Push to shelve Woodside’s dirty North West Shelf

Greenpeace is among a record number of individuals and organisations lodging appeals against the WA EPA’s recommendation to extend Woodside’s dirty North West Shelf gas processing plant until 2070 - a move that threatens to blow Australia’s carbon budget. 

In a stark reminder of the deadly heat facing Australia and the world, a severe heatwave in Western Europe saw UK temperatures exceed 40C for the first time on record - melting runways, buckling railways, and destroying houses and cars. 

And Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed his government’s climate bill, which enshrines the 43 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 and net zero by 2050 targets, will be introduced when the new parliament opens next week.

Greenpeace appeals North West Shelf extension

Greenpeace Australia Pacific is appealing the decision to extend the life of Woodside’s North West Shelf gas processing facility on the grounds that the EPA has failed to properly consider the climate and environment impacts of extending the gas facility for a further 50 years.

As Europe burns, the world’s climate plan, such as it is, unravels

Europe’s skyrocketing temperatures, the fires, collapsed glaciers, closed schools, buckled train tracks and melted runways have offered us a terrifying glimpse of life in a world that is now 1.1 degrees warmer than it was at the start of the industrial era.

Climate change top of the agenda as Labor kick-starts new parliament with four bills

Anthony Albanese will map out his government’s priorities when the new parliament sits next week, introducing four bills including seeking to enshrine a 2030 emissions reduction target.

‘Getting away with too much’: AEMO intervenes in gas market to stave off energy crisis

While the large majority of Australia’s gas is exported for profit, the energy market operator has intervened to order Queensland producers to pipe gas south.

The case for a global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty - from an island nation in peril

The case is increasingly urgent for a mechanism to address the supply side of the problem, in the form of a global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty.

Fracking watchdog says NT still lacking federal government commitment on Beetaloo Basin emissions promise

An NT government promise to ensure all greenhouse gas emissions from fracking the Beetaloo Basin will be offset is in doubt, according to a government-appointed policy watchdog.