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  • 29 Feb 2024
    • Global Economy
    • Climate change

    A new global climate finance goal must balance need with political reality

    Georgia Hammersley , Melanie Pill
    Support from rich countries to poor ones is at the heart of the Paris Agreement – still the question remains how much?
  • 28 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    ASEAN-Australia cooperation in the clean energy transition

    Sharon Seah
    Big ambition is the order of the day.
  • 23 Feb 2024
    • Climate change
    • Bougainville
    • China and the Pacific
    • Papua New Guinea

    Geopolitics, but what of other Pacific players?

    Nic Maclellan
    Politics is a missing element of a new Lowy Institute assessment.
  • 15 Feb 2024
    • Asean
    • Southeast Asia
    • Australia
    • Climate change

    Go big or go home: Australia should invest at scale in Southeast Asia’s energy transition

    Michelle Lyons , Roland Rajah , Grace Stanhope
    The Paris Agreement will not succeed if the bid for net zero in Southeast Asia fails.
  • 12 Feb 2024
    • Australia
    • Defence & Security
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    Australia’s nuclear energy debate doesn’t have to be partisan

    Dron Parashar
    The technical merits of nuclear power as part of a mix of energy sources should be the foundation for debate here – as it is elsewhere globally.
  • 6 Feb 2024
    • Indonesia
    • Vietnam
    • Climate change

    One year into the Indonesia and Vietnam’s Just Energy Transition Partnerships

    Trang Nguyen
    It’s a long and winding road – but the destination is crucial.
  • 2 Jan 2024
    • Vietnam
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Vietnam’s challenge to wean off coal

    Trang Nguyen
    Fossil fuels have driven rapid growth but the country has pledged – with global help – to be carbon neutral by 2050.
  • 12 Dec 2023
    • Climate change
    • United Nations

    Down or out: The future of fossil fuels at COP28

    Michelle Lyons , Ryan Neelam
    Record attendance by oil, coal and gas lobbyists shows how seriously the industry is taking this conference – and the gap remaining to any deal.
  • 8 Dec 2023
    • Climate change
    • United Nations

    Half time at COP28: Reflections from Dubai

    Melanie Pill , Georgia Hammersley
    A new loss and damage fund is real progress­ – but on its own is far from enough.
  • 4 Dec 2023
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change
    • International law
    • Transnational Challenges
    • United Nations

    Learning to live in a world without progress

    Mark Beeson
    Optimistic about the trajectory of human society? That’s brave.
  • 1 Dec 2023
    • Defence & Security
    • France
    • Climate change
    • Pacific Islands

    France as a convening power in the Pacific: The Nouméa SPDMM

    Céline Pajon
    A little known regional dialogue offers France and other countries a chance to contribute to the “Pacific way”.
  • 1 Dec 2023
    • China
    • Climate change
    • United States

    COP28: A better climate for US-China relations?

    Saira Bano
    As rivalry dominates cooperation, shared concern on the environment is still held out as a chance to stabilise ties.
  • 28 Nov 2023
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Qatar
    • United Arab Emirates

    The regional realignment on display at COP28

    Achref Chibani
    Middle East nations that built riches on fossil fuels are now presenting as friends for the Global South in an energy transition.
  • 24 Nov 2023
    • Asean
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • Technology

    Driving the energy transition within ASEAN

    Nadira Asrifa , Ahmad Munawir Siregar
    Transportation is the life-blood of the regional economy but also a big contributor to environmental costs.
  • 24 Nov 2023
    • Debt
    • Climate change

    De-risking developing country debt

    Roland Rajah , Riley Duke
    Debt suspension clauses should be rolled out by Western lenders, including Australia.
  • 23 Nov 2023
    • Climate change
    • United Nations

    Global Goal on Adaptation: Shaping a new framework at COP28

    Georgia Hammersley , Melanie Pill
    Crafting a common metric might be a negotiator’s nightmare but it’s never been more urgent to help the world's most vulnerable.
  • 16 Nov 2023
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability

    Albanese is right to reject fossil fuel phaseouts

    Lachlan Carey
    The politics of climate change has to be paired with grasping the economics, too.
  • 9 Nov 2023
    • China
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Economic diplomacy: Labor’s green security state rises

