A slew of new reports have revealed gaping holes in the Coalition’s approach to climate change, including a failure to account for climate threats in rescue plans for endangered species, and further failure to account for increased soil carbon emissions in its recently released net zero “plan”.The...

As the year winds down, things are heating up for the Big 4 banks. At the NAB, ANZ and Westpac AGMs this week, the big question for the banks is which of them has agreed to finance Accel Energy, AGL’s coal-burning, climate wrecking spin-off?Electricity prices are set to fall to their lowest level...

Coal is set to be snuffed out from Australia’s electricity system up to a decade earlier than planned under a radical blueprint for the power grid laid out by the The Australian Energy Market Operator, which runs the national electricity network.

A diplomat hailed as one of the author’s of the Paris Agreement has expressed her disappointment that Australian PM Scott Morrison “walked back” elements of Australia’s Glasgow climate commitments before the “ink was dry on the paper”.

New figures reveal record wind and solar output, and record-low output from fossil fuel generators across the September quarter. As a result, electricity prices are falling in South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria – where solar and wind resources are abundant – but rising in coal-reliant New South...

The New South Wales government has granted a mine plan, it has yet to see, State Significant Infrastructure (SSI) status. This comes less than a year after the Dendrobium coal mine in the Illawarra had its bid for an extension rejected by the Independent Planning Commission, which found the project...

Labor has released the climate policy it will take to the Federal election. It's less ambitious than their previous policy and falls well short of what's required to help rein in global warming. The test for Labor is not whether they can promise something a bit better than one of the worst...

Labor is set to unveil a new medium term emissions reduction target and climate policy measures, including investments in renewable jobs, after its shadow cabinet considers the proposals this morning.  

Queensland could grow its economy to $780 billion a year and require a million extra workers under a well-managed shift to net zero by 2050, according to a new report by Deloitte Access Economics commissioned by the Climate Council. 

Australia’s attempts to block UNESCO listing the Great Barrier Reef as a World Heritage site “in danger” has yet again put the country out of step on the global stage, with a dozen nations opposing Australia’s “highly inappropriate” move to delay the listing.