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Die International Energy Agency stellt im Vorfeld der #COP28 ein einen neuen Bericht namens Net Zero Road dar, wie Klimaneutralität im Energiesektor bis 2050 erreicht werden kann. Ihr Vorsitzender Fatih Birol hat sich wegen der stark gestiegenen Investitionen in erneuerbare Energien optimistisch geäußert, verlangt aber erheblich größere Anstrengungen und verzichtet offenbar diplomatisch auf Kritik an einzelnen Ländern. Biro spricht ausdrücklich von grünem Wachstum. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/26/staggering-green-growth-gives-hope-for-15c-says-global-energy-head
In Frankreich beginnt in dieser Woche eine öffentliche Debatte um ein großes lithium-bergbauprojekt im zentralmassiv. Der umfassende Artikel beleuchtet eine Vielzahl von Aspekten des lithium-Abbaus und der zunehmenden Opposition dagegen, die eng mit dem Kampf gegen die individuelle motorisierte Mobilität verbunden ist. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/course-au-lithium-made-in-france-une-opportunite-a-saisir-ou-un-mirage-ecologique-20240310_FQOVXTBNKJC5NJ7EZI2UQKOAIY/in
Dichter und sehr gut dokumentierter Überblicksratikel über die Expansionspläne der Öl- und Gasindustrie. Aus unerschlossenen Feldern sollen 230 Milliarden Barrel Öläquivalent gefördert werden - im klaren Widerspruch zum Pariser Abkommen. Durch Ausbeutung neuer Lager werden bis 2025 voraussichtlich 70 Gt CO<sub>2</sub> und damit 17% des Budgets für das 1,5° Ziel ausgestoßen. Eingegangen wird auch auf den Ausstiegsplan des Tyndall Centre. https://taz.de/Run-auf-fossile-Brennstoffe/!5973686/
Die Pläne der Kohle-, Öl- und gasproduzierenden Staaten zur Ausweitung der Förderung würden 2030 zu 460% mehr Kohle, 83% mehr Gas und 29% mehr Ölproduktion führen, als mit dem Pariser Abkommen vereinbar ist. Der aktuelle Production Gap Report der Vereinten Nationen konzentriert sich auf die 20 stärksten Verschmutzer-Staaten, deren Pläne fast durchgängig in radikalem Widerspruch zum Pariser Abkommen stehen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report
Report: https://productiongap.org/
20 reiche Länder planen bis 2050 neue Öl- und Gas-Projekte, die zusammen weitere 173 Gigatonnen CO<sub>2</sub>-Emissionen verursachen werden, wenn es nicht gelingt sie zu stoppen. Oil Change International hat einen Bericht über den Anteil der verschiedenen Staaten an den Expansionsplänen veröffentlicht. Mit einem Drittel entfällt der Hauptanteil auf die USA.
Mehr zur fossilen Expansion: https://hypothes.is/search?q=tag%3A%22process%3A%20fossil%20development%22
Das Highjacking des UN-Klimaprozesses durch die Fossilindustrien betreiben die Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate in sehr konkreter Weise. Kurz vor der COP28 wurden Notizen zur Vorbereitung von Gesprächen der Emirate mit 27 Staaten bekannt: Bei Klimatreffen sollten gemeinsame Projekte mit der Adnoc zur Öl- und Gasförderung und mit Masdar im Bereich der Erneuerbaren angesprochen werden sollten. Adnoc und Masdar werden von Sultan Al Jaber geleitet, dem Präsidenten der COP28 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/27/cop28-host-uae-planned-promote-oil-deals-climate-talks
any of his words did not getinto the Dictionary, such as one for Brizvegas, the local nickname forBrisbane, but thousands of others did.
