4 Sep 2024
Will Russia violate the Antarctic Treaty?
For Moscow, science has always come second to ideology.
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22 Aug 2024
Southeast Asia’s great haze: Laggards and leaders
Indonesia is the region’s biggest producer of haze, so why was it the last to ratify ASEAN’s pollution prevention agreement? -
20 Aug 2024
Australia–ASEAN maritime cooperation: A focus on the whole risks losing sight of the parts
Tailored programs accounting for individual country needs will have greater influence. -
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. -
9 Aug 2024
Without money, the global biodiversity target is just an empty promise
Beyond social responsibility, funding conservation in developing nations is critical to the global economy. -
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. -
19 Jul 2024
The uncertain future for Southeast Asia’s great sea nomads
The seafaring tribes that crisscross the region’s waters are vital to ocean conservation but climate change is taking a toll. -
18 Jun 2024
The carbon sinks of Southeast Asia are in trouble
Global demand for palm oil and paper is threatening a fragile peatland ecosystem. International cooperation is needed now. -
4 Jun 2024
The fight for freshwater in the Maldives
Climate change and population increases have made water scarcity a geopolitical issue. -
16 May 2024
Beyond borders, beyond loss: How regional cooperation can safeguard Asia’s biodiversity
The threats to migratory species is urgent and can only be tackled together. -
28 Mar 2024
Replenishing the Asian Development Bank in the Pacific
A strong replenishment of the bank’s grant financing arm would serve the Pacific well. -
15 Mar 2024
Shipping and the great shrinking waterways
With droughts a more regular feature due to climate change, the globe needs a big rethink on supply chains. -
5 Mar 2024
From confrontation to collaboration: Working together on critical minerals supply chains
A global energy transition will rely not on decoupling but uniting for a diversified and sustainable future. -
5 Mar 2024
A role for nuclear in Australia’s climate response?
In the facts-lite political debate, the opportunities and comparative advantages of solar are being sidelined. -
19 Feb 2024
Kicking up a stink: Europe’s farmers, like those in Australia, are counting costs
International turmoil is having mixed political consequences both near and far. -
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. -
21 Dec 2023
A jurisdiction over the high seas
Australia will be a key player in the new agreement governing the globe’s largest natural habitat. -
20 Dec 2023
The great offshore decommissioning
More than 70 per cent of the world’s oil and gas production comes via ageing infrastructure rapidly approaching an economic limit. -
30 Nov 2023
Inside the tangled negotiations for a global plastic treaty
Countries want to end plastic pollution by 2040 but haven’t yet found agreement on a path to the goal. -
24 Nov 2023
Driving the energy transition within ASEAN
Transportation is the life-blood of the regional economy but also a big contributor to environmental costs. -
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. -
9 Nov 2023
Private finance cannot lead the global response to climate change
Misplaced faith in private sector solutions delays the redistribution of trillions from developed countries and multilateral institutions. -
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. -
30 Oct 2023
The future isn’t what it used to be
Will a revolution be the way the world’s young people right the wrongs of the modern era? -
27 Oct 2023
Climate negotiations in a fossil fuel state: What to expect from COP28
Even with outcomes uncertain, there are three big topics likely to dominate the upcoming talks in Dubai. -
20 Oct 2023
Can UNESCO save the Great Barrier Reef?
Climate change is a problem that confounds the original World Heritage model. -
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? -
16 Oct 2023
Global South activists seek a human rights framework for the climate crisis
A groundswell movement was evident as leaders gathered at the UN last month to make sure the people most affected are heard. -
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? -
22 Sep 2023
Libya’s unlearnable lessons
Many of the world’s current crises didn’t need to happen. Why the least responsible are still paying the price. -
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. -
13 Sep 2023
The crucial role for the Green Climate Fund – and why Australia should contribute
It’s vital to international climate solidarity and Australia rejoining is key to unlocking more global funding for the Pacific. -
29 Aug 2023
Climate change: Counting the costs and opportunities
Australia needs to think beyond the price of transition and move quickly to become a renewable energy superpower. -
28 Aug 2023
Weeks of living dangerously in Jakarta, all over again
Air pollution is crippling Indonesia’s capital just as the country prepares to host regional leaders. -
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. -
24 Jul 2023
Understanding “loss and damage” from climate change across the Indo-Pacific
A concept that will become ever more familiar – in the courts, too – with more action needed to avoid irreversible consequences of climate change. -
11 Jul 2023
Existential risk is a whole-of-society challenge
From climate change and pandemics to nuclear war and extinction by AI, collective action will be imperative. -
30 Jun 2023
The looming fate of Fukushima’s contaminated water
Environmental concerns in the Pacific also come with political risks for Japan’s prime minister. -
9 May 2023
Hydro-hegemon? Complexities of shared rivers between China and India
Alarm about China building dams upstream of Brahmaputra River must be tempered by India’s own record on water-sharing. -
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. -
13 Dec 2022
2022: A global turning point
Looking at trends and contours that have coalesced this year to make international politics more contested and unpredictable. -
22 Nov 2022
Europe must fully embrace nuclear energy
With Russia’s stranglehold on the region’s energy, it is time to add a second shade of green. -
18 Nov 2022
Strengthening disaster resilience in the Pacific
The aftermath of Tonga’s massive volcanic eruption holds valuable lessons as climate change risks also grow. -
14 Oct 2022
Can China build a “community” for shared oceans?
Amiable talk about safeguarding partners and protecting marine environment hasn’t allayed suspicions. -
29 Sep 2022
Water scarcity challenges China’s development model
With its industry and agriculture reliant on diminishing H2O, a crisis looms for the world’s most populous country. -
27 Jul 2022
The Quad needs a futures focus
A better – and public – understanding is needed of the cascading effects of regional challenges. -
28 Jun 2022
A minute to midnight: reversing environmental tipping points
Planetary boundaries and the role they play in global security are not as remote as they sound. And it’s time to listen. -
27 Jun 2022
Indonesia-Australia climate change cooperation begins with the ocean
Mangroves, reefs and fish stocks – the building blocks of stronger approach by both countries to address global warming. -
16 May 2022
Diplomacy is indispensable to manage the Mekong
The goal of a healthy river won’t be helped by misreading the shared mission of the Mekong River Commission.