16 October 2025, The Conversation: A crucial store of carbon in Australia’s tropical forests has switched from carbon sink to carbon source. One approach to help fight climate change is to protect natural forests, as they absorb some atmospheric carbon released … Continue reading →
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30 May 2024, The Conversation: Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas.In announcing Australia’s support for fossil gas all the way to 2050 and beyond, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pushed … Continue reading →
16 November 2023, The Conversation: We’re burning too much fossil fuel to fix by planting trees – making ‘net zero’ emissions impossible with offsets. The idea that we can mitigate current carbon emissions by “offsetting” them with carbon reduction initiatives elsewhere … Continue reading →
28 August 2023, The Conversation: Indigenous rangers are burning the desert the right way – to stop the wrong kind of intense fires from raging. Even though it’s still winter, the fire season has already started in Australia’s arid centre. About … Continue reading →