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Michael Mazengarb@michaelmazengarb.bsky.social |
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Renewable Energy and Climate Change policy | Climate law. Under-appreciated sports hottakes.
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Michael Mazengarb
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Australia exported more than 43 tonnes of CO₂ emissions for each and every Australian in 2013.
To put that into perspective, for every tonne of emissions produced at home, Australia exported 3 tonnes of emissions in the form of coal and gas.
www.tempestsandterawatts.com/p/australia-...
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Michael Mazengarb
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Australian Oil and Gas giant Santos being acquired by Saudi Aramco and/or ADNOC would be quite the development, and entirely changing their social licence in Australia.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Michael Mazengarb
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I've started The Donkey Vote as an outlet my thoughts and observations over the next year in NYC.
Please consider subscribing: thedonkeyvote.com
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Michael Mazengarb
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Some news - my family will soon relocate to NYC for a little under a year.
I’m excited and nervous about observing what could be a historically significant period for the United States.
Naturally, I'm going to write about it. Here is the first post:
www.thedonkeyvote.com/p/that-simme...
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Michael Mazengarb
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Most companies currently doing scenario analysis are using 3-4 degrees of warming for physical risks. Hard to see how 2.5 degrees provides any meaningful insights.
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Michael Mazengarb
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The explanatory memoranda for Government amendments to proposed mandatory climate reporting legislation say scenario modelling of a 2.5 degree warming outcome would satisfy requirements to assess physical risk. But that would be a lower warming outcome than current BAU trajectories.
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Michael Mazengarb
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Both Labor and the Coalition say they will not legislate to establish a climate change duty of care, teaming up in an inquiry to oppose David Pocock’s proposed legislation that would compel government decisionmakers to protect young people from climate change harms.
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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Michael Mazengarb
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Peter Dutton's plan for nuclear power in Australia will be too late, too expensive, too risky, and is just straight-up unnecessary. Here's 11 reasons why.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Michael Mazengarb
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Quite a blow for those pushing offsets and carbon crediting more generally. - but probably better for the planet
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Michael Mazengarb
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Telstra announces it’s abandoning carbon offsetting, and the Climate Active program, in favour of investments in direct emissions reductions.
www.telstra.com.au/exchange/upd...
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Michael Mazengarb
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No plastic!
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Michael Mazengarb
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I’m pretty sure the Venn diagram of climate nerds and board game nerds is a circle.
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Michael Mazengarb
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"It takes two sides to declare peace, and unfortunately for Australia, one of the key antagonist of the ‘climate wars’ is imbued with a group of climate change deniers and conspiracy theorists for whom Total War is their only mode."
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Michael Mazengarb
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Narrator: The Climate Wars were not, in fact, “over” but rather ratcheting to a new level of unhinged calamity
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...
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Michael Mazengarb
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Not enjoying the maths of producing 53 GtCO2e annually, with a 200 GtCO2e for a 50-50 chance of keeping warming below 1.5 degrees.
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Michael Mazengarb
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First thought was that it sounds like something GISERA would produce.
Is it figure 9/page 30 here?
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Michael Mazengarb
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Proposed legislation that would establish a mandatory climate reporting regime has passed the House of Reps unamended.
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Michael Mazengarb
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Victorian Government: Hey look, we’re purchasing renewables to power government schools and hospitals. Also Victorian Government, mumbling: We also approved a new gas project
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Ketan Joshi
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HEY - I wrote a post, for you!
Aus has been revising land use emissions data for a while now, always in a way that favours fossil industry. But last week they published the most egregious update ever.
It had the same effect as 5 years of *actual* new wind and solar:
ketanjoshi.co/2024/06/02/a...
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Michael Mazengarb
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It has allowed the government to say emissions are now 29% below 2005 levels, when just three months ago it claimed they were 25.4% below 2005 levels. No meaningful change in actual emissions, we’re just accounting it differently.
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Michael Mazengarb
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The explanation from DCCEEW is they changed the methodology 🤷
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Michael Mazengarb
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The explanation from DCCEEW is they changed the methodology 🤷
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Michael Mazengarb
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Cannot understate the scale of this change. Data published in February had annual LULUCF removals at 63.9 million tonnes. Today’s data says removals are 88.4 million tonnes. A 38% shift in the data in just 3 months.