    Greg Earl
    From Chinese wind turbines to temporary foreign workers, Australia faces difficult intersections between domestic and foreign policy.
  • 9 Nov 2023
    • Climate change
    • Sex and Gender

    COP28: Why a gender power divide threatens climate progress

    Sarah Morley , Isabelle Zhu-Maguire
    Global negotiations often sideline gender as a “women’s issue” rather than being essential to the response.
  • 9 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • IMF
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Multilateral Institutions
    • Sustainability

    Private finance cannot lead the global response to climate change

    Arth Mishra , Connor O’Brien
    Misplaced faith in private sector solutions delays the redistribution of trillions from developed countries and multilateral institutions.
  • 7 Nov 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership is a glass half full

    Tiza Mafira
    Momentum is building, but global pledges for no new fossil fuel expansion come with a lot of caveats.
  • 2 Nov 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Climate change
    • Vanuatu

    Measuring the climate cost to Pacific development

    Riley Duke , Gilliane De Gorostiza
    International assistance is not keeping up with intensifying rate and scale of disasters in the region.
  • 30 Oct 2023
    • Australia in the World
    • Global Issues
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • United States
    • US Elections

    The future isn’t what it used to be

    Mark Beeson
    Will a revolution be the way the world’s young people right the wrongs of the modern era?
  • 27 Oct 2023
    • Diplomacy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • United Nations
    • United Arab Emirates

    Climate negotiations in a fossil fuel state: What to expect from COP28

    Melanie Pill
    Even with outcomes uncertain, there are three big topics likely to dominate the upcoming talks in Dubai.
  • 20 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability
    • United Nations

    Can UNESCO save the Great Barrier Reef?

    Amy Capuano
    Climate change is a problem that confounds the original World Heritage model.
  • 19 Oct 2023
    • Mongolia
    • Energy
    • Resource security
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Mongolia’s critical role in the global energy transition

    Byambajav Dalaibuyan , Vigya Sharma
    Many suitors are eager to assist the country in realising its natural resources potential. But are all the deals win-win?
  • 18 Oct 2023
    • Aid & Development
    • Climate change

    Crafting a new loss and damage fund

    Melanie Pill
    Harnessing philanthropic finance and emulating features from existing solutions could be a match made in heaven.
  • 16 Oct 2023
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • United Nations

    Global South activists seek a human rights framework for the climate crisis

    Clare Francis
    A groundswell movement was evident as leaders gathered at the UN last month to make sure the people most affected are heard.
  • 3 Oct 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Five reasons why the government mustn’t cool its heels on an “Australian IRA”

    Elizabeth Thurbon , Alexander M. Hynd , Hao Tan
    What cause could be more important than the economic, energy, and environmental security of the nation and the future of the planet?
  • 22 Sep 2023
    • Asylum seekers and refugees
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Middle East

    Libya’s unlearnable lessons

    Mark Beeson
    Many of the world’s current crises didn’t need to happen. Why the least responsible are still paying the price.
  • 19 Sep 2023
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability
    • United Nations

    Global Stocktake: Unlocking trillions for climate action

    Frank Jotzo , Michelle Lyons
    The Paris Agreement’s assessment of climate policies finds some good news, but massive room for improvement.
  • 15 Sep 2023
    • China
    • Taiwan
    • Defence & Security
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Beijing’s plan for Taiwan challenges its offshore wind push

    Joseph Webster , Zoe Leung
    Fujian’s coast hasn’t kept up with wind power in other provinces – and military strategy seems to be blowing the other direction.
  • 13 Sep 2023
    • Australia
    • Global Economy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Multilateral Institutions

    The crucial role for the Green Climate Fund – and why Australia should contribute

    Georgia Hammersley , Melanie Pill , Roland Rajah
    It’s vital to international climate solidarity and Australia rejoining is key to unlocking more global funding for the Pacific.
  • 4 Sep 2023
    • China
    • Climate change
    • United States

    Climate justice: friendshoring, China’s supremacy and America’s IR Act

    Michelle Lyons
    The goal of ensuring equitable outcomes through the energy transition must be global.
  • 31 Aug 2023
    • Climate change
    • Human rights
    • Pacific Islands

