In today’s news, NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean has said that he believes the state’s coal burning power stations could close earlier than currently planned and help NSW replace coal fired electricity with renewables by 2030.

The Sydney lockdown has reportedly exacerbated inequity in the areas hardest hit by Covid and this is being made worse by a lack of access to green space.

And, wildfires have scorched a record amount of forest and steppe land in Russia so far this year, an area amounting to half the size of Germany, an environmental organisation says.

NSW can  end  its  coal  power  by  2030:  Kean

NSW can stop using coal power by 2030 and meet a UN deadline for greater action on climate change, the state’s energy minister Matt Kean said.

Sydney’s ‘haves and have-nots’: poor access to green space in LGAs of concern

The Sydney lockdown has exacerbated inequity in the areas hardest hit by Covid and this is being made worse by a lack of access to green space, according to Guardian analysis of data from the Australian Urban Observatory.

Russia burns as climate change scorches forest and steppe

Wildfires have scorched a record amount of forest and steppe land in Russia so far this year, an area amounting to half the size of Germany, an environmental organisation says.

‘We’re going after creatives that greenwash fossil fuels’: the group targeting ad agencies

Jamie Henn, a co-founder of the climate group 350.org, had for a long time noticed a gap in climate advocacy that many had overlooked: while the fossil fuel industry pours money into ad campaigns, much of the climate movement simply doesn’t have the resources to do that work.

Let’s plan for net zero pains and gain

Pressure for Australia to take on a net zero emissions target is rising in the lead-up to the November COP climate conference. Most other developed countries and China have done so. It seems possible that Australia will commit to net zero.

The biggest threat to human health right now? It's not the pandemic

It's tempting to think that if the pandemic is ever over, we'll be safe once more. That, however, would be to ignore the biggest threat to both human health and the planet itself: Climate change.