Lachlan Carey

Nov 15, 2023 | lowyinstitute.org | Lachlan Carey

Earlier this month, a group of 15 countries, known as the High Ambition Coalition, called on leaders at the COP28 Climate Summit to deliver an “urgent phaseout of coal-fired power generation”. Meanwhile, a group of Pacific Island nations has pressed Australia, a major fossil fuel producer, to join this pledge. As logical as such a plan might appear, the Albanese government has been right to ignore these calls.

Oct 12, 2023 | phenomenalworld.org | Kate Mackenzie |Tim Sahay |Lachlan Carey |Alejandra Jiménez

The energy transition is underway and the global North is putting up the cash. In our series, we have investigated questions about the international hierarchy of money, the distribution of economic power, and trade wars. Today, we turn to labor, which will determine whether the energy transition can develop a mass constituency—or whether it flounders as workers are left behind and rebel. In this new political and economic context, a raft of questions are emerging.