The lack of coherent Federal clean energy policy is beginning to impact investment, with investors citing significant uncertainty about the Morrison government’s policy direction as a “dead weight”.

The stalling of coal closure under the guise of cost and reliability has been further proven a fallacy, with the energy market operator revealing wholesale electricity prices soared 141 per cent in the first quarter compared to last year due to coal plant outages and coal market bids.

PM Scott Morrison is branding Labor’s climate policy forcing big polluters to reduce emissions or offset them quickly a “sneaky carbon tax” as the Coalition’s infighting over its own flimsy net zero commitment rages on. 

The Coalition’s commitment to its flimsy “plan” to get Australia to net-zero emissions by 2050 is in question after members of the Nats described the target as “flexible” and “non-binding” with one going so far as to call the goal “dead”.

The Greens have injected a new idea into the “same old” of this election campaign, proposing that coal and gas companies should be able to sued for the damage caused by the recent flood crisis.

Transport emissions rose by more than 12 per cent in the final months of 2021 as lockdowns lifted, according to a new report which called for emissions cuts by replacing fossil fuel energy with renewables, and electrifying households, industry and transport as fast as possible.

The failure and unreliability of coal power have been laid bare as AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, suffered an outage at its Loy Yang A coal-burning power station which could last through Victoria’s winter. 

When it comes to the vexed issue of climate change, neither the Coalition nor the Labor Party has a great story to tell. But that hasn’t stopped them from claiming they are not as bad as the other side. That campaign kicked off this week with some old-fashioned scare-mongering around power prices...

The US is singling out countries that failed to lift their climate targets at last year’s COP26 summit in Glasgow, urging Australia to increase its Abbott era, 2030 emission reduction pledge this year to help prevent further destruction.

The first study to quantify the impact of pledges made before and during COP26 has concluded there is a 50 per cent chance of keeping warming below 1.9 or 2 degrees by the end of the century, while new emissions cuts are needed to limit increases to 1.5 degrees.