30 Aug 2024
The right road to renewable biofuel in Indonesia
Taking directions from big producers in the United States and Brazil.
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9 Aug 2024
Is Australia too late to claim its green economy share?
Playing a role in Southeast Asia’s green energy transition is an opportunity Australia must not let pass. -
8 Aug 2024
Mission possible: Making the most of Australia-India cooperation on critical minerals
The Indian government has set itself a new ambition to meet green transition needs – and Australia is a perfect partner. -
31 Jul 2024
Charging up: Europe’s bid for renewable energy independence
A new deal with Serbia for one of the world's largest lithium mines is about breaking China’s stranglehold on the market. -
29 Jul 2024
Critical minerals, critical decisions
A new UN panel can help ensure the social and environmental risks of the energy transition are better understood. -
24 Jun 2024
Gas and the difficult path to net zero
As a major supplier of global energy, Australia’s external challenges will be formidable. -
11 Jun 2024
Rare earths vs rarer resources: Global ripples from Australia’s divestment decision
Climate change is a challenge China and the United States are fighting together, making technological cooperation key. -
21 May 2024
Whether EVs or solar panels, protectionism has the same distorting effect
Biden is playing election politics with tariffs on China’s electric cars, while Albanese’s solar subsidy plans might end up costing Australia. -
15 May 2024
Australia’s new gas strategy makes for flawed foreign policy
Simultaneously advancing energy security in Asia and climate security in the Pacific is both possible and desirable. -
8 May 2024
The cable shortage: Plugging in offshore wind farms
Australia must consider the bigger risks as well as the opportunity of a shift to renewable energy. -
26 Apr 2024
Australia’s comparative advantage in climate transition
Already world leaders in rooftop solar, Australians should take the opportunity with supporting rollouts in Southeast Asia. -
16 Apr 2024
Great powers vs domestic politics: The clean energy trade-off
The battle to corner the market on energy transition minerals has much at stake. -
16 Apr 2024
India’s takeover of the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm will help build energy interdependence with Sri Lanka
Old infrastructure could get a new lease on life. -
28 Feb 2024
ASEAN-Australia cooperation in the clean energy transition
Big ambition is the order of the day. -
12 Feb 2024
Australia’s nuclear energy debate doesn’t have to be partisan
The technical merits of nuclear power as part of a mix of energy sources should be the foundation for debate here – as it is elsewhere globally. -
9 Feb 2024
Middle East turmoil and a US pause offer Australia LNG opportunities
On the way to net-zero, there is a chance to help bolster Asia’s regional energy security. -
25 Jan 2024
Can China use offshore wind to break its reliance on foreign LNG and coal?
And could that make Beijing more open to risk-taking, including vis-à-vis Taiwan? -
2 Jan 2024
Vietnam’s challenge to wean off coal
Fossil fuels have driven rapid growth but the country has pledged – with global help – to be carbon neutral by 2050. -
28 Dec 2023
Lithium, lightest metal on earth, carries heavy geopolitical weight
Instead of a source of great tech power competition, lithium should be key to a collective fight against climate change. -
13 Dec 2023
Beijing digs in for the Central Asia-China gas pipeline
Construction challenges aside, a geopolitical interest is obvious. -
6 Dec 2023
The geopolitics of Argentina’s lithium trade
Will the new government redefine its trade ties with China – and at what cost? -
29 Nov 2023
Southeast Asia's minerals: Opportunity knocks
Australia should make better use of its regional leadership in minerals technology, skills and governance. -
28 Nov 2023
The regional realignment on display at COP28
Middle East nations that built riches on fossil fuels are now presenting as friends for the Global South in an energy transition. -
16 Nov 2023
Albanese is right to reject fossil fuel phaseouts
The politics of climate change has to be paired with grasping the economics, too. -
9 Nov 2023
Economic diplomacy: Labor’s green security state rises
From Chinese wind turbines to temporary foreign workers, Australia faces difficult intersections between domestic and foreign policy. -
8 Nov 2023
Ukraine’s energy fightback
Expert crews are risking their lives to keep the lights on amid Russia’s invasion – with help from far away, too. -
7 Nov 2023
Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership is a glass half full
Momentum is building, but global pledges for no new fossil fuel expansion come with a lot of caveats. -
19 Oct 2023
China’s car exports pose a key question to policymakers: Compete or protect?
