Ryan Cropp
@ryancropp.bsky.social
Energy and Climate Reporter at the Australian Financial Review — Author of Donald Horne (2023) — Get in touch: [email protected] Signal: ryancropp.91
“People who attend UN climate conferences are loathe to describe any of them as a failure.”
Michael Jacobs telling it straight here. There is now a powerful and organised global resistance to climate action. What is to be done?
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Michael Jacobs telling it straight here. There is now a powerful and organised global resistance to climate action. What is to be done?
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Not so good COP • Inside Story
The latest UN climate summit was buffeted by geopolitical headwinds
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November 23, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“People who attend UN climate conferences are loathe to describe any of them as a failure.”
Michael Jacobs telling it straight here. There is now a powerful and organised global resistance to climate action. What is to be done?
insidestory.org.au/not-so-good-...
Michael Jacobs telling it straight here. There is now a powerful and organised global resistance to climate action. What is to be done?
insidestory.org.au/not-so-good-...
Me, aged 10: I am entering into a voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to clean my room
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Me, aged 10: I am entering into a voluntary agreement to begin discussions on a roadmap to clean my room
The speed at which climate people have pivoted from “Australia must host COP” to “actually it’s a good that we’re not hosting” is truly something to behold
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The speed at which climate people have pivoted from “Australia must host COP” to “actually it’s a good that we’re not hosting” is truly something to behold
Select COP31 bid coverage by me and Phil Coorey over the last few months, in a thread:
Bowen in line to be COP President, May 6
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Bowen in line to be COP President, May 6
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Bowen in line for top global climate role
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is a contender for one of the world’s top climate roles.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Select COP31 bid coverage by me and Phil Coorey over the last few months, in a thread:
Bowen in line to be COP President, May 6
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Bowen in line to be COP President, May 6
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The Albanese government has delayed the full release of a report that recommends it impose a carbon levy on some imported commodities amid sensitivities over US-led trade and tariff negotiations and a global slowdown in climate policy ambition.
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Trump trade wars keep Labor’s carbon tariff on ice
The Albanese government has delayed the release of a report that recommends the creation of carbon tariffs on some imported products.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The Albanese government has delayed the full release of a report that recommends it impose a carbon levy on some imported commodities amid sensitivities over US-led trade and tariff negotiations and a global slowdown in climate policy ambition.
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The Albanese government has offered to cede hosting rights to next year’s UN climate summit as long as a world leaders event is held in the Pacific Islands.
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Albanese abandons Adelaide’s COP bid in compromise offer for UN summit
The Albanese government has offered to cede hosting rights to next year’s UN climate summit as long as a world leaders event is held in the Pacific Islands.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Albanese government has offered to cede hosting rights to next year’s UN climate summit as long as a world leaders event is held in the Pacific Islands.
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Despite their professed desire to bring down power bills, the Liberals new energy policy is unlikely to do what it says on the tin.
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Linguistic acrobatics can’t mask Liberal energy policy mess
Despite their professed desire to bring down energy bills, the Liberals new energy policy is unlikely to do what it says on the tin.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Despite their professed desire to bring down power bills, the Liberals new energy policy is unlikely to do what it says on the tin.
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The vibe shift on global climate action has hit the buzz around Brazil’s COP, but the true believers are still there doing work they say is as urgent as ever.
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This year’s global climate summit is different – but not in a good way
The vibe shift on global climate action has hit the buzz around Brazil’s COP, but the true believers are still there doing work they say is as urgent as ever.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The vibe shift on global climate action has hit the buzz around Brazil’s COP, but the true believers are still there doing work they say is as urgent as ever.
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Reviewed Sam Tanenhaus's William F. Buckley bio. insidestory.org.au/the-entertai...
The entertaining insurgent • Dominic Kelly
Conservative activist William F. Buckley cajoled America along the road to the Reagan revolution
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November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Reviewed Sam Tanenhaus's William F. Buckley bio. insidestory.org.au/the-entertai...
The billionaire’s pivot puts the focus on human health and adaptation. But giving up the emissions fight will just make the final bill far higher.
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Bill Gates is right: We must learn to live with climate change
The billionaire’s pivot puts the focus on human health and adaptation. But giving up the emissions fight will just make the final bill far higher.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The billionaire’s pivot puts the focus on human health and adaptation. But giving up the emissions fight will just make the final bill far higher.
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“The Australian Financial Review supports Australia reaching net zero by 2050 to help tackle global warming. We also back the sensible 62 to 70 per cent interim 2035 emissions reduction target announced by the Albanese government last month”
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Labor should seize the decarbonisation policy certainty challenge
Albanese’s government should focus on nailing down the policy settings needed to accelerate emission cuts and connect more clean generation and storage to the mains.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
“The Australian Financial Review supports Australia reaching net zero by 2050 to help tackle global warming. We also back the sensible 62 to 70 per cent interim 2035 emissions reduction target announced by the Albanese government last month”
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White smoke has emanated from the department offices and a new acronym has been announced to guide the transition electricity sector: ESEM!
