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Sustainable Finance, Green Bonds Co-Founder Altius, Director Australian Ethical, Adjunct Fellow UNSW Business School Also, Arsenal, St Kilda FC, guitar and fly fishing

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Surviving on Trump's Dangerous Planet Yet another war, and yet another argument for an end to oil

Decentralised Solar is harder to hit than a power station - it’s come to this….
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03.03.2026 20:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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02.03.2026 18:09 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Have China's carbon emissions peaked? China's clean energy surge, U.S. endangerment finding rescinded, and climate-safe banks

Positive open.substack.com/pub/talkingc...

02.03.2026 21:35 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump campaign peace promises loom large over wartime presidency The "anti-war" candidate has bombed seven countries and launched a new regime-change war in Iran.

💥 No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.

He's attacked 7 nations, three of which had never been targeted by U.S. military strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in four years.

02.03.2026 12:15 👍 1097 🔁 528 💬 70 📌 72
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Researchers call for systemic approaches to improve media coverage of climate change and related health impacts

Researchers call for systemic approaches to improve media coverage of climate change and related health impacts www.croakey.org/researchers-...

02.03.2026 09:37 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Anti-renewables group rebrands after racking up $600k legal bill A legal stoush with a wind company backed by Andrew Forrest has bankrupted a controversial conservation group. But its campaign against renewables lives on.

Coal using “lawfare” and nuclear dreams to frustrate progress www.afr.com/policy/energ...

02.03.2026 20:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Little surprise then that the Parliamentary Budget Office has found that 59% of the benefit of the CGT discount goes to the richest 1% (or those earning more than $362,900):

with chart showing the richest 10% get $17.7bn from the CGT discount while the rest get $4bn.

Screen shot: Little surprise then that the Parliamentary Budget Office has found that 59% of the benefit of the CGT discount goes to the richest 1% (or those earning more than $362,900): with chart showing the richest 10% get $17.7bn from the CGT discount while the rest get $4bn.

The CGT 50% discount not only distorts the housing market it is also the most inequitable policy you could dream up. (Which is probably why John Howard and Peter Costello did it)
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

25.02.2026 21:45 👍 189 🔁 88 💬 13 📌 5
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Australia's Pacific Island neighbours are pushing for 100 pct renewables. But is it possible? Faced with the devastating impacts of climate change, Pacific leaders are pushing to achieve 100% renewables in the next decade. But is this feasible?

Faced with the devastating impacts of climate change, #Pacific leaders are pushing to achieve 100% #renewables in the next decade. But is this feasible?

25.02.2026 22:14 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Sam Alito has an oil money problem 30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels.

If only integrity mattered open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

25.02.2026 22:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely

24.02.2026 07:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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From trash to treasure: turning high-emissions waste into fertiliser New research from UNSW Sydney could transform one of the world’s most pollution-heavy chemical industries, turning waste products into fertiliser while cleaning up waterways and cutting emissions.

Eureka for better urea
www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

24.02.2026 07:11 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Think the phrase “Ghost GDP” will be the next “Dutch disease”

23.02.2026 20:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"We don't doubt ourselves:" Fortescue's race to real zero – and the radical rethink behind it Iron ore giant Fortescue has just four years left to meet its real zero emissions by 2030 target, a mammoth task that will require it to fundamentally change how it operates. So can it be done?

Whole of operation grid management reneweconomy.com.au/we-dont-doub...

21.02.2026 07:27 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Ha yes!

20.02.2026 10:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Assume that’s called assisted venting of spleen?

20.02.2026 07:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Records tumble as nine wind and solar projects, 1 GW of batteries join grid in just three months If Angus Taylor thought there was "too much wind and solar" on Australia's grid back when he was federal energy minister in 2018, have we got news for him in 2026.

reneweconomy.com.au/records-tumb...

20.02.2026 01:03 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Just like the pathetic gallop poll cancellation - more shoot the messenger nonsense

U.S. Tells International Energy Agency to Drop Its Focus on Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/c...

19.02.2026 22:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Europe’s climate ambition needs industry that can invest in Europe [Promoted Content] Europe’s climate ambition depends on keeping industrial investment in Europe. Cement shows why competitiveness, predictable policy and strong demand are essential to deliver decarbonisation while preserving Europe’s industrial base and strategic autonomy.

Europe’s climate ambition needs industry that can invest in Europe [Promoted Content]

19.02.2026 06:17 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
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As solar booms, an Australian technology is rolled out around the world At the interface of AI, big data, the energy transition and mind-bogglingly complex weather systems, the ongoing supply of electricity relies on answering a deceptively simple question: Will it be sun...

Solar forecasting for the sake of the grid www.abc.net.au/news/science...

19.02.2026 01:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patagonia’s wildfires killed 23+ people and burned trees over 3,000 years old.

Scientists say the fire conditions are now a 1-in-5 year event in today’s climate. Rainfall down 20–25%. Models project worse.

Ancient ecosystems erased in a single season.
This is collapse.

17.02.2026 18:31 👍 31 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 4

On life support

18.02.2026 06:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Clean energy rescues unreliable coal - feels wrong but a more robust grid facilitates more renewables

18.02.2026 04:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
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Centennial Coal & Sydney Water Did you know that if you walk into a Sydney Catchment Special Area you could be fined up to $44,000? So why are coal mines allowed to pump their “treated” wastewater into rivers that fl…

Contaminated water has leached into the groundwater since 2017. knittingnannas.org/2026/02/18/c...

17.02.2026 20:04 👍 33 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 2
fossil incentivisation

fossil incentivisation

In this piece of work I put these alarming signs in the context of the vast amount of hard evidence of the harm caused by fossil fuels - summarised here, but detailed in the report with SO many links and references etc....all of this is real-time stuff, not projections or forecasts.

17.02.2026 20:05 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Are there pics?

16.02.2026 21:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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China's emissions are flatlining — and may be falling — in critical turning point for biggest emitter, report says The carbon emissions of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter have plateaued for nearly two years.

China - two-year flatline or fall is the longest on record www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

16.02.2026 09:20 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Death-cycle might be more appropriate

15.02.2026 10:45 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
If we're going to hold an inquiry into the life cycle of solar, why not coal and gas? Australia's solar waste investigation raises an interesting question of consistency. Where is the inquiry into mandatory 100% recycling of fossil fuel waste streams?

reneweconomy.com.au/if-were-goin...

15.02.2026 09:20 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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'It's telling us there's something big going on': Unprecedented spike in atmospheric methane during the COVID-19 pandemic has a troubling explanation During the COVID-19 pandemic, the atmosphere temporarily lost its ability to break down methane, leading to a huge spike in the greenhouse gas.

www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

14.02.2026 23:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fortescue launches its first electric locomotives - with batteries the size of more than 200 Tesla EVs Fortescue has launched the first of its massive battery trains, which it says the hardest part of its goal to eliminate fossil fuels by 2030.

New toys reneweconomy.com.au/fortescue-la...

14.02.2026 23:25 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0