Die obersten 2000 m der Ozeane haben 2023 15 Zettajoule Wärme mehr absorbiert als 2022. Die Erwärmung dieser Schichten verringert den Austausch mit den kälteren unteren Schichten und belastet die marinen Ökosysteme dadurch zusätzlich. Bisher sind keine Zeichen für eine Beschleunigung der Zunahme des Wärmehinhalts im Verhältnis zu den Vorjahren zu erkennen. Die Oberflächentemperatur der Ozeane lag im ersten Halbjahr 0,1°, im zweiten Halbjahr aber für die Wissenschaft überraschende 0,3 Grad über der des Jahres 2022. Schwere Zyklone, darunter der längste bisher beobachtete überhaupt, trafen vor allem besonders vulnerable Gebiete.
Study: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-024-3378-5
Report: https://www.globalwater.online/#content
Kurzer und verwirrter Artikel zum australischen Kohlereichtum. Einerseits wird behauptet, dass Australien den weltweit höchsten CO2-Ausstoß pro Kopf habe. Andererseits wird auf seine potenzielle Rolle bei der globalen Energiewende hingewiesen, allerdings ohne Fakten zu benennen. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000200974/kohle-bringt-kohle
Der Critical Raw Materials Actt wird von Industrie-Lobbies benutzt, um Einschränkungen beim Zugang zu Rohmaterialien abzubauen, und zwar auch dann, wenn es nicht um die Energieversorgung geht. IT-, Rüstungs- und Raumfahrtindustrie versuchen von der Krisensituation bei den neuen Energien zu profitieren. Die Libéation berichtet über einen neuen Report von Lobbying-Warchdogs. Die Liste der kritischen Rohmaterialien wurde bereits von 15 auf 34 Stoffe erweitert. https://www.liberation.fr/international/europe/ue-le-critical-raw-materials-act-un-open-bar-pour-lindustrie-miniere-20231112_HZUR6376QJCZVBM5IGIUR6V2QE/
Bei hohen Temperaturen und niedriger Luftfeuchtigkeit ist es in Queensland und New South Wales zu schweren Buschfeuern gekommen. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000192437/sieben-meter-hohe-flammen-buschbr228nde-w252ten-in-queensland
Geplante Klima-Regulierungen der Labour-geführten Regierung Australiens würden es dem Guardian zufolge ermöglichen, dass zehn Kohlekraftwerke ihre Emissionen bis 2030 weiter steigern. Blieben sie unter den festgesetzten Limits, könnten sie Verschmutzungsrechte lukrativ an andere Unternehmen verkaufen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/03/labor-coalmine-safeguard-mechanism-climate-scheme-emissions-benefits
In den G20 Ländern haben die Emissionen durch Kohleverbrennung seit 2015 um 9% zugenommen. Australien verursacht - einer Analyse des Think Tanks Ember zufolge - noch immer von allen G20 Länder die höchsten Pro-Kopf-Emissionen durch Kohleverbrennung. Sie liegen bei über 4 Tonnen CO<sub>2</sub> im Jahr, das ist etwa eine Tonne mehr als in China. Auch in Südkorea sind die Pro-Kopf-Emissionen durch Kohle höher als in China. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/05/australia-has-highest-per-capita-co2-emissions-from-coal-in-g20-analysis-finds
Ember-Bericht: https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/g20-per-capita-coal-power-emissions-2023/
In der tasmanischen See südlich von Australien könnte es Prognosen zufolge im kommenden Sommer eine Hitzewelle mit Temperaturanomalien geben, die alle bisherigen Messergebnisse bei weitem übertreffen. Es werden schwere Schädigungen der Ökosysteme befürchtet. Die Tangwälder in diesem Gebiet sind bereits zu 95% zerstört.
The latest report from the Climate Council of Australia, Aim High, Go Fast: Why Emissions Need to Plummet This Decade, lays out the science behind the necessity of urgent near-term climate action.
