Since signing the Paris Agreement, Australia’s fossil gas exports have doubled, and coal exports have increased significantly. The Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels offers an opportunity to focus on how countries like Australia can phase out fossil fuels. This paper covers four steps to phase out fossil fuels with minimal economic...

Australians are suffering from climate disasters that are accelerating as climate change worsens. The extraction and use of fossil fuels is a key factor driving climate change and the resulting increasing costs of natural disasters. This paper proposes a levy on fossil fuel exports could make the fossil fuel industry pay for the harms it...

This paper outlines how unlimited gas exports over the past decade have increased energy prices for Australians and raised little money for the public. The Australian Government’s response is a ‘gas reservation scheme’. The paper finds that the proposal in December’s Gas market review report (GMR) report looks unlikely to fix gas policy.

The Australian Government has accepted that gas exports are causing supply shortages and raising energy prices for Australians. This paper examines two policy options reportedly considered by the Government that would favour rival gas companies, and that may or may not be effective in reducing gas prices for some users.

This paper reveals that the decision to allow unrestricted gas exports from the Australian east coast gas market has led to a tripling of domestic wholesale gas and electricity prices, since exports began in 2015. The paper proposes that the only way to bring down Australian gas prices is to restrict gas exports.