PM Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese faced off in the third and final leaders’ debate last night, with Morrison’s lack of climate action laid bare when pressed on the issue, he claimed his government is “reducing emissions over a long period of time”. 

The Morrison government’s climate change commitments are consistent with more than 3C of global heating, bordering on 4C, which would lead to catastrophic global damage. With Labor’s targets in line with 2C of heating, both major parties’ targets ignore the proven risk of irreversible climate...

Australia’s $4.5 billion Emissions Reduction Fund has failed to cut pollution, is wasting billions of dollars worth of public money, and is even facilitating increased emissions, according to a new report from The Australia Institute. 

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.

PM Scott Morrison is branding Labor’s climate policy forcing big polluters to reduce emissions or offset them quickly a “sneaky carbon tax” as the Coalition’s infighting over its own flimsy net zero commitment rages on. 

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.

Transport emissions rose by more than 12 per cent in the final months of 2021 as lockdowns lifted, according to a new report which called for emissions cuts by replacing fossil fuel energy with renewables, and electrifying households, industry and transport as fast as possible.