Jo Lauder
@jolauder.bsky.social
ABC climate reporter, former triple j Hack reporter. Host of Who's Gonna Save Us and Saving the Franklin. Mostly post about books and climate.
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Jo Lauder
@jolauder.bsky.social
· Aug 19
China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age
China has put its economic might behind renewable technologies in a desire to stop relying on imported fossil fuels.
www.abc.net.au
Wrote last week about China's reasons for becoming the world's first electrostate (energy security, air pollution, economic boom, oh and climate) and how it's helping the whole world to kick fossil fuels: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Yessss I am a huge fan of e-bikes and think there should be more subsidies for people to switch to them.
We don't have to add 5 million EVs by 2035. What we actually need to do is remove 5,000,000 ICE vehicles - what we replace them with is up to us.
On yer bike! Australia needs to remove 5 million ICE vehicles by 2035, how we do it is up to us
We don't have to add 5 million EVs by 2035. What we actually need to do is remove 5,000,000 ICE vehicles - what we replace them with is up to us.
thedriven.io
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Yessss I am a huge fan of e-bikes and think there should be more subsidies for people to switch to them.
How do experts rate Australia’s targets? How we’re tracking… and why Aust can’t bank on land use to cut emissions to 2035. My piece with @climateanalytics.org @frankjotzo.bsky.social and Climateworks’ Anna Skarbek.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
How the government's 2035 climate targets stack up, according to experts
After much anticipation, Australia has its new climate targets. Now that the dice have fallen, we consult experts on their assessment of how these targets stack up with what’s at stake.
www.abc.net.au
September 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
How do experts rate Australia’s targets? How we’re tracking… and why Aust can’t bank on land use to cut emissions to 2035. My piece with @climateanalytics.org @frankjotzo.bsky.social and Climateworks’ Anna Skarbek.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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For all those folk in Vic, you might be interested to know that the wild winds we've had last few days has resulted in the lowest 24hr period of brown coal generation on record 🎉
September 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
For all those folk in Vic, you might be interested to know that the wild winds we've had last few days has resulted in the lowest 24hr period of brown coal generation on record 🎉
Wrote last week about China's reasons for becoming the world's first electrostate (energy security, air pollution, economic boom, oh and climate) and how it's helping the whole world to kick fossil fuels: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age
China has put its economic might behind renewable technologies in a desire to stop relying on imported fossil fuels.
www.abc.net.au
August 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Wrote last week about China's reasons for becoming the world's first electrostate (energy security, air pollution, economic boom, oh and climate) and how it's helping the whole world to kick fossil fuels: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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Dr Ella Vines and I enjoyed speaking with Jo Lauder about what the ICJ Advisory Opinion might mean for Australia and our downstream (exported) emissions.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
World Court lights match under Australia's fossil fuel export industry
The International Court of Justice was unequivocal about the consequences for countries that make the climate crisis worse. As one of the world's biggest fossil fuel exporters, it puts Australia on no...
www.abc.net.au
July 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Dr Ella Vines and I enjoyed speaking with Jo Lauder about what the ICJ Advisory Opinion might mean for Australia and our downstream (exported) emissions.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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The ABC sacked our colleague because of her political opinion and to appease a lobby group, the court found. And they spent more than $1 million on ridiculous defences including the she was never sacked and there is no such thing as a Lebanese race. Time for the ABC to rethink how it treats staff.
The ABC (my employer) needs to stop defending this case against Lattouf and settle - including an apology and reinstatement. They should not have taken her off air in such a manner. Her colleagues stand with her.
Flurry of emails exchanged between Ita Buttrose and David Anderson before Antoinette Lattouf’s sacking
Federal court file indicates Buttrose, Anderson and ABC chief content officer communicated on 19 December before Lattouf was taken off air on 20 December
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The ABC sacked our colleague because of her political opinion and to appease a lobby group, the court found. And they spent more than $1 million on ridiculous defences including the she was never sacked and there is no such thing as a Lebanese race. Time for the ABC to rethink how it treats staff.