Seit Ende Juni wird im Ozean vor der nordaustralischen Küste eine marine Hitzewelle festgestellt. Sie betrifft etwas eine Million Quadratkilometer. Negative Auswirkungen auf das Great Barrier Reef und auf die Fischpopulationen werden befürchtet. Das Ereignis bestätig den Trend zu immer mehr und immer längeren Hitzewellen in den Gewässern um Australien. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/22/marine-heatwave-in-north-east-queensland-sets-off-alarm-over-health-of-great-barrier-reef
As a rough rule of thumb, based on analysis in Australia, to achieve a one hundred percent 00:08:21 renewable electricity grid, you need about one gigawatt of power for every one million people, plus probably twenty hours of energy storage to give yourself plenty of leeway from the five hours minimum number in the recent studies I mentioned earlier. So that’s twenty gigawatt hours of energy storage per million people in a well-connected high-energy-use country like Aus, with good wind and solar resources. That equates to a total Australian requirement of about 00:08:46 five hundred gigawatt hours in a country that has storage potential about three hundred times
The US report, released in 2021, warned: “Intensifying physical effects will exacerbate geopolitical flashpoints, particularly after 2030, and key countries and regions will face increasing risks of instability and need for humanitarian assistance
Die australischen Grünen wollen die Labour-Regierung zwingen, einen bisher ih wichtigen Teilen geheimgehaltenen Sicherheitsbericht vollständig zu publizieren. Sie gehen davon aus, dass die Regierung explosive Informationen über Sicherheitsrisiken durch die globale Erhitzung vor der Bevölkerung verbirgt. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/04/declassified-climate-crisis-report-greens-labor-albanese
Die australische Regierung fördert aktiv die Vernetzung der Wirtschaft mit dem größten mineralölkonzern der Welt der saudischen Aramco - die auch von allen Firmen der Welt den höchsten emissionsausstoß verursacht. Aramco hat im März einen Gewinn von 161 Milliarden Dollar bekannt gegeben, den größten Gewinn in der gesamten Geschichte der Mineralölindustrie. der Guardian berichtet über Proteste gegen dazu geplantes regierungsevent.
Australien strebt an die Industrie für die gesamte Supply Chain für Lithium auf dem eigenen Territorium aufzubauen. Australien liefert 50% des weltweit für Batterien verwendeten lithiums exportiert aber bisher nur das Rohmaterial nach China, dass die Lithium raffinierung kontrolliert. Die Abhängigkeit von China bei der lithium-produktion zu beenden, ist eine Priorität der australischen und der amerikanischen Regierung. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/business/australia-lithium-refining.html
Australia is a wonderful country and accepts people from different religions and cultural backgrounds. Apart from the multicultural population, this country has so much to offer. Cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and many more have great employment opportunities.
People here live quality of life. This land provides numerous career opportunities for those who want to excel in their career. Australia is well-known for its higher-quality of education. The economic growth is quite steady and you can have a high standard of living.
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The site contains a timeline that documents key years in which the open movement, open access, open government, and open data concepts were introduced. The year that CC Australia was established is included in the timeline.
Civil engineers are responsible for developing and creating infrastructure such as roads, bridges, buildings, and water supply systems, as well as resolving environmental and sustainability challenges.
Studying abroad is both exciting and stressful at the same time because it means that you will have to go through a great deal of things that you are not used to. For one thing, you will have to adjust to a different atmosphere.
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Willis, O. (2021, October 19). The pandemic won’t end with a bang, but more likely a fizzle. Here’s how. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2021-10-20/covid-19-pandemic-when-does-it-end-become-endemic-like-flu/100549816
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https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/blog/article/865/
Re: Junior Atlas of Indigenous Australia
Published criticisms of this excellent book bear the hallmarks of a style of racism that is extraordinarily difficult to counter, because so few people have the intellectual training to understand the difference between evidence-based accounts of Indigenous Australia and popular mythologies that misrepresent the facts. These criticisms are entirely unreasonable.
This sounds a bit like Australian political culture is facing the same sort of issues that are being see in the United States with respect to ideas like critical race theory. Groups are protesting parts of history and culture that they don't understand instead spending some time learning about them.
