net-zero 2050

Decisions now lock in industry emissions for decades: here’s how to get them right

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.

Climate Change

Unless we act now, a hotter, drier, more dangerous future for Australia awaits: IPCC

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."

Analysis

Japan plans to almost halve LNG for power by 2030

Crunch time for Australian LNG: True Paris-aligned emissions targets kill demand and ammonia hopes are too small, too late and probably green.

Carbon Emissions

Woodside’s real plan for Pluto LNG: delay action, not reduce emissions

Woodside's Pluto net-zero 2050 plan is greenwashing, leaving 70% of cuts to the last five years despite investors telling CEO Meg O'Neill they want tangible speedy progress.

Carbon Emissions

BHP climate target skips massive Australian oil & gas emissions

BHP's climate target excludes the Bass Strait, North West Shelf and future Scarborough LNG on the incorrect basis that the operator controls the emissions, not the joint owners.

Climate Change

Net-zero emissions by 2050 needs immediate halt to new oil, gas and coal projects: IEA

New fossil fuel projects must end today for the world to navigate a "viable but narrow pathway to net-zero emissions by 2050," according to the International Energy Agency.

Strike Energy

Clouded future of gas in WA drives Strike Energy to urea

Strike Energy's Stuart Nicholls regards the WA gas market as a dangerous place to be as new cheap supply comes in as the big resource players prepare to move away from fossil fuels.

Energy Transition

The budget is a flight of fancy ignoring Australia’s low-emissions future

In this week's budget the Morrison Government ignored clean energy and instead took a long-odds bet that carbon capture and storage will allow fossil fuels to carry on untouched by climate concerns.

Carbon Emissions

Environment watchdog wants Chevron plan for net-zero Wheatstone LNG emissions by 2050

Chevron's Wheatstone LNG is in the firing line of a new approach from the WA Environmental Protection Authority that forced big emissions cuts from the Waitsia gas project.

net-zero 2050

Climate crisis: hope of staying within 1.5°C vital to spurring global action

Global warming can be limited to 1.5°C with commitments now to significant emissions reductions this decade, and in a circular logic, those commitments need faith that climate change can be tamed.

Climate Change

Why net-zero emissions pledges should be met with scepticism

The world does not have room to plant enough trees to provide "right to pollute" offsets for companies claiming net-zero by 2050 and more actual reductions in emissions are required.

net-zero 2050

Big WA polluters fail green investment test

Most big WA carbon polluters including Chevron, Adbri, South32 and Woodside are wanting on emissions reduction targets, strategy and cash, according to benchmarking for the world's biggest investors.

Carbon Emissions

Ten hurdles to Twiggy's green vision for FMG

Andrew Forrest has put his iron ore miner FMG on a fast track to net-zero emissions by 2030. Achieving high speed on a rocky road will not be easy.

Iron Ore

Forrest pushes FMG to be net-zero emissions by 2030

Ever-ambitious Andrew Forrest wants iron ore miner FMG to be carbon neutral by 2030 with the use of green electricity, hydrogen and ammonia.

net-zero 2050

Australia will face carbon levies unless it changes course

President Biden's carbon tariff plan is aimed at China but Australian exporters will be collateral damage unless the Federal Government adopts real measures to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

Carbon capture and storage

Inpex moves to clean up Ichthys' dirty LNG

A year after Inpex rejected carbon capture and storage at Ichthys LNG as unaffordable it is an essential element in its new drive to slash emissions by 2030.

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Fracking

Kimberley fracker expects to escape WA gas export ban

Black Mountain expects the McGowan Government to soon waive its gas export ban but fracking the gas must wait for two years of environmental studies.

Climate Change

A global carbon price could soon be a reality: Australia should prepare

A carbon price and dividend could help households and shield Australian exporters from coming EU and US carbon border taxes: UNSW economics professor.

Carbon Emissions

Zali Steggall's climate change bill comes as business steps up

Independent MP Zali Steggall's climate change bill aims to take the short term politics out of climate change at the national level and replace it with science, economics and certainty.

Carbon Emissions

US under Biden will rejoin the Paris climate agreement and Australia will feel the heat

When a Biden-led USA rejoins the Paris Agreement and takes strong climate action Scott Morrison will have few international allies for his stubborn idleness.

Carbon Emissions

South Korea joins China, Japan in net-zero in $80B squeeze on Australian fossil exports

South Korea, Japan and China's tightened climate goals will crunch Australian thermal coal, make LNG investments harder and possibly kill Santos' Barossa LNG project.

Carbon Emissions

Japan's net-zero by 2050 to hit Australian exports

A $40 billion market for Australian coal and LNG exports just became less welcoming with Japan's commitment to zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Carbon Emissions

Australia’s biggest LNG buyer JERA chases zero CO2 emissions by 2050

Japan's JERA, the major buyer of Australian LNG, has embraced zero emissions by 2050 in another signal that the clock is ticking on this major export.

LNG

A greener world is a dark outlook for Aussie LNG: IEA

Prospects for LNG are under a shadow if Paris Agreement emissions cuts are pursued, according to the IEA, leaving Woodside and Santos in a very dark place.

Power Generation

WA plans a slow move to greener power

Rooftop solar will make South-West WA power greener, but there is no path outlined for Collie's future or to net-zero by 2050, according to a WA Government study.