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It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables
The BBC spoke to locals near a big English solar farm and found the panels “do not really bother them” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What is life like living the shadow of Ashby's solar farms? - BBC News
Residents of Ashby-de-la-Zouch offer mixed views on the fields of solar panels surrounding the town.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables
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Great article from @jolauder.bsky.social on how the gas lobby is trying to stoke fear and fight the shift to cleaner, cheaper electrified homes in Victoria.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
The fossil lobby wants you to stay hooked on gas using this 'playbook'
Analysis by international think tank InfluenceMap has looked at how the gas industry has pushed back against efforts in Victoria to transition away from gas as part of a global campaign to keep househ...
www.abc.net.au
February 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Great article from @jolauder.bsky.social on how the gas lobby is trying to stoke fear and fight the shift to cleaner, cheaper electrified homes in Victoria.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
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🥁 It's that time of year again... We know you've all been waiting for it... Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! 🎉
The Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now
Entry submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards. This is the fifth year for our annual awards program, and every year we’re amazed by the quality and variety of work ent...
coveringclimatenow.org
February 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🥁 It's that time of year again... We know you've all been waiting for it... Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards! 🎉
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January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024.
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
February 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024.
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....
It's a great day to reshare this podcast episode I loved making about someone who took a stand and quit her job because she thought they were spreading climate misinformation during Australia's catastrophic fires.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Who's Gonna Save Us? 01 | Standing up for the climate - ABC listen
Have you ever done something that’s just blown everything up? A single decision that changed everything?
This episode is all about people taking a stand for the climate. It’s about being brave in tho...
www.abc.net.au
January 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
It's a great day to reshare this podcast episode I loved making about someone who took a stand and quit her job because she thought they were spreading climate misinformation during Australia's catastrophic fires.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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"the fact that these fires are burning in unusually dry winter months has highlighted how climate change is reshaping fire seasons around the world"
Jo Lauder at the ABC puts the shocking LA fires in all-important context:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Jo Lauder at the ABC puts the shocking LA fires in all-important context:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
What does climate change have to do with California's fires?
As Los Angeles battles catastrophic wildfires, experts say there are signs climate change is already reshaping fire seasons around the world.
www.abc.net.au
January 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Wrote about climate and fires, got this response on twitter saying actually it's "women like me" driving the fires, not climate change. Great reminder to just never open that site.
January 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Wrote about climate and fires, got this response on twitter saying actually it's "women like me" driving the fires, not climate change. Great reminder to just never open that site.
Big story from ABC reporter Jake Evans. Senator Matt Canavan says the Coalition is latching onto nuclear ..."as a silver bullet, as a panacea because it fixes a political issue for us, that it's low-emission and it's reliable. But it ain't the cheapest form of power."
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Nationals senator claims Coalition introduced nuclear as a political fix
Nationals senator Matthew Canavan has said in an interview that his party introduced a nuclear policy as a political fix, in a video that emerges amid his colleague Keith Pitt announcing he will quit ...
www.abc.net.au
December 20, 2024 at 3:14 AM
Big story from ABC reporter Jake Evans. Senator Matt Canavan says the Coalition is latching onto nuclear ..."as a silver bullet, as a panacea because it fixes a political issue for us, that it's low-emission and it's reliable. But it ain't the cheapest form of power."
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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Minutes after officially recommending a "greenfield" coal mine be approved in Queensland, and approving extensions to three others, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek boldly declared no new coal mines have been approved in 2024.
Government extends coal mines as minister boasts of no new approvals
Minutes after officially recommending a "greenfield" coal mine be approved in Queensland, and approving extensions to three others, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek boldly declared no new coal min...
www.abc.net.au
December 19, 2024 at 10:54 AM
Minutes after officially recommending a "greenfield" coal mine be approved in Queensland, and approving extensions to three others, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek boldly declared no new coal mines have been approved in 2024.
Just after approving three coal mine *extensions*, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek tweeted this just now...
twitter.com/tanya_pliber...
twitter.com/tanya_pliber...
