The roadmap predicts that by the 2030s, the sector could boost Australia’s annual GDP by around A$10 billion, create 26,200 jobs and reduce emissions by about 9%.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joins a panel discussion on carbon pricing at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 2, 2021.
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At COP26, governments will have to consider how climate policies help them achieve their emissions targets and affect economies.
Even if additional energy production capacity was added to the national grid through renewables, questions remain about whether access will be equitable and affordable.
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Reach net zero requires policies spanning energy, industry, transport, agriculture, land use, even trade. Climate change is a whole-of-government issue. It’s every minister’s problem.
Developments in the energy sector shouldn’t be reduced to technological sophistication. They should be guided by how they improve the livelihoods of the intended beneficiaries.
Reducing fossil use and increasing renewable energy worldwide are crucial to both sustainable development and fighting climate change.
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Energy and climate policies aren’t always headed in the same direction, but if they work together they can tackle two of the biggest challenges of our time.
The new commitments of state governments go some way to filling the void left by the lack of a national climate policy. The states should, and can, coordinate their efforts. Here’s how.
The use of coal for electric power has been declining fast in the U.S.
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The Texas electric power market is designed to give energy companies incentive to sell electricity at the lowest possible cost. That focus helps explain why it collapsed during a historic cold wave.
Infrastructure, such as power lines and poles, is of no use if households can’t afford electricity and aren’t connected to the grid.
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Zimbabwe’s policy makers believe that deforestation is a threat to the economy, but citizens believe environmental degradation is an outcome of the country’s dire political and economic situation.
A worker checks the installation of a solar panel array atop an IKEA store in Miami.
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It has been another huge week in news, with coronavirus spikes in Melbourne, an investigation into former High Court judge Dyson Heydon, and a Labor plan for an energy policy framework.
The Groningen gas field in the Netherlands was discovered in 1959, and is the largest natural gas field in Europe.
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