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Date: 29 November 2022 at 8:46:43 am AEDT
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Women’s participation is crucial to fight climate change
Carolina Mayen Huerta
For a sustainable future we need to bring women and girls to the forefront of the fight against climate change – a shift from the most affected by climate disasters to key players in energy transition
On This Day
Climate Change
Rowan Williams urges wealthy to stump up cash for climate fund
Former archbishop of Canterbury says richest nations and individuals must take lead on ‘loss and damage’
7.1m Bangladeshis displaced by climate change: WHO
The World Health Organisation on Monday disclosed that over 7.1 million Bangladeshis were displaced this year by climate change, a number that could reach 13.3 million by 2050.
Peter Boyer
Climate policy decisions – or their absence – in both global and local debates are bringing into focus something we have always known about greenhouse warming: the actions needed to mitigate its impact are not just up to leaders, but us personally as well.
COP27 was disappointing, but 2022 remains an historic year for international climate policy
Katherine Lake
This year’s global climate negotiations at the COP27 in Egypt were disappointing. In particular, the international commitment to limit planetary warming to 1.5℃ remains on “life support”.
Tessa Hiscox and Jack Heinemann
In our new research, we describe how the current “technology push” cycle perpetually promises to rescue humanity from climate change, and in doing so, delays real progress.
National
It is expected Labor will adopt a suite of reforms to address an anticipated 56% increase in electricity prices
Zappy trails: Cheaper loans to roll in for electric vehicles
Hundreds of Australian motorists will be able to access cheaper loans for electric vehicles as part of a $20.5 million investment by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
No easy fix for soaring electricity bills, power sector warns
Business leaders warn market intervention could have unintended long-term consequences as the PM flags drastic measures are looming to combat energy bills.
Call for urgent action on recycling fail
The calls come amid ‘disgraceful’ revelations that more than 260 tonnes of plastics were allegedly dumped into landfill.
Climate council report warns about the danger of extreme weather events – video
2022 will be remembered as the year of “the great deluge”. That’s the message from the Climate Council which has released its latest report, warning the danger from climate fuelled extreme weather events is far from over.
PM’s fix for electricity bills: direct subsidies [$]
Anthony Albanese is edging towards an inflation-fighting energy-relief package that would offset electricity bills for some businesses and households, while avoiding drastic interventions.
Climate reparations are sycophantic, virtue-signalling lunacy [$]
Mike O’Connor
Summer signals the end of the parliamentary year, when we can crack a coldie and offer a prayer of thanks that we will be spared the self-congratulatory, chest-thumping crowing of our leaders for a few months.
Victoria
Wooden it be nice: Push for timber office towers to boost worker health
A wooden high-rise to be built in Melbourne is the first project financed by Australia’s green bank under a new federal program.
Six crucial road projects get the chop [$]
Funding for six key Victorian road projects has been cut, after the Albanese government’s wasteful spending audit.
Victoria faces a grave climate and energy crisis. The new government’s policies must be far bolder
Ariel Liebman
The Andrews Labor government has been returned in Victoria. It must now reckon with two particularly crucial challenges: runaway climate change and wartime-scale energy costs.
Andrews must deliver on SEC pledge, but what are the benefits?
Tony Wood
If SEC 2.0 is going to deliver real benefits for Victorians, it should be as a state-owned corporation operating at arm’s length from ministers.
New South Wales
Birds of prey shopping list include a few hard-to-find items
Rehabilitating birds of prey that have been shot, poisoned, caught in netting or hit by cars is a challenging role, especially when sharp talons and beaks are involved.
Without a garage, Miriam and Guy plan their week around charging their electric car
This family plan their trips to buy milk to coincide with charging their EV, but many people are being put off by the lack of proper infrastructure to support the shift away from petrol vehicles.
Inside the secret talks to hand over public Sydney land [$]
Community groups including an RSL club could wake up with new landlords as part of secret talks to transfer Crown land to a local Indigenous group.
Roads Minister Natalie Ward fails in push to move to NSW lower house
NSW Roads Minister Natalie Ward has failed in her push to move to the lower house, losing a preselection battle to run in the ultra-safe seat of Davidson in Sydney’s northern suburbs.
