Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com

26 days ago

Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’

Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’

Follow the day’s news live * Australia must ‘step up to prevent catastrophic and preventable loss of life’ amid Trump cuts, former CDC boss says * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast And welcome to another Sunday Guardian live blog. Climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen has declared Australia a “solar nation” after 100,000 households and small businesses have signed up to a government program to help install home batteries. The government says there has been a 50% jump in home battery capacity within four months of the program starting. Continue reading...

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social

1 month ago

Flooding has already wiped $42B from the value of 🇦🇺 homes

Climate change isn’t a future cost. It’s here, harming our economy and our safety

We can’t keep ✅ fossil fuel projects at expense of communities & property values, and need to get serious about adaptation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Floods have devalued Australian homes by $42bn. Experts say that’s the cost of ‘a changing climate’

Of the 2m flood-prone houses across the country, at least 70% have had values reduced, a new report by Climate Council and PropTrack has found

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social

1 month ago

team of postdocs in the lab meeting proposing the 15th joint paper when I ask them when we will find time to write it

Crikey @crikey.com.au

1 month ago

Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.

Scott Morrison declares role with Saudi oil company

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social

1 month ago

Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research.

Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊

MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social

3 months ago

(...) Alexandru Cernat (University of Manchester, @manchester.ac.uk ‪‬) Héctor Cebolla ( @hcebolla.bsky.social ) Federica Genovese (‪ @fgenovese.bsky.social ) Ben Jann (Universität Bern, @unibe.ch ‬) Catherine E. de Vries ( ‪@catherinedevries.bsky.social ) (...) 3/7

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social

2 months ago

Looking forward to hopping on a train later today and heading to Paris to present our "how Brexit harmed the environment" paper (cc @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social) tomorrow 🇫🇷

Thanks @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social for the invite!

Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social

2 months ago

New from @the-breakdown.bsky.social ISSUE 2

Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community

Photographed: Daniel Totabo

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social

2 months ago

Psyched for @acalacino.bsky.social and @hayleypring.bsky.social to present our media paper at PECE/APSA!

Come for the giant dataframe of local news, geolocated monthly climate events and coal mines

Stay for the wealth of stories from recent 🇧🇷🇮🇩 fieldwork

Enrage about asset-based climate politics

Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social

2 months ago

3/5 we are really grateful to the Leverhulme Trust and the @cssn.org for funding our work on this. We have been able to do fieldwork where we spoke with coal miners, oil sector workers, and journalists in Brazil and Indonesia.

Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social

2 months ago

On my way to Vancouver for APSA and the PECE pre-conference. At PECE, I'll be sharing a look at a project with @fgenovese.bsky.social, @hayleypring.bsky.social & Mats Ahrenshop in which we try to understand when national and local media report on climate change 👇 1/5