The head of Australia’s Clean Energy Council, Kane Thornton, has highlighted the need for the country’s politicians to focus on transitioning to a low-carbon, renewable energy future at the lowest possible cost, and building policies which will support the phase-out of coal and the growth of investment in renewable energy generation.
The well-regarded, nonpartisan Pew Research Center fact tank has just sliced and diced the results of its Spring 2015 Global Attitudes Survey. The Pew climate change survey included a slew of questions about attitudes toward climate change and the relationship between climate change and other objective economic and environmental indicators. … [continued]
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Originally published on EdenKeeper. Last week, Republican presidential hopefuls once again took the stage to debate their policies and platforms on issues ranging from immigration, to Obamacare, to Donald Trump. It’s easy to predict what they will say or what they said even without watching; they’ll call for border fences, an … [continued]
Australia’s Liberal Party has elected a new leader, Malcolm Turnbull, which will soon mean a new Prime Minister for Australia — a move which has every chance to have a positive impact on the country’s renewable energy industry which has suffered heavily under the now-previous Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. Australian … [continued]
Originally published on Solar Love. US renewable energy subsidies are scheduled to expire on December 31, 2016. What will replace them? The answer may well depend on the next general election results in November of next year. Politicians are already honing their campaign rhetoric and many conservatives are openly hostile to … [continued]
Australia has pledged to cut carbon emissions by at least 26% from 2005 levels by 2030, but doesn’t have the policy tools to deliver on their promise. This is the conclusion made by Bloomberg New Energy Finance associate Hugh Bromley, in a release pushed out on Tuesday. Bromley equates Australia’s … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy This may be a case of exquisite timing. Just as Prime Minister Tony Abbott launched into another attack on Australia’s wind farms, the nation’s wind turbines have pooled together to provide record output for a single day in Australia. As this graph, courtesy of Infigen Energy’s … [continued]
Originally published on Sustainnovate. The costs associated with stranded assets are already greater than the costs associated with action on climate change, according to the economist and climate change advisor Professor Ross Garnaut. The recent comments came as part of a rather direct attack made by the economist on the … [continued]
The Australian Government has conceded to a compromised Renewable Energy Target deal with its opposition, bringing the nearly two-year political debate to an anticlimactic close with a 33,000 GWh by 2020 target and no formal two-year review. The bipartisan deal was sealed Monday, after the ruling Coalition agreed to drop plans … [continued]
