Greens leader Adam Bandt will throw down the gauntlet to the Federal Government in a speech to be given to the Smart Energy Council today, warning of “a fight over new coal and gas this year”. Bandt is threatening to block enabling legislation for the government’s key climate policy, the safeguard...

Scientists have identified a 110 million hectare patch of ocean suitable for seaweed cultivation in Indonesia and Australia. The study, published in Nature Sustainability, looked at 34 seaweed species and where they could feasibly grow. Researchers suggest cuts to methane emissions from using...

The Western Australia government announced plans yesterday to legislate an emissions target of net-zero by 2050. Climate Action Minister Reece Whitby will introduce a bill to parliament later this year, which will also set interim targets every five years. However, private sector polluters will not...

Environment ministers’ decisions across 15 years to either wave through projects or impose stricter conditions to protect threatened species made no difference to the amount of habitat destroyed, according to a new study. 

Resources Minister Madeleine King has urged mining and gas companies to get behind the Indigenous Voice to parliament, saying they have a unique responsibility to correct the wrongs of the past. King said the resources sector had made “extraordinary and devastating mistakes” in their interactions...

The New South Wales environmental watchdog has released a plan to regulate carbon emissions, which will require firms to show how they will hit net zero by 2050 and encourage them to improve. The Climate Change Policy and Action Plan 2023-26 was released today by the Environment Protection...

A toxic, derelict steel tower used by Woodside to produce oil is slowly sinking and risks ending up on the seabed near Western Australia’s Ningaloo Reef after shoddy maintenance delayed its removal for four years.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was carried away and detained by police in the German village of Lutzerath. She and other demonstrators had been blocking the front of a coal mine to oppose its expansion and didn’t leave after the police had asked them to.

Scientists have warned that early forecasts suggest the El Niño weather phenomenon will return later in 2023, exacerbating extreme weather around the globe and making it “very likely” the world will exceed 1.5C of warming. 

Welcome back to The Canopy 2023! We’ve kicked off the new year with some changes to Australia’s environmental policies, including new pollution caps - you can read our statement on that development here. This week, concerns are being raised about Australia’s warming oceans and rate of...