Quick Climate Links: Applying magical thinking to the climate crisis - Sean Kelly
Australia's PM Scott Morrison (pictured) had taken advantage of what he saw as a split on G20 nations to advance his idea that fossil fuels still have a role to play in the future.
You can listen to this Radio National piece here: "G20 leaders water down their commitment to net-zero by 2050".
And the ABC explains: "How Australia earned its climate change reputation".
Australia Energy and Emissions Reductions Minister, Angus Taylor, parrots the hollow technology not taxes mantra and be heard here: "Energy Minister Angus Taylor refuses to detail cost to taxpayers of 2050 climate plan".
Other Quick Climate Links are:
"Morrison government climate plan will fail if solely reliant on technology, thinktank reports";
"Morrison tells G20 that, like the pandemic, science will tackle climate crisis"'
"Don’t rush into a hydrogen economy until we know all the risks to our climate";
"Scientists warn against global warming effect of hydrogen leaks";
"Idiocracy: Australian Coalition Government Mendacity, Corruption & Inaction Sabotaging COP26";
"Stand with young Australians calling for climate justice";
"Supreme Court Case: WOTCH vs VicForests";
"G20 offers little new on climate, leaving uphill task for COP26";
"COP26: World will try again to avert climate disaster";
"Thousands demonstrate in Rome as G20 discuss climate";
"Crisis, what crisis? Boom times for coal ahead of climate conference";
"Towards net zero: A practical plan for Australia’s governments";
"Biden and major world leaders face pressure on climate and Covid.";
"Eco-anxiety over climate crisis suffered by all ages and classes";
"The Climate Emergency and the Population Diversion";
"The New York Times Climate Hub";
"World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City";
"Net Zero Festival: The economic case for a net-zero industrial revolution";
"Net Zero Festival: Sir David King on tomorrow's net-zero world";
"How wildfires could unravel California’s climate progress";
"Climate Change Is Violent. Should the Fight Against It Be Too?";
"Meet the Young Activist Suing the UK Government Over Climate Change";
"The climate clock: What’s the world’s carbon budget, and what’s Australia’s share?";
"World Resources Institute COP26 Hub";
"How to Improve Climate Organizing";
"'Our last, best hope': Crucial COP26 climate summit opens with urgent call to action";
"‘We have left it too late’: COP26 unlikely to limit warming to 1.5C, scientists warn";
"Scott Morrison uses final G20 remarks to defend climate policy ahead of Cop26";
"Greenpeace on COP26: Emissions must halve by 2030";
"Climate change is the trade of the decade";
"Barnaby Joyce details some conditions attached to Nationals climate deal";
"How it happened: the Nats and net-zero";
"G-20 Climate Inertia Leaves COP26 Talks Needing a Breakthrough";
"Australia’s top economists back carbon price, say benefits of net-zero outweigh cost";
"Australian economy vulnerable to net-zero — but not from domestic policies";
"Climate change has driven farmers to despair and all we get is callous disregard";
"Canberra team guides big business through climate change shift";
"Impasse on climate could last for years";
"Small business urged to play critical role in net zero through power purchasing";
"‘Critical we pull our weight’: Ardern commits NZ to halve emissions by 2030";
"Economic hit from trading partners’ net-zero plans outweighs domestic risk";
"Coalition’s magical thinking won’t make climate crisis go away";
"CBA and CSIRO team up to decode climate effects on financial sector".
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