The UK has released a first draft of the UN climate summit text, which calls on all nations to accelerate the phase out of coal and urges those that failed to bring stronger 2030 targets to COP26 to do so by the end of 2022.

Once again Australia has had a very special honour bestowed upon it - the honour of being ranked dead last in the world on climate action, with a new report from Climate Action Tracker, placing Australia’s climate efforts behind countries like Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Brazil.

Australian households and small businesses are doing the heavy lifting on net zero, with 3 million solar systems now installed following record installation levels in 2019 and 2020. 

The future of the Great Barrier Reef hangs in the balance due to global warming, with only 2 per cent of the entire reef escaping bleaching in the past 30 years.

Australia has been accused of “greenwashing” its aid to the Pacific, with a new report from Greenpeace Australia Pacific finding that fewer than one-quarter of all aid projects in 2018 and 2019 that the Australian government labelled “significantly focused” on climate adaptation made any mention of...

Australia has snubbed one of the key global actions to come out of the COP26 climate summit by bowing out of an international pledge led by the US and Europe to reduce methane emissions.The world is moving — slowly — to halt deforestation, with leaders representing land which is home to more than...

For the next two weeks we’ll be bringing you all the news from the COP26 Summit, which has opened with a sternly worded address by The Queen telling world leaders to pull up their socks and show leadership on climate change.Scott Morrison used his address to COP today not to call for greater...

Following in the footsteps of his boss’ stunt parading a lump of coal around parliament in 2017, Angus Taylor will be out of step on the global stage as he foreshadows using COP26 to promote Australia as a good place to invest in fossil fuel projects. It appears the Morrison government has a reason...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is resisting pressure to release the modelling underpinning his government’s plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, as it’s revealed the Federal Treasury has not modelled the effects of climate change and emissions reductions on the nation’s economy for years. The...

After a lengthy public spat, the Morrison Government has declared a ceasefire in the war with itself and announced it will take a pledge of net-zero emissions by 2050 to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.