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Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) @accr.bsky.social · 1d

Electricity demand is growing around the world but the growth in solar and wind was so strong it met 100% of the extra electricity demand, even helping drive a slight decline in coal and gas use. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 2d

Oh:
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

www.bloomberg.com

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 7d

The naturalist Jane Goodall died today at 91. Hope, she argued, is not merely “passive wishful thinking” but a “crucial survival trait.” Revisit a conversation with Goodall, from 2021: nyer.cm/F55JtsS

An image of Jane Goodall and a chimpanzee, from 1965. Photo courtesy CBS Photo Archive / Getty.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 9d

Dining with dinosaurs...

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 9d

Melbourne’s men-only Savage Club ends trial of allowing women entry to dine two days a week

Members were told on Tuesday the mixed dining trial was over three months earlier than planned The men-only Melbourne Savage Club has pulled the pin on allowing women to lunch there two days a week – but has left its exclusive doors open to potential future female participation. Under the “Female Dining Initiative”, the private club trialled mixed dining on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. “Lady guests” were allowed to have a pre-lunch tipple in the Social Room and lunch in the Dining Room. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 13d

First they came for the renovators, and I did nothing, because I'm not a renovator...

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 13d

On why Trump is wrong on climate, renewable energy, the next economic growth cycle, on powering data centres cost-efficiently, and on geo-economics. Very good by the FT‘s Gillian Tett.
on.ft.com/3KkjVcU

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 13d

Wonder if Starmer will find room in his speech to acknowledge the objective fact a century of escalating climate impacts means global migration will massively increase. We either find a way to effectively and humanely manage that fact, rather than deny it, or things will get very dark very quickly.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16d

WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

Saturn Ion commercial

YouTube video by Eliyahu Biton

youtube.com

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Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · 17d

Learn what makes good public policy at our October ‘Changing public policy’ course.

Grattan policy experts Peter Breadon and Trent Wiltshire will teach you how to communicate evidence and navigate reform blockages.

Register now: buff.ly/QOXuUOX

A promotional graphic promoting the Changing public policy course, featuring pictures of the two speakers Peter Breadon and Trent Wiltshire.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 20d

Cracker of a chart

Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 26d

The fastest energy transformation in human history

@fssau.futuresmart.com.au

expanded graph for pace of adoption of electricity generation by source from >100TWh annual generation threshold point

pace of adoption of electricity generation by source from >100TWh annual generation threshold point

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21d

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21d

"I saw the message on her son’s t-shirt: Always be kind. ...that word 'always,' on a boy’s chest in the middle of a city that has been pounded for three years, has to be there, as a reminder that ideals are ideals, and that they are part of reality."
snyder.substack.com/p/always-be-...

Always be kind

An unexpected wartime slogan

snyder.substack.com

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 22d

NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly)

🧵quick thread

www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 23d

To journalists various: the issue is not whether the coalition tears itself apart over climate denialism… the issue is whether we do what we can to save our home.
Stop reporting the goddam horse race.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 23d

(1) is not worth engaging with. My response to (2) is - Australia is the developed nation with the most to lose from climate change - so if you're outsourcing the response, that implies you think China and the US have our best interests at heart...

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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 23d

“modelling suggests an increase in heat-related mortality of 444% for Sydney”

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

What happens to Australia when the world warms by 3C? It's revealed in this report

For the first time, the government has modelled the threats from climate change on Australia's future. What’s the point of a document like this, and can it help us avoid the worst-case scenarios?

www.abc.net.au

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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 23d

Climate Risk Assessment Report:
💀 400% increase in heat deaths
🔥 1m homes uninsurable by 2050
🥵$211 billion in lost wealth from reduced labour productivity.

Uninsurable means unsellable, means ppl lose wealth, reduced tax revenue & economic recession for all

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#auspol

One million homes at 'very high risk' will be effectively uninsurable by 2050

One in 10 homes could be effectively uninsurable by 2050, while lost labour productivity to extreme weather could wipe $211 billion in household wealth, the Climate Risk Assessment warns, with tourism...

www.abc.net.au

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Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 23d

At what point are we going to realise that the wealth we will lose from reducing fossil fuel exports is trivial compared to the wealth we will lose from pumping all that CO2 into the atmosphere?
Will it be too late by then?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
#aupol

What happens to Australia when the world warms by 3C? It's revealed in this report

For the first time, the government has modelled the threats from climate change on Australia's future. What’s the point of a document like this, and can it help us avoid the worst-case scenarios?

www.abc.net.au

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Helen Haines MP @helenhainesindi.bsky.social · 23d

These findings are alarming, but not surprising.

Regional Australia is depending on strong climate action.

The Government’s carbon emission targets must reflect the severity of the findings released yesterday.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

First climate risk assessment finds 1.5m Australians at risk from sea level rise by 2050

One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment warns.

www.abc.net.au

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Tony Wood @tonyrwood.bsky.social · 23d

The hard work of giving Australians a view into a future world of unchecked climate changes has been done by the Australia Climate Service. It reinforces the current world of floods and fires for many Australians. We must act on the science and the facts - www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...

National Climate Risk Assessment

Learn about Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment.

www.acs.gov.au

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 23d

Re-upping this thread following the National Climate Risk Assessment and the latest LNP ructions.

If you want to aspire to any leadership position in this country, you must have a serious, coherent plan to respond to climate change. That's table stakes.

Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · May 20

I am going to quote-post every part of this thread, and substitute "LNP" for "Tories", because we are seeing the same tired, bad arguments play out in the same way.
Thanks you James for articulating is so well. 🧵⬇️

James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · May 13

As the Guardian article explains, the net zero target is not arbitrary. It is the best scientific estimate for keeping temperature increases in the range agreed under the Paris Agreement.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 24d

"Each year, nuclear adds as much net global capacity as renewables add every two days. Soaring renewables generate three times more global electricity than stagnant nuclear...

…China added 197 times more solar and wind than nuclear capacity, at half the cost."

www.utilitydive.com/news/nuclear...

Nuclear power is failing, and AI can’t rescue it

Nuclear generation is expensive and slow to develop. Claims that past failures won’t recur have convinced politicians to socialize investments rejected by private capital markets.

www.utilitydive.com

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · 27d

Salty! in more ways than one....

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · Sep 4

Want to come and work with me and @tonyrwood.bsky.social ? Maybe you should be our next Deputy Program Director or Senior Associate - see job ad below.

Applications close 14 September

Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're hiring for a Senior Associate/Deputy Program Director for our Energy and Climate Change Program!

Our ideal candidate has a deep understanding of the energy sector and related climate change issues, and experience in contributing to policy debates.

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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social · Sep 4

Want to come and work with me and @tonyrwood.bsky.social ? Maybe you should be our next Deputy Program Director or Senior Associate - see job ad below.

Applications close 14 September

Grattan Institute @grattaninstitute.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're hiring for a Senior Associate/Deputy Program Director for our Energy and Climate Change Program!

Our ideal candidate has a deep understanding of the energy sector and related climate change issues, and experience in contributing to policy debates.

Apply now at Ethical Jobs: buff.ly/0F3iM1w

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