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  • 24 Nov 2015
    • Sustainability
    • Energy

    Winning the coal endgame: Why a moratorium on new mines makes economic sense

  • 19 Nov 2015
    • Global Economy
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    • Climate change

    Witness a global tipping point: The beginning of the end of coal

  • 7 Oct 2015
    • Global Economy
    • G20
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    G20 lacking ambition on climate change

    Tristram Sainsbury
  • 14 Sep 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Australian Perspective
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    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Australia and Asia
    • Foreign Policy
    • Nuclear energy

    Reader riposte: Australia-India nuclear deal

  • 11 Sep 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Defence & Security
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    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Defence Intelligence and Security
    • Australian Perspective
    • Asia Pacific Security
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
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    • Australian Diplomacy
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    • Nuclear energy

    Australia-India nuclear deal: Parliamentary treaties committee recommends tough conditions

    John Tilemann
  • 10 Sep 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
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    • Climate change
    • Energy

    Indian exceptionalism and realistic responses to climate change

    Samir Saran
  • 9 Sep 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
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    • Climate change
    • Energy

    Humanity's carbon countdown

    Julian Snelder
  • 20 Aug 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Global Economic Governance
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    • Climate change
    • Energy
    • Nuclear energy

    Why we still need UN climate negotiations

    Seb Henbest
  • 11 Aug 2015
    • Sustainability
    • Resource security

    Lebanon's garbage crisis reveals political paralysis

    Vanessa Newby
  • 9 Jul 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Regional relationships
    • Sustainability
    • Asia and the Middle East
    • Energy
    • Nuclear energy

    Sino-Pakistan civil nuclear cooperation: A growing challenge to the global nuclear order

    Matthew Cottee
  • 1 Jul 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Australian Perspective
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Sustainability
    • Australia and Asia
    • Climate change
    • Energy

    China makes its formal climate-change pledge

    Frank Jotzo
  • 24 Jun 2015
    • Global Economy
    • Country And Regional Studies
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    • Energy

    MRC bows out of Don Sahong discussions

    Milton Osborne
  • 16 Jun 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Australia
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    Lowy poll: On China and energy, Australia maintains its sunny disposition

    Euan Graham
  • 15 Jun 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Development Assistance
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    • Climate change
    • Energy

    The road to Paris: Ten days and counting

    Erwin Jackson
  • 11 May 2015
    • Global Economy
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    • G20
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    • Resource security
    • Climate change

    Is the G20 getting serious about climate change?

    Hannah Wurf
  • 9 Apr 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Climate change

    Inclusive growth should not be the G20's game

    Leon Berkelmans
  • 2 Apr 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Australian Perspective
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    • Climate change

    Post-2020 emission target a test for Australia

    Erwin Jackson
  • 27 Mar 2015
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    • Australian Development Assistance
    • Resource security
    • Australia and the Pacific
    • Development Assistance
    • Climate change

    Cyclone Pam: A photo essay from a volunteer

  • 24 Feb 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Asia and Pacific
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Country And Regional Studies
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    Can LNG continue to fuel Papua New Guinea's economic growth?

    Paul Barker
  • 13 Feb 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Australian Diplomacy
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    • Climate change
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    • Nuclear energy

    SA's Royal Commission into nuclear energy: Let's talk about waste

    John Tilemann
  • 5 Feb 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Australian Perspective
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    • Australian trade, investment & economy
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    Australia is not meeting its IEA oil reserve targets

    Christian Downie
  • 3 Feb 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Nuclear energy

    India nuclear deal needs serious parliamentary scrutiny

    John Tilemann
  • 19 Jan 2015
    • Global Issues
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    • Country And Regional Studies
    • Sustainability
    • Global Economic Governance
    • IMF
    • Resource security
    • Energy

    Indonesia leads on petrol subsidies, but will others follow?

    Stephen Grenville
  • 15 Jan 2015
    • Global Economy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Sustainability
    • Resource security
    • Australia and Asia

    Cambodia's controversial dam seems set to go ahead

    Milton Osborne
  • 13 Jan 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability

    City limits: How big will China's megacities get?

    Julian Snelder
  • 12 Jan 2015
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Sustainability
    • Energy
    • Geo-economics

    Oil drops 50%, world shrugs

    Stephen Grenville
  • 16 Dec 2014
    • Global Issues
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    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Sustainability
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • International Relations
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    • Climate change

    Lima climate conference: Slow movement on Planet UNFCCC

    Fergus Green
  • 30 Oct 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change
    • Energy

    China's coal addiction

    Julian Snelder
  • 22 Sep 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Diplomacy
    • Australian Perspective
    • Sustainability
    • Australian Diplomacy
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • United Nations
    • Foreign Policy
    • Climate change

    UN Climate Change Summit: A chance for Australia's environmental diplomacy

    Saleem Ali
  • 27 Aug 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    The environment and the news cycle

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 19 Aug 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    A breakthrough in Chinese climate policy? Not likely

    Julian Snelder
  • 4 Aug 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change
    • Energy

    Just how expensive is renewable energy?

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 30 Jul 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change
    • Energy

    From the comments thread: Green energy

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 28 Jul 2014
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    Green power still too expensive

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 25 Jul 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    Climate action: Public opinion is not the problem

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 24 Jul 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Sustainability
    • Resource security
    • Climate change

    China: Climate wrecker or climate leader?

    Lisa Williams
  • 21 Jul 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    Carbon tax repeal: Learning from Europe

    Graham Palmer
  • 17 Jul 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    Australia's next climate push must come from the right

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 17 Jul 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    Australia's carbon price repeal: The global context

    Fergus Green
  • 3 Jul 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Public Opinion
    • Australian Perspective
    • Sustainability
    • Australia
    • Climate change

    Australians shifting on climate change

    Erwin Jackson
  • 27 Jun 2014
    • Global Economy
    • Sustainability
    • Resource security

    The economic impact of environmental crime

    Marty Harris
  • 24 Jun 2014
    • Global Economy
    • Asia and Pacific
    • The Asia Pacific's Economies
    • Sustainability
    • Resource security
    • Climate change

    Asia's coal demand: You ain't seen nothing yet

    Stephen Grenville
  • 23 Jun 2014
    • Global Economy
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    Climate change: Asia leads, but not in a good way

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 20 Jun 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Global Economy
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    Climate change: Australia takes it seriously, and so should Abbott

    Khalid Koser
  • 17 Jun 2014
    • Global Economy
    • Sustainability
    • Resource security
    • Climate change

    Climate and energy policy merging, but where is Australia?

    Paul Bourke
  • 12 Jun 2014
    • Global Economy
    • G20
    • Sustainability
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Climate change

    Climate change: The G20 can add value

    Hugh Jorgensen
  • 14 May 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    Climate change, migration and the importance of the international order

    Albert Palazzo
  • 30 Apr 2014
    • Global Issues
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change
    • Nuclear energy

    Movie trailer: Godzilla

    Sam Roggeveen
  • 24 Apr 2014
    • Global Economy
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    China's 'syngas': Bad economics, bad science and an environmental catastrophe

    Julian Snelder
  • 14 Apr 2014
    • Global Economy
    • Sustainability
    • Climate change

    IPCC and clean energy: Easy on the optimism

    Sam Roggeveen
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