In 2022, the government legislated Australia’s emissions reduction targets, “Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets of a 43% reduction from 2005 levels by 2030 and net zero by 2050.”
The Australian Government claims that Australia’s domestic emissions have fallen by 29% since 2005.
This claim suggests that Australia is well on its way to meeting its domestic emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement, even as the Australian Government subsidises and approves fossil fuel expansion.
But Australia is not actually decarbonising its economy and domestic fossil fuel emissions across the economy have changed very little under the Albanese Government (or previous governments).
Industry emissions (including stationary energy, fugitive emissions, and industrial processes) increased by 3% over the year 2023 while transport emissions also increased by 5%.
So how can Australia claim it is decarbonising when it is not?
On this episode of After America, Dr Emma Shortis and Alice Grundy reflect on the presidential campaign so far and on the dynamics of the Australia-United States relationship ahead of the third anniversary of the AUKUS deal.
This discussion was recorded on Friday 6 September 2024 and things may have changed since recording.
Join our webinar with Nick Bryant, former BBC United States correspondent and author of The Forever War, at 11am AEST on Thursday 12 September. Tickets are free, but registration is essential.
Host: Emma Shortis, Senior Research for International & Security Affairs, the Australia Institute // @EmmaShortis
Host: Alice Grundy, Research Manager, Anne Kantor Fellows, the Australia Institute // @alicekgt
The Fuel Tax Credits Scheme should be scrapped for the mining industry, not farmers, the Australia Institute has said in response to calls at today’s National Farmer Rally to keep the tax rebate for the agricultural industry.
133rd Henry George Commemorative Dinner Address by Professor Sock-Yong Phang, Singapore Management University, Kelvin Club, Melbourne, 15 August 2024 Value capture and affordable housing: insights from Singapore Good evening, everyone. Thank you, Dr Tim Helm for the kind introduction. And a big thank you to the Executive Committee members of Prosper Australia. I am […]
To mark PPE@10 this post continues a series of posts to celebrate ten years of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) as a blog that has addressed the worldliness of critical political economy issues since 2014.
From the beginning of February to the end of July this year the Past & Present Reading Group undertook a reading of Grundrisse. Meaning ‘rough plan’ or ‘draft’, Grundrisse is a series of seven notebooks written by Karl Marx between 1857-8. Unpublished in Marx’s lifetime, a defining feature of the work is its unfinished quality. Sprawling in nature at over 900 pages, any attempt to provide a precis of such a work would be a fool’s errand. So, given the acknowledged roughness of the text and, given also that the work formed the materials written in preparation for the more polished outcome of Capital, what is the value of reading this work? Why not just proceed directly to the finished product? In this short blog post I will provide a number of reasons why I think Grundrisse makes for compelling reading and should be read as part of a broader understanding of Marx’s work.
A 2011 paper exploring the mental health of trans people is commonly misused by anti-trans individuals and organizations to make points the paper doesn’t support.
Cross-sex hormones! Do they make trans people unbeatable, elite athletes, or boneless jellyfish squishing around on the ground? Graham Linehan just can’t decide.
A memo distributed internally at the Texas Department of Public safety now disallows Texans from using court orders or amended birth certificates to have the gender marker on their license changed. The DPS says the Attorney General’s office is to blame, and what’s more, Attorney General Ken Paxton seems dead set on creating a list of trans Texans again… again. Again.
As trans people increasingly become tools for various politicos, it’s important that we uplift the voices of the young trans people most affected by draconian anti-trans legislation.
A Twitter account dedicated to sharing the unflattering stories of people who claim to have worked for PinkNews released alleged audio recordings of CEO Benjamin Cohen that are, to say the least, troubling!
Chaya Raichik, or LibsofTikTok, is spotlighting the tragic loss of a trans man, Griffin Sivret, to demonize the entire community. She shouldn’t set the tone for this conversation. Let’s hear what Griffin had to say.
Earlier this year PolitiFact debunked a rumor about a California town supposedly providing trans residents with UBI. Today I’m asking you: Why shouldn’t they?
Subjected to weeks of public ridicule and internet harassment instigated by transphobic celebrities, Imane Khelif’s lawyer has announced that they’ve filed suit in France against “unknown parties.”
Writing for The Atlantic, James Kirchick seems to think the struggle for queer liberation is pretty much over in the US. The more you read, the clearer it becomes that James just doesn’t think the trans community is worth fighting for.
