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Have we reached peak neoliberal farce yet? A day after the feds approve Woodside's North-West Shelf climate bomb, Victoria approves a gas import terminal. Now we can give away huge amounts of our gas to be sold overseas only to buy it back and ship it to Victoria to supply the eastern states. Instead of cracking down on this market-driven comedy, Labor bows to its fossil industry donations while we and our economy suffer. Brilliant. #auspol #netzero

#privateEye #quiz #netZero

Excerpt from Private Eye 1650. Eye Quiz. Why has Donald Trump attacked Britain's net zero plans? Is it:
A He's world renowned expert on energy and knows that it's impossible to generate power from anything other than fossil fuels?
B He's a disinterested scholar of British geography and geology, who has made a deep study of Labour's plans and has found several devastating counter-arguments to Ed Miliband's narrative on renewable power.
C He has a lot of oil and gas to sell and would quite like to keep one of his main clients hooked?

The mining company #FortescueMetals – owned by the billionaire #AndrewForrest, who says he aims to meet “real zero” carbon emissions – has sharply #criticised the #Albanese government’s approval of a 40-year life extension for the #NorthWestShelf #gas processing facility.

The company’s chief executive, #DinoOtranto, said the idea that #Australia could lock in #fossilfuel projects until 2070 while still claiming progress toward #netzero was “concerning”. #auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/may/29/australia-news-live-coalition-labor-net-zero-climate-change-woodside-north-west-shelf-tasmania-budget-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-68379e628f08f86f308af76c#block-68379e628f08f86f308af76c

"Only 1 in 4 small businesses expect to reach net-zero by 2050"

#NetZero #Business #Climate #ClimateChange

https://www.edie.net/only-1-in-4-small-businesses-expect-to-reach-net-zero-by-2050/

New #oecd report. Shows that reaching #netzero is still possible but requires urgent action. Discusses the importance of public support, trade, investment and finance, climate adaptation and bridging knowledge gaps. #sustainablefinance www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Fast-tracking Net Zero by Buil...

The economic fantasies of Reform UK

Nigel Farage’s fiscal arithmetic is as eye-catching as it is unserious.
[…]
That reality is the sticking point. Raising the tax threshold to £20,000 is estimated to cost between £50bn and £80bn all on its own. Reform claims to have found a cool £225bn down the back of the Treasury sofa by scrapping net zero and insists it could save more still by cutting funding to quangos. Good luck, as they say, with that.
But how successful will Reform’s opponents be at pointing this out? Shadow chancellor Mel Stride has been out and about, calling Farage’s plans “fantasy economics”, while Labour has gone for “fantasy promises”. Farage’s answer to this charge was that all parties fudge the figures in their manifestos, suggesting Reform’s creative accounting was par for the course. Against the general backdrop of disillusionment with the political establishment, the narrative will be that Reform are no worse than the other parties – and that official estimates should be viewed sceptically anyway.
One attack line might get through. “Trussonomics on steroids” was how the Liberal Democrats responded to Tuesday’s proposals.
The economic fantasies of Reform UK, New Statesman

#failedToDoHomework #fantasyEconomics #netZero #ReformInefficiencyDepartment #Trussonomics #InTheNews

The #EU adopts secondary legislation to support its #NetZero Industry Act #energysky

The EU adopts secondary legisl...

#Glacierwatch #CarbonRemoval #CarbonCapture #ZeroEmissions #NetZero #ClimateCrisis

🌞 Who needs #NetZero when you’ve got the HelioFury Core™?

Converts solar flares directly into smugness, radiation, and ultrafast SSD heat.
Controlled entirely by a rotary phone from 1975.

Real science? No.
Real vibe? 100%.

#SolarFlares #PostApocalypticTech #HDRTTE #RotaryControl #MastodonMadness #DIYFTW #ManxSkunkworks

Experts debunk Farage claim that scrapping #NetZero would save £40bn a year

#ReformUK leader claimed abandoning #climate-friendly policies would help fund his party’s commitments to ending 2-child benefit cap & bringing back Winter Fuel Payment for #OAPs

But his promises have been put under scrutiny, with Treasury civil servant saying the UK Government was spending “nothing on [the] scale” claimed by #Farage.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25195285.experts-debunk-nigel-farage-scrap-net-zero-save-40bn-claim/

#RejectReformUK #FarRight #disinformation #ClimateChange