Scientists have warned that the probability of one of the next five years surpassing the 1.5 degrees limit is now 50 per cent.

AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, faces heat over its controversial demerger plans, described as a ‘turd rolled in glitter’. The demerger documents show that if the company splits, both the retail and generation arms will breach Paris climate targets.

AGL’s demerger proposal is said to be “hanging by a thread” after Mike Cannon-Brooke announced that recent share purchases made him AGL’s largest shareholder and he plans to use that power to vote down the coal company’s plans to split.

The breakdown at AGL’s ageing and unreliable Loy Yang coal burning power station in Victoria will eat into the mega-polluter’s profits to the tune of up to $70 million and potentially jeopardise the company’s demerger plans.

The stalling of coal closure under the guise of cost and reliability has been further proven a fallacy, with the energy market operator revealing wholesale electricity prices soared 141 per cent in the first quarter compared to last year due to coal plant outages and coal market bids.

The Coalition’s commitment to its flimsy “plan” to get Australia to net-zero emissions by 2050 is in question after members of the Nats described the target as “flexible” and “non-binding” with one going so far as to call the goal “dead”.

The Greens have injected a new idea into the “same old” of this election campaign, proposing that coal and gas companies should be able to sued for the damage caused by the recent flood crisis.

The failure and unreliability of coal power have been laid bare as AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, suffered an outage at its Loy Yang A coal-burning power station which could last through Victoria’s winter. 

Modelling commissioned by the Morrison government reveals the federal government’s debts could double if it fails to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement. 

Let’s start with the good news - a new Clean Energy Council report shows that renewables have had another record year, despite a slow-down in investment, which has at least partially been driven by unsupportive Federal energy policy. The Wesfarmers conglomerate has inked a deal on a massive...