Climate change
COP28: Why a gender power divide threatens climate progress
What does gender have to do with global climate change negotiations?
Climate change is not an inherently gender discriminatory phenomenon – but its social impacts are. The…
Private finance cannot lead the global response to climate change
In response to the looming trillion-dollar global climate finance shortfall, a broad array of policymakers, international bureaucrats, environmentalists, and financial…
Commentary
The world energy outlook: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Originally published in Samoa Observer, 6 November 2023.
Commentary
Measuring the climate cost to Pacific development
Originally published in Samoa Observer, 4 November 2023.
Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership is a glass half full
Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) was signed with well-meaning intentions to raise climate ambition by accelerating the energy sector’s transition to…
Measuring the climate cost to Pacific development
Tropical cyclone Lola slammed into Vanuatu's northern islands last week, the third high intensity storm to hit the island nation in seven months. Lola was also the earliest…
Commentary
Australia should rejoin the world's largest climate fund
Originally published in The Canberra Times, 23 September 2023.
The future isn’t what it used to be
Who’d be a young person? The answer used to be an unambiguous cry of “me”. Nowadays, the response is a bit more half-hearted. Or it is for anyone paying attention, at least. In…
Climate negotiations in a fossil fuel state: What to expect from COP28
The time until the next climate change negotiations get underway in December seems deceptively far away, but in fact countries are already gearing up for the 28th Conference…
Can UNESCO save the Great Barrier Reef?
It’s a long way from the ancient Abu Simbel temples in Egypt to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – literally and figuratively. The former is a majestic collection of giant rock…