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Michael Mazengarb
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Wild revisions to Australia’s LULUCF emissions masking the lack of systemic progress towards emissions reduction across the rest of the economy
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Guardian Australia
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MasterChef Australia fans being deceived by ‘renewable gas’ campaign, climate advocates tell watchdog
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Tim Baxter
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While in opposition, the ALP loudly (and correctly!) criticised the Morrison-led LNP's $31m ad spend to spruik the party's climate policy credentials ahead of the most recent election. In government, they have allocated $45m of government money to their on partisan pre-election climate campaign:
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Michael Mazengarb
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What Dutton said, for reference. Which does not relate to anything in the recent budget, and only makes sense in the context of proposed mandatory climate reporting legislation that’s currently before Parliament.
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Michael Mazengarb
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This very much sounds like Peter Dutton promising to carve out Scope 3 emissions reporting from mandatory climate disclosures
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Michael Mazengarb
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When you love the mining industry, but hate the clean energy sector industry more
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Michael Mazengarb
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Snowy Hydro getting a $7.1 billion funding injection, essentially to cover the increased costs of the Snowy 2.0 project. Not a great sign of confidence in Snowy that it couldn’t source the construction loan from private lenders. Good luck getting that refinanced in two years.
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Michael Mazengarb
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The summary of ‘net zero’ expenditure in the 2024-25 federal budget
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Michael Mazengarb
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BOM says it’s on La Niña watch for later in 2024.
Because it not already wet enough on the Australian east coast
www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso...
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Michael Mazengarb
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Would you support or oppose new gas projects if it meant that we all got a nice little treat?
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Michael Mazengarb
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Actually do relate to this to some extent. I had just finished reading The Parable of the Sower in early 2020 and it probably didn’t help me cope with the rest of that year. I definitely have a point of saturation about bleak futures.
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Michael Mazengarb
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Or, maybe I’m just weird.
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Michael Mazengarb
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Reading about climate science *all the time* gets strangely tiring. The constant flow of information about how things are gradually actually going to shit. There’s something about the skipping ahead theoretically (even if, like Fallout or The Last of Us - it’s not necessarily a realistic future).
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Michael Mazengarb
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Do any other climate peeps just relish dystopian/post apocalyptic literature/movies/TV shows. I get some weird comfort/escape through them. I’m hope sick and binge watching Fallout and just love it. I think I just enjoy the exercise of thinking through life after things going to shit.
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Michael Mazengarb
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Labor’s Future Gas Strategy published today remarkably includes this chart, and yet Minister King says “It is clear we will need continued exploration, investment and development in the [gas] sector to support the path to net zero for Australia and for our export partners”
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Michael Mazengarb
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The Greens and David Pocock included some additional comments, with some quite workable amendments. So looks likely the legislation will pass with some minor changes made as it negotiates the Senate.
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Michael Mazengarb
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The Senate Economics Committee has released its inquiry report into the proposed mandatory climate reporting regime.
Committee recommends the legislation passes; the Coalition issued a dissenting report citing the contracted inquiry timeline.
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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Michael Mazengarb
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2035 is very late, but this includes Australia’s largest fossil fuel customer in Japan.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Royce Kurmelovs
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A federal court judge has allowed oil company Santos to subpoena documents held by environment and climate activist groups *not* directly involved in suing to stop the construction of a pipeline off the Tiwi Islands to help inform whether the oil company will also chase these groups for costs.
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cameron wilson
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Michael Mazengarb
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Yeah, so it was both - a climate transition plan and their 2023 update report that were being voted on together. That said, it was definitely the transition plan that attracted the most scrutiny.
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Michael Mazengarb
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Formally, it doesn't mean much, as the AGM motion was an 'advisory resolution', so was not legally binding in any way. But it's a significant repudiation of the company and its directors. The directors put forward the Climate Plan, asked for an endorsement from shareholders, and they said NO.
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Michael Mazengarb
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58% of Woodside shareholders have voted to against the company’s Climate Transition Action Plan (Item 6). As far as I’m aware, Woodside has become the first major company to have a majority of shareholders vote against a climate report.
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Michael Mazengarb
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Perfect, no notes.
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Michael Mazengarb
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The only way to save coral reefs is to end fossil fuels.
Ping certain cabinet ministers...
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Michael Mazengarb
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There's a lesson being learnt here; that governments aren't going to get away with merely setting more ambitious climate targets without effective plans for meeting them.
The answer, of course, is to implement the effective plan, not to abandon the target.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Michael Mazengarb
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oh no
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