Ryan Cropp
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Energy and Climate Reporter at the Australian Financial Review — Author of Donald Horne (2023) — Get in touch: ryan.cropp@afr.com Signal: ryancropp.91
Despite their professed desire to bring down power bills, the Liberals new energy policy is unlikely to do what it says on the tin.
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Linguistic acrobatics can’t mask Liberal energy policy mess
Despite their professed desire to bring down energy bills, the Liberals new energy policy is unlikely to do what it says on the tin.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Despite their professed desire to bring down power bills, the Liberals new energy policy is unlikely to do what it says on the tin.
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The vibe shift on global climate action has hit the buzz around Brazil’s COP, but the true believers are still there doing work they say is as urgent as ever.
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This year’s global climate summit is different – but not in a good way
The vibe shift on global climate action has hit the buzz around Brazil’s COP, but the true believers are still there doing work they say is as urgent as ever.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The vibe shift on global climate action has hit the buzz around Brazil’s COP, but the true believers are still there doing work they say is as urgent as ever.
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Reviewed Sam Tanenhaus's William F. Buckley bio. insidestory.org.au/the-entertai...
The entertaining insurgent • Dominic Kelly
Conservative activist William F. Buckley cajoled America along the road to the Reagan revolution
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November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Reviewed Sam Tanenhaus's William F. Buckley bio. insidestory.org.au/the-entertai...
The billionaire’s pivot puts the focus on human health and adaptation. But giving up the emissions fight will just make the final bill far higher.
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Bill Gates is right: We must learn to live with climate change
The billionaire’s pivot puts the focus on human health and adaptation. But giving up the emissions fight will just make the final bill far higher.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The billionaire’s pivot puts the focus on human health and adaptation. But giving up the emissions fight will just make the final bill far higher.
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“The Australian Financial Review supports Australia reaching net zero by 2050 to help tackle global warming. We also back the sensible 62 to 70 per cent interim 2035 emissions reduction target announced by the Albanese government last month”
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Labor should seize the decarbonisation policy certainty challenge
Albanese’s government should focus on nailing down the policy settings needed to accelerate emission cuts and connect more clean generation and storage to the mains.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:17 AM
“The Australian Financial Review supports Australia reaching net zero by 2050 to help tackle global warming. We also back the sensible 62 to 70 per cent interim 2035 emissions reduction target announced by the Albanese government last month”
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White smoke has emanated from the department offices and a new acronym has been announced to guide the transition electricity sector: ESEM!
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Radical plan proposed to reinvent the energy market
The government should guarantee the long-term revenue of new renewable energy projects to ensure the security of the grid, according to a major new report.
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August 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
White smoke has emanated from the department offices and a new acronym has been announced to guide the transition electricity sector: ESEM!
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Somewhat reminiscent of Heywood interconnector upgrade a decade ago that was supposed to be finished before the Northern brown coal fired power station closure
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July 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Somewhat reminiscent of Heywood interconnector upgrade a decade ago that was supposed to be finished before the Northern brown coal fired power station closure
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Australia’s Foreign Affairs Department is operating without its top climate diplomat as the Albanese government struggles to lock in the international support required to secure its bid to host a major UN summit in Adelaide in 2026.
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Diplomatic void clouds Labor’s climate summit bid
The Albanese government has left a key diplomatic post vacant as it scrambles to secure hosting rights for a major UN climate summit next year.
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July 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Australia’s Foreign Affairs Department is operating without its top climate diplomat as the Albanese government struggles to lock in the international support required to secure its bid to host a major UN summit in Adelaide in 2026.
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Here's the FY25 "we're only adding RE at ~1/2 the rate needed" update .. 🥲
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July 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Here's the FY25 "we're only adding RE at ~1/2 the rate needed" update .. 🥲
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NEW: The National Party has appointed outspoken critic of Australia’s net zero emissions target, Matt Canavan, to a two-man internal committee tasked with reviewing the party’s policy on the issue.
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Canavan to ‘review’ Nationals’ position on net zero
The most outspoken critic of the Nationals’ net zero policy is one of only two members of an internal party review of the policy.
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June 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
NEW: The National Party has appointed outspoken critic of Australia’s net zero emissions target, Matt Canavan, to a two-man internal committee tasked with reviewing the party’s policy on the issue.
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Tomago aluminium smelter, the nation’s largest electricity user, is in urgent talks to secure billions of dollars in support from the NSW and federal governments to save it from collapse due to crippling energy costs.
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Rio pushes for ‘eye-watering’ Tomago bailout
Australia’s largest electricity user is seeking billions in direct government support to cover spiralling power costs.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Tomago aluminium smelter, the nation’s largest electricity user, is in urgent talks to secure billions of dollars in support from the NSW and federal governments to save it from collapse due to crippling energy costs.
