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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · 5h

And failed to land the COP bid

Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · 7h

The billionaire’s pivot puts the focus on human health and adaptation. But giving up the emissions fight will just make the final bill far higher.

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Bill Gates is right: We must learn to live with climate change

The billionaire’s pivot puts the focus on human health and adaptation. But giving up the emissions fight will just make the final bill far higher.

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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · 6d

Just need windfarms to do the same and the transition will be in the bag

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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · 9d

“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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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · 28d

Don’t listen to these nerds, there’s no better paper in the country

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · Aug 6

White smoke has emanated from the department offices and a new acronym has been announced to guide the transition electricity sector: ESEM!

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Radical plan proposed to reinvent the energy market

The government should guarantee the long-term revenue of new renewable energy projects to ensure the security of the grid, according to a major new report.

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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · Jul 23

Somewhat reminiscent of Heywood interconnector upgrade a decade ago that was supposed to be finished before the Northern brown coal fired power station closure

(Story from @ryancropp.bsky.social here:
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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · Jul 22

You missed one

Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · Jul 9

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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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · Jul 7

Here's the FY25 "we're only adding RE at ~1/2 the rate needed" update .. 🥲

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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · Jun 19

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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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · Jun 6

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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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · May 26

To be fair they did approve the two big Windlab projects

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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · May 26

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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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · May 23

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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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · May 22

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Farmers warn: ‘Don’t make us carry the can on emissions’

Australian grain growers say strong climate targets could create an overreliance on offsets that will discourage direct emissions reductions.

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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · May 16

Clean energy advocates hope Labor can use the policy seeds planted in its first term to deliver its energy transition agenda. The reality will be much harder.

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Can Labor turn a big win into a green energy reality?

Clean energy advocates hope Labor can use the policy seeds planted in its first term to deliver its energy transition agenda. The reality will be much harder.

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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · May 11

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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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · May 7

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Renewables lobby leaderless after long-serving boss quits

Australia’s top industry advocate has stepped down less than a week after an election he called a “referendum on renewable energy”.

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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · May 6

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Bowen in line for top global climate role

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is a contender for one of the world’s top climate roles.

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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · May 6

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · May 2

Nice @ryancropp.bsky.social piece here - on why Labor talked about nuclear power way more than the Coalition did, during the election campaign:

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Why Labor won’t stop talking about nuclear power

Peter Dutton has described the Coalition’s nuclear policy as ‘visionary and necessary’. So why are government MPs the only ones talking about it?

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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · Apr 21

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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Ryan Cropp @ryancropp.bsky.social · Apr 17

LONG READ for your LONG WEEKEND:

Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court changed Australian politics. But has his success become a drag on the community independent movement he champions?
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‘Headless movements fall’: Can Holmes à Court maintain the rage?

Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court changed Australian politics. But has his success become a drag on the community independent movement he champions?

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Tennant Reed @tennantreed.bsky.social · Mar 26

Pretty good how’d-we-get-here piece in the Fin on power prices & reduction promises from @ryancropp.bsky.social

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Lots of interesting points made by @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social @tonyrwood.bsky.social and others

‘The big lie’: Why governments can’t deliver cheaper power

Political leaders have been promising lower power bills for two decades, but they should come clean about its true costs.

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