As Australia’s climate sits just shy of 1.5 degrees of warming since records began in 1910, a new report from CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology has found flash flooding is emerging as a new climate threat. Cloudbursts of increasing intense rainfall are more likely as warming continues, since the...

Australia's capital is winning the clean transport race in the country, with the ACT a clear frontrunner in a new study by the Climate Council, followed by New South Wales. But three regions have been issued warnings to improve their policies, with Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern...

Electric vehicles will become more affordable and government fleets will go green after members of the crossbench struck a deal to pass a Labor bill to phase out public support for hybrid vehicles. This will help make EVs cheaper in Australia, and also more widely available on the second-hand...

For decades, "natural gas" has sold itself to families as the fastest, most-efficient way to cook. But now there's a battle for your kitchen stove, and a push to get you to embrace electric for your health and for the planet. A coalition of chefs, doctors, climate scientists and real estate...

The first draft of COP27 text is published, and to quote The Guardian “this early draft of a potential cover decision for the Cop27 UN climate summit in Egypt, now entering its final days, is that it is a monster.” In this draft it would keep a target to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius...

Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has been asked to take over struggling summit negotiations over how to fund climate financing for poor countries at Cop27 in Egypt. It came on a day in which Australia’s climate change minister was effusively praised by the US climate envoy, John...

AGL’s annual general meeting has seen a positive change in the company’s leadership for the sake of renewable energy, with billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes’ four independent director candidates all being appointed to the AGL board.

The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, will use his major address at the Cop27 UN summit in Egypt to call out the World Bank for failing to address the climate crisis, and join calls for the international financial system to be reshaped. According to an advance copy of the speech...

At COP27, the European Union’s climate chief has challenged the Albanese government to dig deeper into its coffers to compensate for a growing shortfall of funding from the world’s wealthiest nations to combat the climate crisis, however Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says that it’s...

Yesterday, we published our report that showed that carmakers worldwide, including Australians' most trusted brand Toyota, are on track to sell an estimated 400 million more diesel and petrol vehicles than is feasible to keep global heating under 1.5°C. The Guardian in Australia covered the report:...