The Australia Institute asked 661 South Australians a series of questions about electric vehicles.
The Australia Institute conducted a state wide survey of 661 South Australians people 3 August and 15 August 2018, online through Research Now. Results were post-weighted to match South Australian demographics by gender and age, according to 2016 census data.
New research from The Australia Institute shows that South Australians strongly support electric vehicles and want governments at all levels to implement a range of policies that would encourage more electric vehicles onto our state’s roads.
“We South Australians are well and truly ready for more electric vehicles on our roads and it’s high time the government caught up,” said Noah Schultz-Byard, SA projects manager at The Australia Institute.
The Australia Institute Climate & Energy Program has released the December National Energy Emissions Audit, authored by renowned energy expert Dr Hugh Saddler, covering emissions in the electricity sector over the previous month of November.
Key findings:
A new report released today by The Australia Institute explores how Fossil Fuel Free Zones (FFFZs) could contribute to action on climate change.
Written by Fergus Green of the London School of Economics and Political Science, the paper draws on the history of Nuclear Weapon Free Zones that helped limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
“Action on climate change needs not just policies to reduce emissions, but also to control the supply, transport and use of fossil fuels,” said Mr Green.
“25 countries have pledged to phase-out coal-fired power, France and New Zealand are phasing out offshore oil and gas and gas ‘fracking’ is banned in numerous jurisdictions.
The Queensland Labor Government has offered Adani a “beneficial” royalty deal that would loan hundreds of millions, on subsidised terms it is keeping secret, under a “transparent policy framework” that was a few dot points at the end of a press release.
It has also offered Adani free road upgrades worth $100 million, despite Adani’s promise to build the roads for their near exclusive use. The government has repeatedly blocked access to documents about these subsidies. They should be withdrawn.
The Queensland Government is offering major financial subsidies to Adani’s coal project, including a secret deal on royalties worth hundreds of millions and a free access road worth $100 million, shows a new report from The Australia Institute.
The report estimates the royalty deal will lend Adani between $215 million to $385 million, on terms the Government is still keeping entirely secret.
A joint statement by 41 of Australia’s top scientist and experts, published today by The Australia Institute, has “strongly rejected” the WA Fracking Inquiry’s analysis of potential greenhouse gas emissions that the Government relied on to lift the fracking moratorium.
Signatories to the joint statement include many of Australia’s leading climate scientists, unlike the Fracking Inquiry which included no climate scientists.
The misleading assumptions of the Inquiry that led to the “seriously underestimated” potential climate impacts of fracking include:
Western Australia’s economy is heavily impacted by the resource sector. 22% of gross state production comes from resources, making it heavily exposed to the booms and busts of global resource markets.
The established gas industry in Western Australia comprises large-scale offshore gas fields focussed on export markets and a number of smaller onshore gas producers supplying domestic users.
Resource royalties and taxes for petroleum (oil and gas) generated $576 million in revenue, or about 2% of total revenues, for the Western Australian government in 2016-17.
Australia is firmly at the bottom of a new index of major greenhouse gas emitters, ranking 55 out of 60, putting it in the same group as President Trump’s USA, and Saudi Arabia when it comes to rising emissions and poor climate policies.
The Australia Institute Climate & Energy Program has contributed to the 2018 Climate Change Performance Index, which finds Australia has once again earned a ‘very low’ performance ranking.
Key Findings
New government data released today shows Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are still on the rise and Australia is still not on track to meet our Paris target.
New Australia Institute analysis shows emissions are at their highest since June 2011 (before the introduction of the carbon price).
“Over the last five years this Government has failed to put in place any policies that have reduced Australia’s national emissions,” said Matt Grudnoff, report author and senior economist at The Australia Institute.
“This also makes it the fourth year in row that emissions have been increasing.
