In today’s news, the former UN Secretary-General has called out the Morrison Government’s climate inaction and calls on the PM to at least halve Australia’s emissions by 2030 and commit to net zero by 2050 to help prevent further climate chaos.

It’s a call echoed by Labor’s shadow climate spokesman Chris Bowen, who will tell the Better Futures Forum that the job of rapidly reducing emissions needs to start immediately.

And the world’s biggest miner, BHP, sees coal as such a huge liability in a decarbonising world it is willing to pay a buyer $275 million to take the biggest coal mine in NSW off its hands.

Australia must do its part and lift its emissions-reduction commitments

As last week's sobering report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change outlined, the future looks bleak unless humanity pays heed to the science. To avoid the most extreme impacts of climate change, we need co-ordinated and comprehensive global climate action from all nations. And Australia plays a vital role in our global ability to carve out a path to a better future for all.

‘We can’t begin in 2049’: Chris Bowen calls for stronger climate goals as he signals Labor’s plan

The shadow climate change minister, Chris Bowen, is to send his clearest signal that federal Labor is planning a more ambitious medium-term emissions reduction target than the Coalition, as well as committing to net zero emissions by 2050.

‘Negative value’: BHP struggles to offload NSW’s biggest coal pit

Mining giant BHP would pay a bidder about $275 million to take the biggest coal mine in NSW off its hands even as prices of the fossil fuel soar to levels not seen since 2008.

Russia's 2021 Wildfires Now Largest in Its Recorded History

Russia’s 2021 wildfires are already its largest in the history of satellite observations, burning across 17.08 million hectares of land, the Greenpeace Russia environmental group has said.

Gas mining hurts - it's time to choose a better future for every Australian

New gas projects threaten vast tracts of country and communities across Australia - from Western Australia's stunning Kimberley to the Northern Territory's Beetaloo and NSW's Pilliga Forest.