Inside the car industry’s climate lobbying pushThe car industry has been driving a co-ordinated lobbying campaign among policymakers to limit emissions cuts from vehicles and to downplay the role of electric vehicles, government documents reveal. This is “a troubling indictment of the fossil...

Global investment in clean energy will extend its lead over spending on fossil fuels in 2023, with solar projects expected to outpace outlays on oil production for the first time.

In March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that government inaction and corporate disinformation have the world on track for an average temperature increase of 2.7C by 2100. Now a new study published by science journal Nature Sustainability has defined what this means -...

After the chainsaws, the quiet: Victoria’s rapid exit from native forest logging is welcome – and long overdueBy the end of the year, Victoria’s trouble-plagued native forest industry will end – six years ahead of schedule. The state’s iconic mountain ash forests and endangered wildlife will at...

The Clean Energy Regulator, the agency responsible for administering the carbon credit scheme in Australia, has signalled that long-withheld data on how carbon credits are issued and calculated will be released next week. This comes as the federal government prioritises better management of the...

G7 disappoints on climate progress without deadlines on gas and coal useClimate experts criticised the G7 group of advanced economies for failing to commit to tougher action on fossil fuels after Germany and Japan prevailed on the continued use of gas and coal respectively.

The South Australian government is pushing through new legislation in an effort to clampdown on climate protestors with fines potentially increasing from $750 to $50,000. It comes a day after four climate protesters were arrested after allegedly throwing paint at the Santos building in Adelaide.

United States oil and gas giant Chevron has acknowledged its flagship carbon capture and storage project off Australia's north-west coast is operating at just a third of its capacity as problems bedevil the facility. Analysts and critics say this raises more questions than answers for the use of...

Environmental activist organization Greenpeace is insisting that Woodside, an oil and gas company, must promptly remove a submerged gas tower located near the Western Australian coastline. Greenpeace CEO David Ritter expressed the "outright arrogance" displayed by fossil fuel owners of the tower in...

Resources Minister Madeleine King will invite oil and gas companies to consider reducing greenhouse gas emissions by using controversial carbon capture and storage technologies. This will put Labor at odds with the Greens who argue carbon capture technology will prolong the use of harmful fossil...