How the Australia deal gets done
With only 2 days remaining in the UN climate talks, Environmental Ministers are looking to begin a rapid-fire deal-brokering period that could include an amended “reserve” pool to allow Australia to...
View ArticleSpain, Germany, Costa Rica and New Zealand unite against weak Carbon Markets
After 2 weeks of 24 hour negotiations in Madrid, a group of now 27 countries, have come out publicly against efforts of Brazil and Australia to weaken carbon markets. In what was one of the most...
View ArticleBlame, Bushfires, Beef and Bitter hope begins: 1 week since COP25
After less than a week since the UN climate talks in Madrid, negotiators have arrived back to their capitals seeking to balance disappointment, hope and blame as they begin to tell their side of what...
View ArticleI’ve worked on climate change for 10 years. The Australian bushfires burnt...
“The farm is on fire” my mum said, as a red blush of fear rushed into her skin. “Fiona is trapped inside the house. She can’t get out”. Suddenly a story I had seen and heard on the news for months on...
View ArticleCOVID-19 – How we plan to respond
When 2020 began, we had big hopes in Climate Tracker to host more workshops and in-person training than we had ever done before. As the year began, you might have seen that we have already put out...
View ArticleWhy we must support #BlackLivesMatter as environmental journalists
The last few days have been devastating for many of us at Climate Tracker. As a network and a team, we have family and friends who are being brutalised as we speak, and we are in a collective...
View ArticleHow we selected our Sustainable Energy Fellows
Selecting great journalists is always a long and imperfect process. At Climate Tracker, we have run more than 100 online competitions, and while we have developed a series of extensive selection...
View ArticleCarbon emissions may cost $2.5 Trillion each year
The analysis was published as the Biden administration is about to revise their own dollar value of the future cost of damages caused by each tonne of carbon emitted now. The Social Cost of Carbon is...
View Article2030 just became the new 2050
Biden’s Leaders’ Summit on Climate will shift the global focus from 2050, to 2030 On the eve of Joe Biden’s Leaders’ Summit on Climate, it’s clear that the benchmarks of climate action are about to...
View ArticleOpinion: The G7 ends without a planned coal phase-out or any sense of climate...
In the lead up to the weekend’s G7 meeting, many climate watchers were excited that for the first time, “climate justice is on the agenda”. Unfortunately, it didn’t seem to make it much further than...
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