Bill Bovingdon
@williambovingdon.substack.com
Sustainable Finance, Green Bonds Co-Founder Altius, Director Australian Ethical, Adjunct Fellow UNSW Business School Also, Arsenal, St Kilda FC, guitar and fly fishing
US Greenhush - “They’re doing it, but they are not putting the label on it . . . there’s a lot of political influence and backlash.” www.ft.com/content/82e7...
European green bonds rebound to take share from ‘greenhushed’ US
Issuance in the region will drive global sales to record high this year, despite ‘death of ESG’ in Trump’s America
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BBC World Service - Business Daily, Follow the Money: Europe’s air-con economy | Bill Bovingdon
Brutal, unethical capitalism at its worst 1st, your polluting product causes uber-heatwaves, 2nd you get to sell your gas/coal at surge pricing levels to keep the air-cons running (for those lucky ...
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The anti-climate lobby has been all over UK media this week, pushing stories designed to counter action. There's been almost no pushback from political leaders. Governments need to use these scenes as a teaching moment, to show what climate change means &what it costs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Devastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackled
Spain and France have so far borne the burnt of this summer's wildfires, caused by a succession of heatwaves and prolonged dry spells.
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A common market would help with regional shortages - oh wait….
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d agoWorst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.
"modern climate obstruction no longer loudly denies global warming, but avoids it entirely, By inflating legitimate local debates into a conspiratorial war against renewable energy, [climate obstructors can do] the political work of the fossil fuel industry without ... taking a dime of their money."
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6d agoFantastic @alexhannaford.com piece here at @emorwee.bsky.social's Heated - profiling an anti-solar influencer. This is SUCH a common story: a project planned near someone rich, influential, or both and that person gets radicalised against all wind, all solar, all batteries etc
I suppose we should be grateful the Sunday Times is both-sidesing the idea we should try to cut carbon emissions, rather than dismissing it outright. But it’s still further evidence of how mainstream reporting on climate has got dramatically worse in recent years. www.thetimes.com/article/ed72...
How wildfires put climate (and net zero deadlines) back on the agenda
Much of the country is experiencing the extreme heat scientists have long warned about, but reignited political debate shows no sign of finding consensus
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“The classic example is the climate crisis: younger voters will disproportionately bear the costs of climate change compared with older voters, who will die in the next 20 years.” Bernard Keane’s case for giving younger voters greater say in our democracy. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The case for a blatantly discriminatory Australian voting system
Older Australians are overrepresented in every sphere of life, from politics to the economy and media … and they’re living longer. It’s time we stack the deck in favour of young people. Here’s how
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But data centres need the water more right …? theconversation.com/uk-drought-c...
UK drought: crop harvests at severe risk of collapse
Complex systems require multiple indicators. A UK food resilience index could identify developing weaknesses in the food system before they become failures.
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Bezactly! "But in a heating world, the most powerful thing sport can do is stop lending social licence to the companies selling the products that jeopardise a safe future, and start building partnerships that normalise the solutions our shared future depends on." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
The Tour de France, the World Cup and the future of sport
For the people making sport’s big decisions, athlete safety is the immediate climate concern. But the longer-term play, and greater legacy, is to protect sport itself.
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Community info initiatives like this before our turn with a El Niño summer are invaluable
Doctors for The Environment Australia@docsenvaus.bsky.social · last wk.Our Climate Resilience Workshops at Adelaide Climate Action Week kick off tomorrow in Middleton, then Adelaide on Saturday! Our workshops are free to attend, but places are limited. Register here: linktr.ee/DEAEVENTS
Penny dropping - although as long as the parties of the Right rely on fossil fuel doners we are all toast www.afr.com/world/europe...
Climate change is real – and the Right needs to get serious about it
It is bizarre that while the politics of agriculture has focused on taxes, the actual business is threatened by a phenomenon that bloggers still call a hoax.
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Just as the fossil fuel giants employ political donations and the revolving door to capture parliaments, they use advertising to monopolise the public discourse. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Around the globe governments are banning fossil fuel ads. What are Australian politicians waiting for?
