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Labor misses the mark with weak climate policy

Labor has released the climate policy it will take to the Federal election. It's less ambitious than their previous policy and falls well short of what's required to help rein in global warming. The test for Labor is not whether they can promise something a bit better than one of the worst...

Nationals demand coal in exchange for net-zero

The National Party, behaving more like a lobby group than a party of government, has set its terms for a net-zero target - no stronger 2030 emissions reduction target and for coal to continue into the 2050s. Any net-zero target set with these conditions would have exactly zero effect in tackling...

Investor revolt rocks AGL

Yesterday’s annual general meeting of the nation’s biggest climate polluter, AGL, was a veritable bloodbath with Chairman Peter Botten hammered with a tsunami of questions on the company’s shocking environmental record, UN and IEA calls for a 2030 coal closure deadline and AGL’s billion-dollar...

AGL blowing coal smoke and bleeding cash

In today’s news, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, AGL, has posted a more than $2 billion loss as the rise of renewable energy shakes up the market and plunders the profit margins of coal power producers. And the reality may be finally sinking in at AGL with the embattled company’s CEO calling...

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