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Radical plan proposed to reinvent the energy market
The government should guarantee the long-term revenue of new renewable energy projects to ensure the security of the grid, according to a major new report.
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August 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
White smoke has emanated from the department offices and a new acronym has been announced to guide the transition electricity sector: ESEM!
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Somewhat reminiscent of Heywood interconnector upgrade a decade ago that was supposed to be finished before the Northern brown coal fired power station closure
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July 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Somewhat reminiscent of Heywood interconnector upgrade a decade ago that was supposed to be finished before the Northern brown coal fired power station closure
(Story from @ryancropp.bsky.social here:
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(Story from @ryancropp.bsky.social here:
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Australia’s Foreign Affairs Department is operating without its top climate diplomat as the Albanese government struggles to lock in the international support required to secure its bid to host a major UN summit in Adelaide in 2026.
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Diplomatic void clouds Labor’s climate summit bid
The Albanese government has left a key diplomatic post vacant as it scrambles to secure hosting rights for a major UN climate summit next year.
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July 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Australia’s Foreign Affairs Department is operating without its top climate diplomat as the Albanese government struggles to lock in the international support required to secure its bid to host a major UN summit in Adelaide in 2026.
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Here's the FY25 "we're only adding RE at ~1/2 the rate needed" update .. 🥲
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July 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Here's the FY25 "we're only adding RE at ~1/2 the rate needed" update .. 🥲
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NEW: The National Party has appointed outspoken critic of Australia’s net zero emissions target, Matt Canavan, to a two-man internal committee tasked with reviewing the party’s policy on the issue.
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Canavan to ‘review’ Nationals’ position on net zero
The most outspoken critic of the Nationals’ net zero policy is one of only two members of an internal party review of the policy.
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June 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
NEW: The National Party has appointed outspoken critic of Australia’s net zero emissions target, Matt Canavan, to a two-man internal committee tasked with reviewing the party’s policy on the issue.
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Tomago aluminium smelter, the nation’s largest electricity user, is in urgent talks to secure billions of dollars in support from the NSW and federal governments to save it from collapse due to crippling energy costs.
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Rio pushes for ‘eye-watering’ Tomago bailout
Australia’s largest electricity user is seeking billions in direct government support to cover spiralling power costs.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Tomago aluminium smelter, the nation’s largest electricity user, is in urgent talks to secure billions of dollars in support from the NSW and federal governments to save it from collapse due to crippling energy costs.
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The government is poised to sign off on an extension to Woodside’s NW Shelf gas development after Anthony Albanese said the transition to renewable energy could not proceed without gas as a back-up — before announcing he would hold a cabinet meeting in Perth next week.
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Labor poised to approve NW Shelf gas project
The Albanese government has given its strongest signal yet that it will approve Woodside’s long-delayed gas development.
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May 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The government is poised to sign off on an extension to Woodside’s NW Shelf gas development after Anthony Albanese said the transition to renewable energy could not proceed without gas as a back-up — before announcing he would hold a cabinet meeting in Perth next week.
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Landfill sites that earn carbon offsets for capturing excess gas emitted from rotting waste will face stricter regulations under a new proposal designed to improve the integrity of the federal government’s carbon credits scheme.
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Landfill carbon offset companies face stricter rules
The government is considering tightening the rules around carbon offsets earned by landfill sites.
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May 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Landfill sites that earn carbon offsets for capturing excess gas emitted from rotting waste will face stricter regulations under a new proposal designed to improve the integrity of the federal government’s carbon credits scheme.
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Clean energy advocates hope Labor can use the policy seeds planted in its first term to deliver its energy transition agenda. The reality will be much harder.
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Can Labor turn a big win into a green energy reality?
Clean energy advocates hope Labor can use the policy seeds planted in its first term to deliver its energy transition agenda. The reality will be much harder.
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May 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Clean energy advocates hope Labor can use the policy seeds planted in its first term to deliver its energy transition agenda. The reality will be much harder.
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Nearly a third of the carbon credits bought by Australia’s top emitting companies last year were based on an offsetting technique that has been banned for future projects after a government review found it would be ineffective at reducing emissions.
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Companies ‘claim credit for keeping forests they never meant to clear’
A carbon market expert says many of the offsets purchased by Australia’s top emitters last year were of low integrity.
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May 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Nearly a third of the carbon credits bought by Australia’s top emitting companies last year were based on an offsetting technique that has been banned for future projects after a government review found it would be ineffective at reducing emissions.
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