There is nothing democratic about the public realm being used to pressure us towards behaviours that are socially and environmentally destructive. Like reining in the corporate capture of politicians,...
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Nothing Can Prevent the New Wildfires. We Have to Adapt. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...
Opinion | Nothing Can Prevent the New Wildfires. We Have to Adapt.
Suppression is not enough.
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Climate costing NSW www.linkedin.com/posts/newsro...
NSW Climate Change Economic Impact Estimated at $21,288 Per Person | UNSW Business School posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Could climate change already be costing every person in NSW more than $21,000 a year? New modelling by UNSW, commissioned by the NSW Net Zero Commission, suggests global warming had reduced NSW's eco...
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"climate change is harmful, fossil fuels cause it, non- fossil alternatives are viable, & fossil fuel abate- ment or offsetting is hard & risky. What is needed is an explicit, rather than implicit, acknowledgement that fossil fuel phase-out is the dominant strategy for addressing climate change."
Emily Grubert@gruberte.bsky.social · 2w agoIn which I yell at my favorite journal and its thoughtful, talented collection of researchers that we really need to take fossil phase-out seriously as a line of inquiry, and that we would not stand for the level of talking around it as a solution in other settings with very obvious problems:
EV haters Toyota get just desserts - imagine what's coming for US car makers! www.afr.com/companies/tr...
‘Too late’: Toyota scrambles to repel BYD’s local surge
Toyota has dominated the Australian car market for more than two decades, but its crown is under threat from the meteoric rise of Chinese rivals, led by BYD.
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A new poll from @dataforprogress.org and CCI finds that while natural gas greenwashing efforts have been noticeably effective, voters strongly support accountability for natural gas suppliers once they learn about the industry’s history of deception.
Natural Gas Accountability Receives Strong National Support
Voters across party lines support accountability for natural gas companies that intentionally mislead the public about the harms of natural gas.
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"The Fraud of 'Clean' Natural Gas" is the first investigation to trace how the gas industry responded to its methane pollution problem with decades of deception. Read the findings from @rebeccajohn.bsky.social @rebleber.bsky.social @davisallen.bsky.social 👇 climateintegrity.org/uploads/medi...
Extremely important investigation - I cannot emphasise enough how every single freaking day we are dealing with the consequences of the success of this lie. Gas is basically treated like it's not a fossil fuel, even among some climate / energy advocates. It is so so so bad
Center for Climate Integrity@climateintegrity.org · 2w agoNEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
“Alpine ski resorts in New South Wales and Victoria saw climate records shattered at the weekend with maximum temperatures up to 12C above average.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian ski resorts smash July climate records with temperatures 12C above average
Resorts in New South Wales and Victoria face a warm and dry start to the season with only sporadic falls of natural snow in many alpine areas
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It's not too late to send in submissions on the HVO coal expansion - submissions close 2 August. knittingnannas.org/2026/07/21/n...
Nanna News 20 July 2026
Nannas learn a lot at HVO coal expansion public hearing, meet Chris Bowen and drink beer on the Inner West Ale Trail to push for a 25% tax on gas exports.
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Sydney, expert witness in Land and Environment court, explaining the ‘biomass’ intended to supply a coal fired power station to make ‘renewable’ energy is actually the largest semi-arid woodland on the continent, home to myriad species
On my way to Melbourne for the Federal Court hearing of this critical challenge to Woodside’s North West Shelf gas extension out to 2070. Help our client in their final push to reach their fundraising target for this public interest case - they are nearly there!! chuffed.org/project/1358...
Support Our Legal Challenges to the North West Shelf extension
We’re taking the government to court over Woodside’s destructive and damaging gas project!
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Attribution science “could help governments hold oil, gas and coal companies responsible” - if they don’t own the government… Top Science Panel Backs Research Linking Extreme Weather to Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/c...
National Academies Report Backs Climate Change Attribution Science
Attribution science is advancing quickly, researchers said. That could support lawsuits seeking damages for severe events worsened by global warming.
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