Living Within Limits
'Climateworks Centre report investigates the environmental limits Australia must work within so it can continue to prosper for generations to come.' (Climateworks Centre, Monash University, Melbourne) >
Tents To Castles: Energy Efficient Homes
Building Energy Efficient, Cost-saving Aussie Homes. 'Low energy efficiency standards have left too many Australians living in poorly-made homes equated to “glorified tents”, which are stifling during summer and freezing in winter.' (Climate Council, Sydney) >
Australian roadmap to serve up future protein
'Can we feed the world’s growing population sustainably and meet changing tastes and dietary preferences? To do this, we’ll need to do things differently in our food production systems.' (CSIRO ECOS) >
EFFECTS of WARMER TASMANIAN WATERS
Bleaching in sponges on temperate mesophotic reefs observed following marine heatwave events. Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. (Climate Change Ecology Journal) >
Regional Decarbonization
Contributing to regional decarbonization: Australia’s potential to supply zero-carbon commodities to the Asia-Pacific. 'The paper investigates three pathways by which Australia could instead export zero-carbon energy and products: direct exports of renewable electricity via sub-sea cables, exports of zero-carbon fuels such as green hydrogen, and the export of “green” metals processed from Australian ores using renewable energy.' (Analysis & Policy Observatory, Melbourne) >
Sodium-ion Batteries Data
Sodium-ion Batteries: Inexpensive and Sustainable Energy Storage. (Faraday Insight - The Faraday Institution) >
CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES PRIORITY for ECONOMISTS
Prioritising issues for the incoming Government. 'One issue matters more to top economists than any other this election.' (National Economics Panel, The Economic Society of Australia, Sydney) >
Motivating the 'moderate flank'
Motivating the 'moderate flank' in Society. ‘What happens when a radical flank gets somewhere and itself becomes a kind of new ‘centre of gravity’ within the space of activism, successfully shifting public opinion significantly in the direction of its goals? What happens next?’. 'The latent power of this group, described here as a potential ‘moderate flank’, is enormous.' (Rupert Reed essay) >
2022 Sea Level Rise
2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report. 'Updated projections available through 2150 for all U.S. coastal waters.' (National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration USA) >
Social Tipping Dynamics
Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050. 'Achieving a rapid global decarbonization to stabilize the climate critically depends on activating contagious and fast-spreading processes of social and technological change within the next few years.' Research Article. (National Academy of Science - PNAS) >