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Declining export revenue from fossil fuels will result in slower growth and less of an increase in our material standards – unless we replace the dwindling exports with something else.

The Coalition is no friend of the environment. Neither are carbon credits

Typically, one credit compensates for one tonne of carbon, but the mechanism isn’t helping bring emissions down.

  • Millie Muroi

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An LGI gas drill and pipes ready to be laid at Eastern Creek Landfill.

Rubbish tip or gasfield? How the fumes from landfill are powering homes

Rotting landfill produces methane, a greenhouse gas at least 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. If you mine the gas and turn it into electricity, you can reduce emissions and power homes.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
This car park has been future proofed for the days when public transport is improved, and the multistorey deck can be adapted for other uses.

It is Sydney’s prettiest car park, and it has a hidden secret

This car park has been future-proofed for the days when public transport is improved, and the multi-storey deck can be adapted for other uses.

  • Julie Power
Whatever the mechanism to cut Australia’s carbon emissions, it’s not a carbon tax.

The one big reform no one discussed at Labor’s roundtable

Virtually every economist attending last month’s economic pow-wow in Canberra agrees, so why is the federal government so afraid of locking in this measure?

  • Ross Gittins
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Nine new ways to make us richer, safer and happier

Anthony Albanese’s economic roundtable has been inundated with ideas to lift Australians’ living standards. Here are nine that would actually work.

  • Shane Wright
EnergyAustralia’s Yallourn Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.

EnergyAustralia apologises over offsets after greenwashing lawsuit

EnergyAustralia apologises and ditches offsets after a greenwashing lawsuit exposed its Go Neutral claims as misleading to consumers.

  • Bianca Hall
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A biochar machine, seen here at Earth Systems in Port Melbourne.

Hulking machine built to fight climate change is sitting silent

In a warehouse near the border of Victoria and NSW is a decommissioned machine that sums up how hard it is to find solutions to the climate crisis.

  • Liam Mannix
Dr Shanta Barley, Chief Climate Scientist, Fortescue, at the Climate Integrity Summit.

Australians are being misled by ‘dodgy’ offsets, say Fortescue

The iron ore giant says the public is being misled into believing that low-quality carbon offset schemes will lead to net zero, despite evidence that only reducing fossil fuels will work.

  • Michael Bachelard
Steve Blore was the pin-up boy for Climate Friendly. Until the rules changed.

‘Parasites’, ‘cowboys’: The carbon companies dividing rural Australia

Carbon developers descended on rural Australia 10 years ago promising big money and an easy fix to complex problems. Today, farmers are crying foul.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Michael Bachelard
Using mulga forests to save carbon is under fresh scrutiny.

Dust and dead trees: The reality of Australia’s biggest carbon saver

The nation has made a multibillion-dollar bet that carbon locked in desert scrub will offset emissions elsewhere, but doubters - from scientists in the city to the farmers on the land - are growing.

  • Michael Bachelard, Charlotte Grieve and The Visual Stories Team

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