    Cultural security in the Pacific: Why it matters for regional security

    Anna Naupa
    Of all the complex and evolving threats to the region’s cultural heritage, climate change remains the most calamitous.
  • 29 Aug 2023
    • Australia
    • Australia and Climate Change
    • Climate change
    • Environment

    Climate change: Counting the costs and opportunities

    Ryan Neelam
    Australia needs to think beyond the price of transition and move quickly to become a renewable energy superpower.
  • 21 Aug 2023
    • Climate change

    Loss and damage: Thoughts on global climate fund reform

    Melanie Pill
    At COP28, an opportunity presents itself for a new funding model to help the world’s most climate vulnerable countries.
  • 18 Aug 2023
    • Japan
    • Timor-Leste
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Stepping on the gas: Boosting Australia’s climate diplomacy in the region

    Andrea Fahey
    Opponents of carbon capture plans need to look past ideology and think about the development costs to friends and neighbours.
  • 15 Aug 2023
    • Global Economy
    • Debt
    • Climate change

    The climate crisis demands sovereign debt justice

    Connor O’Brien
    Why should low-income countries pay the price for climate change?
  • 24 Jul 2023
    • Climate change
    • Environment
    • Sustainability

    Understanding “loss and damage” from climate change across the Indo-Pacific

    Melanie Pill
    A concept that will become ever more familiar – in the courts, too – with more action needed to avoid irreversible consequences of climate change.
  • 17 Jul 2023
    • Trade
    • Climate change
    • Sustainability
    • United Nations

    The cost-benefit of turning “dirty” shipping clean

    Joe Lo
    The engines of global trade pump out enormous amounts of carbon and vulnerable Pacific islands are fighting for a change.
  • 14 Jul 2023
    • Climate change

    Setting the standard: An important step on the path to net zero emissions

    Michelle Lyons
    A little-known international body has just helped set a global baseline for sustainability reporting.
  • 13 Jul 2023
    • Climate change
    • Pacific Islands

    Samoa and the Alliance of Small Islands States show climate security is also about loss and damage

    George Carter , Athaulla A Rasheed
    Adaptation and mitigation strategies alone will not be enough to recover from the effects of climate change.
  • 11 Jul 2023
    • Nuclear Weapons
    • Climate change
    • Coronavirus
    • Digital Disruption
    • Environment
    • Technology
    • Transnational Challenges

    Existential risk is a whole-of-society challenge

    Tom Barber
    From climate change and pandemics to nuclear war and extinction by AI, collective action will be imperative.
  • 7 Jul 2023
    • Climate change

    Paris climate summit: A new global financing pact takes shape

    Roland Rajah , Georgia Hammersley
    A failure? More a disappointment, and rich nations are at least starting to recognise a growing legitimacy deficit across the Global South.
  • 28 Jun 2023
    • Global Economy
    • Climate change
    • Multilateral Institutions

    Replenishing the Green Climate Fund

    Georgia Hammersley
    Delivering on a promise to help developing countries meet climate challenges remains critical.
  • 27 Jun 2023
    • India
    • India's Economy
    • Maldives
    • Australia and Asia
    • Climate change
    • Transnational Challenges

    To balance the Quad equation, India and Australia must drive an “Indo” focus

    Radhey Tambi
    The Bay of Bengal is an emerging hotspot for non-traditional security challenges that cross the entire region.
  • 2 May 2023
    • Japan
    • Australia
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    Managing Japan-Australia energy tensions in a time of transition

    James Bowen
    Australia can’t afford to support Japan’s carbon emissions anymore than its own.
  • 1 May 2023
    • Asia
    • Australia
    • Australia's Economy
    • Australian trade, investment & economy
    • Energy
    • Climate change

    Finding opportunity in Asia’s net-zero transition

    Muyi Yang
    Australia will miss out if it doesn’t prepare for lower coal and gas exports.
  • 28 Apr 2023
    • Indonesia
    • Climate change

    How Indonesia can afford to cut coal-fired power – and faster

    Tiza Mafira
    The Just Energy Transition Partnership can be a model for other countries to accelerate energy systems transformation.
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