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Exposing Canavan’s Coal Slush Fund
The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility: secretive, compromised and currently considering giving $1 billion of public money to the climate-wrecking Carmichael coal mine. But the good news is that the Federal Parliament has just authorised a Senate inquiry into the NAIF, to get to the bottom of the conflict of interest and secrecy at the heart…
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How Australia’s coal exports industry threatens climate crisis
Australia’s coal is powering a global surge in an especially polluting type of steel production, and exporting a massive amount of greenhouse gases — 88% as much as it produces domestically. Australia’s coal is powering a global surge in an especially polluting type of steel production, and exporting a massive amount of greenhouse gases —…
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REPORT: Steeling the Future
This report highlights the role that Australia’s metallurgical coal exports have played in the increasing global use of blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace-based steel production, the most greenhouse gas emission intensive process to produce steel
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Trump just proved that action on climate change is unstoppable
People all across the globe are resisting US President Trump’s attempts to derail action on climate change. Trump’s move to pull the US out of the historic Paris Agreement has been overwhelmingly condemned by government and business leaders the world over. People all across the globe are resisting US President Trump’s attempts to derail action on climate change.…
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‘My daughter isn’t born yet, but I worry about the world I’m bringing her into.’
Nicola Bowskill was one of dozens of local community members who took their dirty laundry to the Newcastle coal port in an effort to let Commonwealth Bank know about the devastating consequences of their lending to fossil fuel companies. Nicola Bowskill was one of dozens of local community members who took their dirty laundry to the…
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This is exactly how terrible Trump’s climate change decision is
President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate accords has tangible costs for the entire world. Here are five ramifications we can expect to see. Originally published on Mamamia 1. The US could become the highest emitting country in the world America is currently the second largest contributor globally of…
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Donald Trump Has Betrayed His Youngest Child’s Future
Eleven-year-old American Barron William Trump was born in 2006. If he has the current average lifespan of a white American male, he will live in to the 2080s. It is possible that well before the end of Barron’s life the world will have begun descending into chaos caused by out of control global warming. Eleven-year-old…
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Trump abandons the Paris Climate Agreement. How bad is that?
In short, yes it’s bad. But the world moves on. Greenpeace International Executive Director Jennifer Morgan answers your questions. In short, yes it’s bad. But the world moves on. Greenpeace International Executive Director Jennifer Morgan answers your questions. What does Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement mean for the fate of the climate?…