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...

Keeping with the string of energy news the past few weeks, the Albanese government has committed $4.7 billion to help fund renewable energy infrastructure in NSW. The funding will go towards building transmission lines from the state's renewable zones to the main energy grid.

The goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C is “gasping for breath”, the UN secretary-general has said as he announced a “climate ambition summit” for September. António Guterres said the summit would challenge leaders of governments and businesses to come up with “new, tangible and credible...

A potentially transformational agreement for nature is close to being reached at Cop15 in Montreal, which could bring better protection for Earth’s vital ecosystems such as the Amazon and Congo basin rainforests, big reforms to agriculture and better protection of indigenous territories and rights....

The Albanese government’s legislation capping gas prices and funding consumer rebates to deliver power price relief has passed the Senate, despite the Coalition voting against the proposal during a special sitting of federal parliament. Greenpeace welcomes the energy reforms as a breath of fresh...

Australia’s major banks and superannuation funds are failing to properly assess the damage their investments and financial decisions do to nature or set targets to reverse that damage, according to new analysis. How businesses manage nature-related risk is one of the major items under negotiation...

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will push for a global effort to prevent any new extinctions of wildlife by 2030, warning the world is heading down an “unsustainable” path unless a major international agreement is reached. Plibersek, who will travel to Montreal on Wednesday for the COP15...

The “fate of the entire living world” will be determined at the Cop15 UN biodiversity summit, according to leading scientists. They said the gathering of the world’s nations, which began on Wednesday in Montreal, is “vastly more important than Cop27”, the recent high-profile UN climate meeting. “We...

Environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, is launching a Biodiversity Council, a scientist-led thinktank based at the University of Melbourne. Brendan Wintle, a professor in conservation science at the University of Melbourne, was the director of the Threatened Species Recovery Hub, which gave frank...