coal exports

Forget about the trade spat – coal is passé in much of China, and that's a bigger problem for Australia

20 Jan 2021

China is changing, and it's time Australia's coal exporters faced up to this reality.

A truck transports coal from an open cut mine in Queensland

The Paris Agreement 5 years on: big coal exporters like Australia face a reckoning

15 Dec 2020

The Paris Agreement desperately needs to be updated. Currently the big exporters take no responsibility for the emissions created when those fossil fuels are burned overseas.

China bans Australian coal – now what?

22 Feb 2019

China's unexpected decision to restrict imports of Australian coal is not as alarming as it may first seem, says UNSW Business School's Tim Harcourt.

Dirty habit makes for a grubby future

09 Aug 2013

Australia's coal exports have tripled in the past 25 years. It's our dirty secret that neither side of politics is willing to address, argues David McKnight.