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• OPINION

  Why the government’s Carbon Credit “Integrity and Transparency” Bill will lock in dodgy offset projects

  Megan Evans

  Would you expect a forest to grow and remain permanently in the Outback? Me neither. Yet this is exactly where most of Australia’s 400+ “forest regeneration” (or “human induced regeneration, HIR) carbon offset projects are located, covering a total area bigger than Japan (38 million hectares).

  

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• OPINION

  Victoria doesn’t have a gas shortage. It has a gas sales pitch

  Louise Morris

  In five days, the Carroll Labor Government approved a $1 billion gas project off Ninety Mile Beach and gave the green light to restart the Patricia-Baleen gas fields off the Gippsland coast. The state election is on 28 November. The timing is hard to miss.

  

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• WHAT'S NEW

  NSW Greens call for transparency around Mt Pleasant coal ‘Jobs Guarantee’

  By staff writers

  NSW Greens upper house member Sue Higginson has written to the state’s resource minister calling for the publication of a document at the centre of a controversial coal deal.

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• WHAT'S NEW

  Young Australians’ human rights complaint prompts UN intervention over fossil fuel expansion

  By Tegan George

  Two United Nations human rights experts have formally challenged the Albanese government over its continued approval of coal and gas projects, raising serious allegations about Australia’s failure to protect young people from worsening climate change. 

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• OPINION

  We took Australia’s failures to the UN. Now the government has some explaining to do

  Zhanāe Dodd & Maya Farmer

  About a year and a half ago, nine young people from right across this continent filed a human rights complaint with the UN against the Australian government over its failure to protect our lives and futures from climate disasters. We call ourselves Generation Justice and, with our legal team from Environmental Justice Australia, we took this bold step because frankly, we’re over it.

  

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• OPINION

  The Safeguard Mechanism is a key barrier to Australia’s fossil fuel phase-out 

  Ketan Joshi

  This is the first piece of seven in an ongoing series examining the remarkable flaws of the Safeguard Mechanism, updating our previous analyses with new data, facts and figures as a review of the scheme kicks into gear.

  

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• OPINION

  Hidden documents show WA regulator told Woodside years ago that Browse would cause 'irreversible' harm. We are only finding out now

  Louise Morris

  Documents obtained by Peter Milne in Boiling Cold and reported by The Guardian show, for the first time, what WA’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) really thinks of Woodside’s plan to drill for gas at Scott Reef. They are damning.

  

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• WHAT'S NEW

  Renewed calls to urgently stop floodplain harvesting after significant rain in northern NSW

  By staff writers

  The Minns Government is facing renewed calls to urgently impose a moratorium on floodplain harvesting after significant October rain in northwest New South Wales.

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• OPINION

  Australia must stand in partnership with the Pacific – not above it

  Ray Wills & Peter Newman

  Australia should back Pacific-led electrification with affordable finance, local skills and measurable benefits. But clean-energy partnerships cannot substitute for a credible plan to move away from coal, oil and gas. True friendship means listening to our neighbours, acting on shared responsibilities and matching clean-energy partnerships with a credible transition away from fossil fuels. This is a big opportunity to show a real partnership in the Transition.

  

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• OPINION

  New data shows the shocking scale of Australia’s exported climate harm

  Ketan Joshi

  Since Labor was elected in mid 2022, domestic emissions have fallen, on average, by about 0.6 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent each quarter. But exported emissions have risen, on average, by about 2.5 megatonnes.

  

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