In today’s news, the pressure is mounting on Australia’s biggest climate polluter, AGL, to reduce its enormous carbon footprint with shareholders being urged to support a bid for AGL to disclose short- and long-term targets for emissions reduction.

Promised environmental offsets for new and expanded coal mines in New South Wales have been delayed for years because governments have allowed companies to push back deadlines for protecting sites for conservation.

And climate change is causing some animals to “shape shift” and grow larger extremities such as beaks, ears and tails as the creatures adapt to hotter temperatures.

Proxy adviser lines up against AGL on climate

An investor group has won influential support for its bid to force AGL Energy to set interim emissions reduction targets for its to-be-demerged businesses, further ramping up pressure on the country’s biggest carbon emitter.

Coal companies allowed to delay environmental offsets on NSW mines for up to 10 years

Promised environmental offsets for new and expanded coal mines in New South Wales have been delayed for years because governments have allowed companies to push back deadlines for protecting sites for conservation.

NSW aims for no more species extinctions

Threatened species such as the brush-tailed rock-wallaby and koala will be protected under a NSW government plan to stop animals and plants becoming extinct in national parks.

Climate change means bigger bills - and ears and tails as well

Climate change is causing some animals to “shape shift” and grow larger extremities such as beaks, ears and tails, an Australian review of global scientific research has revealed, as the creatures adapt to hotter temperatures.

Green hydrogen could help solve the puzzle of getting to 100% renewables

It’s one of the common themes of studies that look at the challenge of the transition to 100 per cent renewables. The hardest bit is going to be the last five or ten per cent.