
Hundreds more deaths will result from the particulates created by Australia’s current crop of bushfires
National affairs
Tides of opinion
John Quiggin
16 December 2019
Generational divides don’t explain much, though attitudes to climate and culture seem to be exceptions
National affairs
Yes, the world is paying attention to Australia’s climate inaction
John Quiggin
2 December 2019
Despite the trade minister’s response, there’s nothing unusual about Emmanuel Macron’s demand for progress
Books & arts
Vision splendid
Kerry Schott
27 November 2019
Books
| Ross Garnaut can see Australia leading the world in reducing emissions
International
We’re way off course for Paris, says World Energy Outlook
Tim Colebatch
14 November 2019
Bringing down global emissions will require a “laser-like focus”
National affairs
If not now, when?
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick
13 November 2019
Diary of a Climate Scientist
| Bushfires and climate change are undoubtedly linked, so it’s time to get serious
National affairs
Is Adani still playing for time?
John Quiggin
6 September 2019
Native title is the latest casualty of the company’s coalmining plans. But will the project really proceed?
Essays & reportage
Want to reduce the power of the finance sector? Start by looking at climate change
John Quiggin
19 August 2019
Despite their lingering power, banks and financiers needn’t be untouchable
National affairs
Adani’s silent partners
John Quiggin
16 July 2019
With no further approvals needed, Adani’s Carmichael mine is all set to go. Or is it?
Correspondents
“Our house is burning”
David Hayes
24 May 2019
A young prophet of apocalypse invigorates Europe’s climate debate
Books & arts
Revivalists of the right
Rodney Tiffen
8 May 2019
Books
| Three men and four organisations were at the centre of a movement with an outsized impact on Australian politics
National affairs
How much will it cost to deal with climate change?
John Quiggin
6 May 2019
The government’s latest figures show there’s at least one wrong answer — and the same mistakes have been made before
National affairs
Whose climate policy is that?
Mike Steketee
24 April 2019
Election 2019
| Labor’s plans are conservative in the full sense — just look where some of its key ideas came from
National affairs
How Britain kicked coal
John Quiggin
2 April 2019
Once heavily reliant on coal-fired power, the British economy has taken the shift in its stride
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