How they respond will have implications for consumers and the climate. -
19 Oct 2023
Mongolia’s critical role in the global energy transition
Many suitors are eager to assist the country in realising its natural resources potential. But are all the deals win-win? -
12 Oct 2023
How can Australia get its commitments to reduce carbon emissions back on track?
Economic diplomacy: Putting energy into the post-Voice political vacuum by smoothing Australia’s relations is a start. -
11 Oct 2023
Indonesia’s “golden visa” pitch to big-wheel investors
The President has a downstreaming vision and needs long-term capital to make it reality. -
6 Oct 2023
Power of Siberia 2: Moving beyond a pipe dream?
Australia would be wise to diversify its gas exports now before Russia’s pivot to Asia takes hold. -
3 Oct 2023
Five reasons why the government mustn’t cool its heels on an “Australian IRA”
What cause could be more important than the economic, energy, and environmental security of the nation and the future of the planet? -
15 Sep 2023
Beijing’s plan for Taiwan challenges its offshore wind push
Fujian’s coast hasn’t kept up with wind power in other provinces – and military strategy seems to be blowing the other direction. -
15 Sep 2023
Critical minerals, critical choices: Australia’s role in shaping the green revolution
“Resource nationalism” only poses a threat to mining policy if the government pretends it’s not happening. -
6 Sep 2023
The sticky case of Indonesia, a seized Iranian oil tanker, and legal jurisdiction
An intercepted ship-to-ship transfer raises a series of interlinked questions about sanctions, pollution and the reach of international law. -
18 Aug 2023
Stepping on the gas: Boosting Australia’s climate diplomacy in the region
Opponents of carbon capture plans need to look past ideology and think about the development costs to friends and neighbours. -
15 Aug 2023
Pipe dreams: Turning an interconnected ASEAN gas market into a reality
An old idea for a regional network might hold the answer for energy demand into the future. -
21 Jul 2023
Indonesia’s new capital of power can’t afford the tangled wires of Jakarta
Look up and live takes on a new urgency in the digital age. -
20 Jul 2023
Economic diplomacy: Japan’s message in a gas bottle
More than hot air, economics is the essence of national security in Australia’s resource deficient closest Asian partner. -
14 Jul 2023
Australia and Southeast Asia: Driving EV collaboration across borders
A regional value chain for battery production – with Australia to process critical minerals and export these products – is too good a chance to ignore. -
7 Jul 2023
Timor-Leste: Breaking free from temptation of easy money
The Gusmão-led government has a raft of development challenges and cannot afford to rely solely on oil and gas. -
6 Jul 2023
Economic diplomacy: Power shifts with Jakarta
Australia and Indonesia may be riding together in a new electric diplomatic limo, but they still have separate roadmaps. -
4 Jul 2023
From hydrocarbons to hydrogen? Gulf states seek the good oil in green transition
The region that has long dominated global energy politics is well placed to shape a shift to new supplies. -
16 Jun 2023
Finding opportunity in Australia’s liquid fuel security challenge
Sustainable Aviation Fuel – whether for Defence or commercial aviation requirements – can help fix a national problem. -
10 May 2023
Pakistan’s gamble with Russian oil
Any deal will be hindered by US sanctions, refining challenges, transportation costs, and payment concerns. -
2 May 2023
Managing Japan-Australia energy tensions in a time of transition
Australia can’t afford to support Japan’s carbon emissions anymore than its own. -
1 May 2023
Finding opportunity in Asia’s net-zero transition
Australia will miss out if it doesn’t prepare for lower coal and gas exports. -
27 Apr 2023
Economic diplomacy: Friends, rivals and diplomatic gaslighting
Money still talks in a new world of tighter security alliances when Japan and China can align against Australia on energy. -
20 Mar 2023
Indonesia’s nickel superhighway
There are vast opportunities to build new industries when you’re sitting on the globe’s largest reserve of rare earth.