WA Premier Roger Cook's core "Made in WA" election policy will be tested by his use of local content provisions to keep Chevron's WA engineers working in WA.
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Hydrogen was once sold as a universal climate fix — a clean, green wonder fuel for cars, homes, power grids and even global export - but reality has cooled that buzz.
The science is clear: achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 is humanity’s only hope of achieving some measure of climate security. It’s time to think deeply about our chances of getting there.
In The Hague this week, Australia worked hard to minimise the legal liability of major emitters and fossil fuel exporters for their contribution to climate change.
Thirty per cent of Australia's emissions come from industry like LNG and the Federal Government needs to start pushing change now to have any hope of achieving net-zero by 2050.
The latest science is clear: "Every fraction of a degree of global warming increases the likelihood and severity of many extremes...every effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions matters."