Construction of Harbour Bridge cycleway ramp set to start mid-2023
A project assessment has found that the long-awaited elevated ramp will have a relatively minor effect on the famed coathanger’s heritage.
$1.2 billion Warringah Freeway upgrade fails to include cycleways
A billion-dollar freeway upgrade on Sydney’s north shore fails to address the “missing link” in the north shore cycleway and has forced NSW Active Transport Minister Rob Stokes to step in and bring the highway builders back to the negotiating table.
ACT
Summer rain needed to keep a lid on ACT’s grassfire threat
The risk of grass fires in the ACT over the coming summer months may increase – but only if this season’s predicted rain doesn’t arrive first.
Better bike lanes are the solution to Canberra’s pothole problems
Simon Copland
As Canberra suffers through the downpours caused by a third La Nina in a row, potholes are once again causing havoc on our roads. Despite a brief reprieve from the deluge, many are rightfully raising concerns, with some arguing the ACT government should be investing more into our road infrastructure.
Queensland
An inquiry into coal mine safety in Queensland is told labour hire staff are disproportionately represented in mining deaths and faced reprisals when safety issues were raised.
Queensland coal exports omitted from climate plan
Queensland’s carbon emissions targets are likely to become more amibitious, but coal exports will last “as long as the market dictates”, the premier says.
Queensland wind farm to double in size, provide power to 1.4 million homes
Queensland is set to become home to one of the largest wind farms in the Southern Hemisphere with the Queensland government announcing it will double the size of the MacIntyre Wind Precinct, west of Warwick.
Blown away: Qld’s monster $4b wind farm dwarfs coal; ’20 years ahead of nuclear’
The Macintyre wind farm precinct, near Warwick, will become a major energy hub after Acciona today revealed a $2 billion, 180-turbine wind farm would be built there.
How a 15-minute film four years in the making was worth every waiting moment for one community
A short film inspired by renowned author Judith Wright’s family history in colonial Queensland has showcased the resilience of First Nations people – and brought a diverse community together.
Queensland pledges to make its own wind turbines amid boom in giga-scale projects
Queensland says it wants to establish a local wind turbine manufacturing industry to supply its new giga-watt scale projects.
Great Barrier Reef should be placed on World Heritage ‘in danger’ list
A UN delegation again recommends Australia’s Great Barrier Reef be added to the World Heritage ‘in danger’ list, urging immediate and urgent action to protect it.
‘Still creeped out’: Queensland activist asks Adani to destroy any surveillance photos taken of family
Ben Pennings says matter continues to cause ‘anxiety’ after nine-year-old photographed, according to letters
Pains, trains and automobiles: The $6b plan to solve Brisbane’s Inland Rail woes
Acacia Ridge has long been the nominated northern terminus of the 1700-kilometre Inland Rail project. The public utterances of rail bosses and bureaucrats suggest that could be about to change.
Court ruling on Clive Palmer’s enormous coal mine heralds new era for climate cases
Justine Bell-James
Queensland court rules Palmer-owned Galilee Basin coal project should not go ahead, due to impacts on climate, environment and human rights.
Cameron Dick is absolutely right to be casting his net where the big money is
David Fagan
The resources sector is gearing up for a media blitz against the state government over its growing impost on our miners – but Treasurer Cameron Dick and his federal counterpart have few other places to look.
Be upfront with the future of coal [$]
Courier Mail editorial
Any transition away from fossil fuels needs to be handled deftly and with sensitivity, writes the editor. This is not only about emissions, it is about people’s lives and this should never be forgotten.
South Australia
‘It looked shiny like shells’: Thousands of dead fish wash up on Adelaide beach
The Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA) has found low tide and hot weather killed thousands of anchovies which were found marooned on a beach at Semaphore.
‘Under-threat’ park lands need world heritage protection: Libs
Opposition Leader David Speirs has thrown his support behind a long-running campaign to nominate the Adelaide park lands for UNESCO world heritage listing, despite warning about the cost and complexity of the process while he was a minister under the former Marshall Government.
Eyre Peninsula graphite mine gains key government approval [$]
A graphite mine near Arno Bay on the Eyre Peninsula has moved a step closer to construction after being granted a key state government approval.