December 19, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Just after approving three coal mine *extensions*, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek tweeted this just now...
twitter.com/tanya_pliber...
twitter.com/tanya_pliber...
New feature on Australia's deadliest disaster, one you've probably never heard of: the 2009 heatwave.
By me and Tyne Logan as part of the new podcast series The Weather That Changed Us. Stunning illustrations by Stacy Gougoulis.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
By me and Tyne Logan as part of the new podcast series The Weather That Changed Us. Stunning illustrations by Stacy Gougoulis.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Australia's deadliest natural disaster flew under the radar but killed hundreds
Public life ground to a halt, many lost power, and scores of people died behind closed doors. What sounds like the start of a post-apocalyptic movie is in fact Melbourne in January 2009.
www.abc.net.au
December 17, 2024 at 5:08 AM
New feature on Australia's deadliest disaster, one you've probably never heard of: the 2009 heatwave.
By me and Tyne Logan as part of the new podcast series The Weather That Changed Us. Stunning illustrations by Stacy Gougoulis.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
By me and Tyne Logan as part of the new podcast series The Weather That Changed Us. Stunning illustrations by Stacy Gougoulis.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
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I had a really lovely time talking to Tyne Logan from the ABC for this episode about the 2016 South Australia blackout: a moment that **still** defines how risk and threat are framed for Australia's electrical power generation technologies in politics and media:
The Weather That Changed Us | SA's Power Blackout - ABC listen
Violent winds knocked down electricity transmission towers in South Australia and caused a massive blackout, plunging the state into darkness also started a heated national conversation about renewabl...
www.abc.net.au
December 16, 2024 at 10:30 AM
I had a really lovely time talking to Tyne Logan from the ABC for this episode about the 2016 South Australia blackout: a moment that **still** defines how risk and threat are framed for Australia's electrical power generation technologies in politics and media:
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Brilliant feature on the ABC this morning by @jolauder.bsky.social, @journalims.bsky.social and colleagues who aren’t on BSky yet.
Climate change is rarely this compelling.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Climate change is rarely this compelling.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
'Silent killer' heatwave in 2009 a deadly wake-up call for Australia
Public life ground to a halt, many lost power, and scores of people died behind closed doors. What sounds like the start of a post-apocalyptic movie is in fact Melbourne in January 2009.
www.abc.net.au
December 16, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Brilliant feature on the ABC this morning by @jolauder.bsky.social, @journalims.bsky.social and colleagues who aren’t on BSky yet.
Climate change is rarely this compelling.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Climate change is rarely this compelling.
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...
Worth re-listening to this amazing story from @cheyno.bsky.social about the group of uni students in Vanuatu who started the climate case in the ICJ.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Who's Gonna Save Us? 04 | We fought the law - ABC listen
Gomeroi woman Dorothy Tighe stood up to a room full of powerful people for her country. Student Solomon Yeo took his message from a Vanuatu university to the UN General Assembly.
Solomon's story and...
www.abc.net.au
December 4, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Worth re-listening to this amazing story from @cheyno.bsky.social about the group of uni students in Vanuatu who started the climate case in the ICJ.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Lawyers representing Tiwi Islanders trying to stop a gas pipeline running through their traditional sea country have been ordered to pay more than $9 million to gas giant Santos for its legal costs.
Lawyers for Tiwi Island group that tried to block gas project ordered to pay $9 million to Santos
Lawyers representing Tiwi Islanders trying to stop a gas pipeline running through their traditional sea country have been ordered to pay more than $9 million to gas giant Santos for its legal costs.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Lawyers representing Tiwi Islanders trying to stop a gas pipeline running through their traditional sea country have been ordered to pay more than $9 million to gas giant Santos for its legal costs.
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the average American fridge consumes about as much energy as the average person from Pakistan
November 26, 2024 at 6:37 AM
the average American fridge consumes about as much energy as the average person from Pakistan
It's so nice to be back and reunited with my parasocial friends from twitter 2 years ago.
November 18, 2024 at 4:28 AM
It's so nice to be back and reunited with my parasocial friends from twitter 2 years ago.