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Party leader confirms he will consider dumping Coalition’s third round of tax cuts Anthony Albanese has attempted to leave himself breathing room as the Labor party debates setting emission reduction targets for the 2030s, saying he will go to the next federal election with “interim targets or a pathway”. During an appearance on the ABC’s

The government needs to stop subsidising high-carbon heating and use the extra revenue to support low-income homes, writes Libby Peake of the Green Alliance Experts are right to raise the alarm about the climate impacts of how we heat our homes. That the UK is on course to take 700 years to achieve low-carbon heating

Publication date: February 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 180 Author(s): Jonathan Peillex, Imane El Ouadghiri, Mathieu Gomes, Jamil Jaballah

We’re not in ‘Kansas’ any more, and nor should we hanker to return, because many Australians weren’t faring well there If there is a movie that offers an analogy for the federal budget and its place in Australia’s response to Covid, it might be the Wizard of Oz, released the month before the start of

Rising emissions of nitrous oxide from farming are putting world on track to exceed 2C heating The spread of intensive farming is threatening to jeopardise the world’s chances of meeting the terms of the Paris agreement on the climate crisis, as the increasing use of artificial fertiliser and growing populations of livestock are raising the

Publication date: January 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 179 Author(s): Aires Afonso Mbanze, Carina Vieira da Silva, Natasha Sofia Ribeiro, José Lima Santos

Aurora Energy Research calculates investment would have to quadruple capacity Boris Johnson’s bold new vision for offshore wind to power every home in the UK by 2030 would require almost £50bn in investment and the equivalent of one turbine to be installed every weekday for the whole of the next decade. The huge investment, calculated