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Peter Sainsbury

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Environment: Australia’s exported greenhouse gas emissions are double our domestic emissions

Environment: Australia’s exported greenhouse gas emissions are double our domestic emissions
22.02.2025 10

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Peter Sainsbury

Environment: States and territories to reduce their emissions by 44% by 2030

Environment: States and territories to reduce their emissions by 44% by 2030
15.02.2025 9

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Peter Sainsbury

Environment: Australia unlikely to play its proper part in keeping warming under 1.5°C

Environment: Australia unlikely to play its proper part in keeping warming under 1.5°C
08.02.2025 7

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Environment: One giant leap for mankind was nothing compared with today’s challenges

01.02.2025 7

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Environment: Accelerating towards a collision with the climate

25.01.2025 9

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Environment: Warming, thawing Arctic presents problems for everyone

The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the globe and the effects are global. Bacteria responsible for escalating methane emissions. The...

21.12.2024 2

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Environment: Global plastic pollution treaty talks collapse

Should we focus on the plastic or the pollution to eliminate plastic pollution? How to ensure that climate action produces a fairer, more...

14.12.2024 3

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Environment: Australia opposes nations’ legal obligations to tackle climate change

International Court of Justice to provide advice on nations’ climate change obligations. SE Australia and WA to experience more heat waves than...

07.12.2024 3

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Environment: Climate protesters blockade Newcastle’s coal port despite government bans

Draconian laws don’t discourage climate protesters. Hydrogen’s rainbow of colours. CCS continues to underperform. Clean energy investments...

30.11.2024 5

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Environment: The future of humanity hangs in the balance

‘We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster’, scientists conclude. Donkeys: feral pests or nature’s saviours? Climate change threatens...

23.11.2024 2

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Environment: Carbon capture and storage – what’s the real goal?

Carbon capture and storage fails to deliver carbon but succeeds for governments and industry. The pros and cons of reducing your personal carbon...

16.11.2024 3

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Environment: Optimistic predictions for the energy transition

Renewable energy and its applications are pushing fossil fuels out of business – but will it be fast enough? Climate scientists are encouraged to...

15.09.2024 30

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Environment: Earth system tipping points threaten our stable environment

Dangerous tipping points threaten the stability of several of Earth’s natural climate-controlling systems. Conclusion: warming of 1.5oC is not...

07.09.2024 2

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Environment: The climate crisis is a health crisis

Climate change will soon be causing an additional 250,000 deaths per year worldwide – children are at particular risk. Only 4% of greenhouse gas...

31.08.2024 2

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Environment: using the law to drive (and retard) climate action

Climate activists are increasingly using the courts to challenge development approvals and change the law, but so are action delayers. Access to...

24.08.2024 1

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Environment: NSW’s environmental assessment process for logging ignores the previous 200 years

Ignoring 200 years of native forest logging underestimates the consequences of current logging. Beware of false solutions for plastic pollution....

17.08.2024 1

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Environment: Zambia has lots of copper but will Zambians benefit?

The green transition needs copper but how do poor copper-rich countries reap the rewards? The hydrogen-energy balloon is floating away. Underground...

10.08.2024 1

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Environment: Peak oil is close but the descent will be slow

Peak oil is imminent but it will be a long time before we return to base camp. China surging ahead with solar while continuing to burn coal. NATO...

03.08.2024 2

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Environment: burning wood in power stations doesn’t help the climate

The living, not our forebears, have put most of the CO2 into the atmosphere. Substituting wood for coal in power stations doesn’t reduce CO2...

21.07.2024 10

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Environment: will humans behave like monkeys when climate apocalypse strikes?

Summers right across the northern hemisphere are getting hotter but vegetation can lower the temperature locally. Macaques show humans how to cope...

13.07.2024 4

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Peter Sainsbury