Captive teens make break for freedom
Captive-bred western quolls have been released in South Australia to start a wild population.
Barngarla Traditional Owners and conservationists raise alarm over earthworks for radioactive waste dump
Traditional Owners and the Australian Conservation Foundation, united in opposition to a proposed radioactive waste facility in regional South Australia, are alarmed that preliminary earthworks have begun at the site before the conclusion of a Federal Court challenge to the dump plan.
Tasmania
Demand for electric vehicles offers hope for mothballed Tasmanian nickel mine
The booming EV industry may give a West Coast Tasmanian mine a lifeline after languishing in care and maintenance mode for 13 years.
Tasmania is the country’s ’emissions slasher’, but Climate Council warns more needs to be done
Over the last decade Tasmania has reduced its transport emission by 18 per cent.
Northern Territory
Traditional Owners fear new NT law will create gas exploitation free-for-all
Traditional Owners from the Beetaloo Basin fear new Northern Territory legislation will create “production by stealth”, sidestepping requirements to consult and secure agreements with native title holders for full-scale industrial development on their country, by allow fracking companies to mine and sell gas at scale for up to 15 years at the exploration stage.
Western Australia
Rio Tinto signs remedy deal with traditional owners after blowing up ancient rock shelters
An Aboriginal corporation and Rio Tinto have agreed to create something positive out of the “continuing pain” caused by the mining giant’s destruction of ancient rock shelters in WA’s north.
Rio funds foundation for Juukan Gorge traditional owners
The undisclosed financial backing from the miner was not compensation for its destruction of Aboriginal heritage, according to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama people.
Upurli Upurli people say no to uranium mining at Mulga Rock
Protesters outside Deep Yellow’s annual general meeting said the company must end its plans to mine uranium at Mulga Rock on the land of the Upurli Upurli people, who absolutely oppose it.
Safety fears shut Santos platform, squeezing WA’s energy supply
WA Energy Minister Bill Johnston said a leak at Santos’ John Brookes platform was not expected at this stage to impact the supply to consumers as Perth’s power demands ramp up.
Perth fossil fuel explorer plans another crack at a Kimberley fracking
Plans to drill in the Kimberley using hydraulic fracturing technology have been scrapped by a tiny Perth-based oil company that once promoted a vision of a $77 billion development in WA’s far north.
Historic Land Use Agreement to deliver social and economic growth for East Kimberley’s Ngarinyin people
A historic tri-partite Land Use Agreement has been signed for Western Australia’s East Kimberley Region, traditional lands of the Ngarinyin people.
Sustainability
Police and protesters clash in India amid anger over Adani port
As many as 36 police in India’s southern state of Kerala have been injured during clashes with protesters angry over the construction of an Adani port.
So many microplastics in Sunday roast it’s like eating two plastic bags a year
Eating a Sunday roast can result in swallowing 230,000 particles of microplastics, a study has warned.
Are real or artificial Christmas trees better for the environment?
Some experts say a real tree is the more sustainable choice, but you can reduce an artificial tree’s impact if you reuse it enough.
Türkiye aims to develop real-time map of air pollution
Türkiye will soon launch the development of a real-time map of air pollution caused by vehicle traffic to draw realistic data and calculate emissions.
Go less frequently, stay longer: how I learned to embrace slow travel
Elizabeth Quinn
The antithesis of whistle-stop world tours, single-destination holidays offer sustenance and sustainability
Why petrol cars could be bad investments
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
By 2040, experts say new petrol cars will be significantly harder to find around the world as manufacturers face increasing pressure to stop production.
Nature Conservation
Native mussel numbers down almost 95% since 1960s, Thames survey finds
Scientists trying to replicate 1964 study say results reveal alarming deterioration in river’s ecosystem
Synthetic fibers discovered in Antarctic air, seawater, sediment and sea ice as the ‘pristine’ continent becomes a sink for plastic pollution
Microplastic fibers discovered in samples (air, seawater, sediment and sea-ice) from the last remaining pristine environment on Earth.
Will wild coffee go extinct from climate change? Botanists say we can still save this crop
Climate change might drive wild coffee extinct, which would have broad impacts on the industry for the world’s favorite drug.
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