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Dr Greg Kelly. (2021, July 2). As a pediatrician I’m going on record saying that allowing kids to be freely infected with a novel disease that has unknown long term consequences is the worst idea of 2021 despite being a pretty crowded field so far #COVID19 [Tweet]. @drgregkelly. https://twitter.com/drgregkelly/status/1411083905034117120
Michael McCarthy. (2021, August 27). #COVD19 vax rates are still increasing in Australia. The over 70s are approaching 90% with first doses. The red line is the rate for all people >=16. That should reach 60% soon. Https://t.co/NH3Q7jumgT [Tweet]. @mickresearch. https://twitter.com/mickresearch/status/1431185640884826112
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But itwas a kid’s action film called The Quest in the United States (FrogDreaming in Australia) that heavily influenced me.
I too was incredibly taken by the film The Quest!
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Health sector facing ‘challenges not seen in a century’ as Victoria issues rare Code Brown. (2022, January 17). ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-18/victoria-records-more-covid-19-deaths-hospitalisations-and-cases/100762978
ReconfigBehSci. (2022, January 14). man who contracted potentially disease and then violated public health orders tries to cross borders by providing incorrect info on key docs = just fine is not something I foresaw from this corner... Once consistency is thrown out as a standard, rational debate is impossible... [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1481929150042619908
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Mike Honey 💉💉💉. (2022, January 27). Here’s the latest variant picture for Australia. BA.1 (Omicron) is still very dominant. The new sub-lineage BA.1.1 (with the Spike R346K mutation) is significant, but not growing rapidly. Https://t.co/LsOCkUQhai [Tweet]. @Mike_Honey_. https://twitter.com/Mike_Honey_/status/1486654152939765766
Bennetts, Shannon. ‘Parent and Child Mental Health during COVID-19 in Australia: The Role of Pet Attachment’. PsyArXiv, 17 January 2022. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/r2xhq.
Queensland schools to resume with mask mandate, as 13 more COVID-19 deaths recorded. (2022, January 30). ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-30/qld-coronavirus-covid19-13-deaths/100783416
Andrew Account for lags Kunzmann. (2022, January 30). Wait two years before we can tell who took the correct approach. OK, we’ll check back in March. Https://t.co/9ypiVCK428 [Tweet]. @1987Andrewk. https://twitter.com/1987Andrewk/status/1487727392286248963
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Dr Miller - vax kids asap. (2022, January 19). That whole opening up going well for Australian inbound tourism then. Https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/covid-4/coronavirus-australia https://t.co/1nkLPhuZxw [Tweet]. @drajm. https://twitter.com/drajm/status/1483775564410667011
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NSW records 22 deaths, 91,928 COVID-19 cases as rapid tests added to daily infection tallies. (2022, January 12). ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-13/nsw-records-22-deaths-and-91928-covid-cases/100753504
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Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷 💉 💉 💉. (2022, January 7). Seasonality, huh? Https://t.co/WcarGXqRSY [Tweet]. @DGBassani. https://twitter.com/DGBassani/status/1479278943328944130
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A nice overview of indigenous art in Australia from about the 1940's until today. Some fantastic pieces in here.
Australia's giant monolith Ayers Rock was renamed Uluru in 1993, switching from its colonial namesake, former South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers, to the language of its traditional owners, the Anangu people.In 2002, that dual name was officially reversed, making it Uluru/Ayers Rock. Almost all Australians now refer to it as Uluru.
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He is the first person in Australia to be charged by AFP with foreign interference under laws passed by the Federal Parliament in 2018.
Australia's Cyber Security Strategy: $1.66 billion dollar cyber security package = AFP gets $88 million; $66 million to critical infrastructure organisations to assess their networks for vulnerabilities; ASD $1.35 billion (over a decade) to recruit 500 officers.
Reasons Dutton gives for package:
What is defined as critical infrastructure is expanded and subject to obligations to improve their defences.
Supporting cyber resilience of SMEs through information, training, and services to make them more secure.
The Cyber Test Range is the largest commercial cyber range in Australia, providing safe virtual environment to practice handling real-world cyber warfare scenarios, deliver world class training and evaluation of the latest cyber threats, cyber technologies and cyber talent.