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The government is poised to sign off on an extension to Woodside’s NW Shelf gas development after Anthony Albanese said the transition to renewable energy could not proceed without gas as a back-up — before announcing he would hold a cabinet meeting in Perth next week.
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Labor poised to approve NW Shelf gas project
The Albanese government has given its strongest signal yet that it will approve Woodside’s long-delayed gas development.
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May 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The government is poised to sign off on an extension to Woodside’s NW Shelf gas development after Anthony Albanese said the transition to renewable energy could not proceed without gas as a back-up — before announcing he would hold a cabinet meeting in Perth next week.
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Landfill sites that earn carbon offsets for capturing excess gas emitted from rotting waste will face stricter regulations under a new proposal designed to improve the integrity of the federal government’s carbon credits scheme.
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Landfill carbon offset companies face stricter rules
The government is considering tightening the rules around carbon offsets earned by landfill sites.
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May 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Landfill sites that earn carbon offsets for capturing excess gas emitted from rotting waste will face stricter regulations under a new proposal designed to improve the integrity of the federal government’s carbon credits scheme.
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Clean energy advocates hope Labor can use the policy seeds planted in its first term to deliver its energy transition agenda. The reality will be much harder.
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Can Labor turn a big win into a green energy reality?
Clean energy advocates hope Labor can use the policy seeds planted in its first term to deliver its energy transition agenda. The reality will be much harder.
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May 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Clean energy advocates hope Labor can use the policy seeds planted in its first term to deliver its energy transition agenda. The reality will be much harder.
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Nearly a third of the carbon credits bought by Australia’s top emitting companies last year were based on an offsetting technique that has been banned for future projects after a government review found it would be ineffective at reducing emissions.
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Companies ‘claim credit for keeping forests they never meant to clear’
A carbon market expert says many of the offsets purchased by Australia’s top emitters last year were of low integrity.
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May 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Nearly a third of the carbon credits bought by Australia’s top emitting companies last year were based on an offsetting technique that has been banned for future projects after a government review found it would be ineffective at reducing emissions.
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Nice @ryancropp.bsky.social piece here - on why Labor talked about nuclear power way more than the Coalition did, during the election campaign:
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Why Labor won’t stop talking about nuclear power
Peter Dutton has described the Coalition’s nuclear policy as ‘visionary and necessary’. So why are government MPs the only ones talking about it?
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May 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Nice @ryancropp.bsky.social piece here - on why Labor talked about nuclear power way more than the Coalition did, during the election campaign:
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Several large coal mines have slashed their annual carbon emissions by more than half as a result of mandated changes to accounting methods that have prompted experts to question the reliability of key data underpinning one of Labor’s flagship climate policies.
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Accounting change scrambles coal mine emissions
Changes to measurement methods have led several major coal mines to report drastically lower carbon emissions in 2024.
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April 21, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Several large coal mines have slashed their annual carbon emissions by more than half as a result of mandated changes to accounting methods that have prompted experts to question the reliability of key data underpinning one of Labor’s flagship climate policies.
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LONG READ for your LONG WEEKEND:
Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court changed Australian politics. But has his success become a drag on the community independent movement he champions?
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Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court changed Australian politics. But has his success become a drag on the community independent movement he champions?
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‘Headless movements fall’: Can Holmes à Court maintain the rage?
Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court changed Australian politics. But has his success become a drag on the community independent movement he champions?
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April 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
LONG READ for your LONG WEEKEND:
Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court changed Australian politics. But has his success become a drag on the community independent movement he champions?
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Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court changed Australian politics. But has his success become a drag on the community independent movement he champions?
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Pretty good how’d-we-get-here piece in the Fin on power prices & reduction promises from @ryancropp.bsky.social
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Lots of interesting points made by @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social @tonyrwood.bsky.social and others
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Lots of interesting points made by @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social @tonyrwood.bsky.social and others
‘The big lie’: Why governments can’t deliver cheaper power
Political leaders have been promising lower power bills for two decades, but they should come clean about its true costs.
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March 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Pretty good how’d-we-get-here piece in the Fin on power prices & reduction promises from @ryancropp.bsky.social
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Lots of interesting points made by @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social @tonyrwood.bsky.social and others
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Lots of interesting points made by @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social @tonyrwood.bsky.social and others
Our reporting in December on the eSafety Commissioner’s undeclared trip to Twiggy Forrest’s private AI conference has resulted in a flood of new disclosures
Six months later... Australia's eSafety commissioner puts a dollar figure on the hospitality she received from the Minderoo Foundation and Big Tech.
January 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Our reporting in December on the eSafety Commissioner’s undeclared trip to Twiggy Forrest’s private AI conference has resulted in a flood of new disclosures
Hello. Next month I’m starting a new gig at the AFR covering energy and climate from Canberra. If you know anything about energy and/or climate, let’s chat
January 14, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Hello. Next month I’m starting a new gig at the AFR covering energy and climate from Canberra. If you know anything about energy and/or climate, let’s chat