Ryan Cropp
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Ryan Cropp
@ryancropp.bsky.social
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Energy and Climate Reporter at the Australian Financial Review — Author of Donald Horne (2023) — Get in touch: [email protected] Signal: ryancropp.91
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And failed to land the COP bid
Just need windfarms to do the same and the transition will be in the bag
“The Australian Financial Review supports Australia reaching net zero by 2050 to help tackle global warming. We also back the sensible 62 to 70 per cent interim 2035 emissions reduction target announced by the Albanese government last month”

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Labor should seize the decarbonisation policy certainty challenge
Albanese’s government should focus on nailing down the policy settings needed to accelerate emission cuts and connect more clean generation and storage to the mains.
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Don’t listen to these nerds, there’s no better paper in the country
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Somewhat reminiscent of Heywood interconnector upgrade a decade ago that was supposed to be finished before the Northern brown coal fired power station closure

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Australia’s Foreign Affairs Department is operating without its top climate diplomat as the Albanese government struggles to lock in the international support required to secure its bid to host a major UN summit in Adelaide in 2026.

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Diplomatic void clouds Labor’s climate summit bid
The Albanese government has left a key diplomatic post vacant as it scrambles to secure hosting rights for a major UN climate summit next year.
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Here's the FY25 "we're only adding RE at ~1/2 the rate needed" update .. 🥲

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NEW: The National Party has appointed outspoken critic of Australia’s net zero emissions target, Matt Canavan, to a two-man internal committee tasked with reviewing the party’s policy on the issue.

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Canavan to ‘review’ Nationals’ position on net zero
The most outspoken critic of the Nationals’ net zero policy is one of only two members of an internal party review of the policy.
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Tomago aluminium smelter, the nation’s largest electricity user, is in urgent talks to secure billions of dollars in support from the NSW and federal governments to save it from collapse due to crippling energy costs.

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Rio pushes for ‘eye-watering’ Tomago bailout
Australia’s largest electricity user is seeking billions in direct government support to cover spiralling power costs.
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To be fair they did approve the two big Windlab projects
The government is poised to sign off on an extension to Woodside’s NW Shelf gas development after Anthony Albanese said the transition to renewable energy could not proceed without gas as a back-up — before announcing he would hold a cabinet meeting in Perth next week.

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Labor poised to approve NW Shelf gas project
The Albanese government has given its strongest signal yet that it will approve Woodside’s long-delayed gas development.
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Landfill sites that earn carbon offsets for capturing excess gas emitted from rotting waste will face stricter regulations under a new proposal designed to improve the integrity of the federal government’s carbon credits scheme.

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Landfill carbon offset companies face stricter rules
The government is considering tightening the rules around carbon offsets earned by landfill sites.
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Nearly a third of the carbon credits bought by Australia’s top emitting companies last year were based on an offsetting technique that has been banned for future projects after a government review found it would be ineffective at reducing emissions.
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Companies ‘claim credit for keeping forests they never meant to clear’
A carbon market expert says many of the offsets purchased by Australia’s top emitters last year were of low integrity.
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Several large coal mines have slashed their annual carbon emissions by more than half as a result of mandated changes to accounting methods that have prompted experts to question the reliability of key data underpinning one of Labor’s flagship climate policies.

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Accounting change scrambles coal mine emissions
Changes to measurement methods have led several major coal mines to report drastically lower carbon emissions in 2024.
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