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Before implementing Alex 2.5 years ago, IP Australia staffers were taking 12,000 calls per month."Now I'm not saying Alex was the only intervention we had, but it was one of the main ones. Acting on the insights we were getting from Alex, we're now down to 5,000 calls per month and still dropping," Stokes said. "The value for money and return on investment is quite good."
IP Australia using chatbox named Alex to reduce calls received
Deloitte has undoubtedly been the fastest grower in the last three years, seeing a 32% jump in revenue to $2 billion. In terms of growth, market leader PwC followed in second spot at 22% growth, with revenues up to $2.4 billion. EY and KPMG both grew their turnover by 20%.
Growth of over 20% by all the big four
Impact of staffing cap
The impact of staffing caps has been highlighted by numerous commentators and almost certainly plays a significant role in putting pressure on the planning workforce.
Staffing cap recommendation
That government review NDIA data to determine if there are staffing issues limiting the number of planners relative to the demand for plans. If this is the case, we argue that government should relax staffing caps.
So the solution for the U.S.’s relatively high poverty rate will probably rely little on personal responsibility and moral rectitude. Instead, the U.S. should look to European countries, or to Australia and Canada, for ideas on how to reduce poverty. There’s just no substitute for a strong social safety net.
Poverty is not due to individuals, especially when class mobility in the USA does not exist anymore.
This makes me wonder about the realities of Australia’s indigenous people and and systemic inequality in Australia’s society.
You might be interested in the last section of a recent episode of <cite>On the Media</cite>. It discusses a documentary (bordering on reality show) relating to indigenous peoples of Canada, which I think made brief mention of Australia and a similar project there. While I'm sure there are some very striking differences between these indigenous peoples, there are also some not surprising similarity in the ways in which they are exploited and marginalized.
In general I liked the idea of what the documentary was and represented and wish there were versions for other countries.
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. ‘no reliable evidence’ does not seem an accurate reflection of the body of evidence”;
From an e-mail conversation with an employee of Cochrane Australia about this claim:
Happy to give some background to this.
Cochrane Australia was contracted by NHMRC as technical advisors to provide a methodological assessment of the NHMRC Homeopathy Review (a review of the evidence that was undertaken by a third party). The statement quoted below (with vital text omitted) comes from our technical report. It’s our understanding that our report was obtained through an FOI request by Brauer; it’s not publicly available.
We addressed this issue last year when we were contacted by The Guardian, see https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/30/homeopathy-company-investigated-over-ebook-advocating-treatment-of-babies.
The statement from the report is a technical comment on generic wording used in the Review. In our report we repeatedly agree with the conclusions of the NHMRC Homeopathy Review, as reiterated in the quote from The Guardian article. The deletion of text by Brauer is misleading. (We’re essentially making the general point that you can have reliable evidence that there is no evidence of effectiveness.)
There’s a few less apostles in Australia’s Twelve Apostles Marine National Park. In 2005, one of the largest and most intricate of the offshore sea stacks crumpled into dust in front of a watching family
It's still very impressive to see.
one particular book shop in Australia has embraced the exact opposite policy – instead of focusing on the cover, they want people to focus on the contents without even knowing what the cover looks like.
Curious.
Students say textbooks are too expensive – could an open access model be the answer?
I have been worried for a little while now about the construction industry in Australia turning their apprentices (heavily subsidised by Govt) into "sub-contractors" once there is no more subsidy available when the apprenticeship is completed.
It means that (often) young people are turfed into the business world with little business acumen, still treating themselves as "employees" of the company/tradesman who indentured their skills learning. Unable to negotiate their own income and terms because of limited financial planning skills.
If apprentices are to be shoved into this world, they are doomed to fail unless they are provided with the adequate business governance learning and advice. Understanding their legal and fiscal obligations as a sub-contractor is vital and being able to say NO to companies who demand rights to monopoly over their contractual services is imperative.
Perhaps a belief endures in these women that sidling up to men with power, rather than organising for it collectively, will yield individual gains.
The recognition of feminism is that women exist at a social disadvantage to a history that privileges and resources men at their expense.
...and yet they really do believe that by pandering to the blokes, they'll be treated with respect and equality!