Climate change a security threat in Australia, says intelligence expert
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Australia should address climate change as a national security threat at the Earth Day climate summit hosted by US President Joe Biden, according to a former director of the Australian Department of Defence.
Cheryl Durrant, a specialist in intelligence analysis and scenario planning during her military career who is now an academic and councillor with the Climate Council, said Mr Biden had raised the significance of climate change as a security threat in his invitation to world leaders.
Green hydrogen is billed as the new climate friendly fuel in town but will it work?
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You may have started hearing the phrase green hydrogen and wondered if this clean fuel of the future will live up to the hype.
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Green hydrogen could be a gamechanger if it can be used to decarbonise industries like steel making and shipping
The concept of green hydrogen has been around for decades, but making it isn t cheap
Fortescue said a green steel industry could create tens of thousands of jobs
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The federal government has been accused of prioritising vested interests after a former energy boss and prominent champion of gas was put in charge of Australia s Climate Change Authority (CCA).
The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) fears the agency is being stacked with fossil fuel lobbyists and has described Grant King s appointment to the statutory agency as a sorry state of affairs .
Mr King, who has held leadership roles at Origin Energy, the Business Council of Australia and the Oil Company of Australia, was announced the new chair of the CCA on Friday.
He is currently the chair of HSBC Australia and is on the board of CWP renewables, a wind and solar farm company.
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