In the wake of COP26, everyone’s talking about coal. World leaders say the Glasgow Climate Pact has sounded coal’s death knell, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison is sticking to his dirty coal guns despite all evidence that coal’s on the way out, including falling share prices.The newly launched...

COP26 enters its final day, with UN chief Antonio Guterres declaring the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees is “on life support” as countries clash over fossil fuels, a financial compensation scheme, and the depth of emissions cuts this decade. Prime Minister Scott Morrison seems to...

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.

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 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...

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...

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.

Today is the day Australia gets a net-zero target, after Cabinet met last night to discuss details. What these details mean in terms of impact on reducing Australia’s emissions remain to be seen. What we know so far is that Resources Minister Keith Pitt will return to Cabinet, and that there will...

The Nationals have finally agreed to support a net-zero by 2050 target - but their blood price for supporting the deal remains veiled in secrecy. With recent rumblings from David Littleproud and others about carbon capture, it doesn’t take a crystal ball to work out that the price extracted from...