EPISODE · Aug 10, 2022 · 3 MIN
Simone Fox Koob tells us it's all 'smoke and mirrors'
from Climate Conversations · host Robert McLean
Climate activist shareholder groups have slammed Commonwealth Bank’s new fossil fuel targets for failing to rule out lending for oil and gas extraction projects, according to a story from today's Melbourne Age by Simone Fox Koob. Her story - "‘Smoke and mirrors’: CBA climate lending targets under fire" - helps us understand how the climate crisis will never be resolved using existing economic tools. A second story from The Age by Laura Chung and Nick O'Malley is headed: "As big as two Harbour bridges: The giant wind farms you’ll see from the coast". Other climate stories are: "Controversy brews as Australia eyes entering the global carbon trade"; "The US has finally passed a huge climate bill. Australia needs to keep up"; "Australian electricity companies not reducing emissions in line with Paris agreement goals, study finds"; "Experts say the net zero concept is often used to delay taking action against emissions"; "NT government abandons plan to include mining industry in new environmental laws"; "French tourist regions under renewed threat from bushfires". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
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Climate activist shareholder groups have slammed Commonwealth Bank’s new fossil fuel targets for failing to rule out lending for oil and gas extraction projects, according to a story from today's Melbourne Age by Simone Fox Koob. Her story - "‘Smoke and mirrors’: CBA climate lending targets under fire" - helps us understand how the climate crisis will never be resolved using existing economic tools. A second story from The Age by Laura Chung and Nick O'Malley is headed: "As big as two Harbour bridges: The giant wind farms you’ll see from the coast". Other climate stories are: "Controversy brews as Australia eyes entering the global carbon trade"; "The US has finally passed a huge climate bill. Australia needs to keep up"; "Australian electricity companies not reducing emissions in line with Paris agreement goals, study finds"; "Experts say the net zero concept is often used to delay taking action against emissions"; "NT government abandons plan to include mining industry in new environmental laws"; "French tourist regions under renewed threat from bushfires". Enjoy "Music for a Warming World".
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Simone Fox Koob tells us it's all 'smoke and mirrors'
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