A major new report from the Grattan Institute today calls for a “future fund” to address escalating emissions from industrial sites, which have jumped 24% since 2005.

On the day Origin Energy lost more than $2.3 billion, the company's CEO has declared that baseload coal is over and flagged plans to regularly switch off generating units at the largest coal burning power station in the country for extended periods in an attempt to remain profitable amid a flood of...

In today’s news, the former UN Secretary-General has called out the Morrison Government’s climate inaction and calls on the PM to at least halve Australia’s emissions by 2030 and commit to net zero by 2050 to help prevent further climate chaos.

In today’s news, Australia’s persistent climate inaction under Coalition governments has been called out by the former UN Secretary-General, who has warned of international punishments for failing to take action to limit global heating.

This morning a Melbourne teenager has announced that he is running for the board of AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, in a bid to push the energy giant to replace its coal burning power stations with renewables by 2030.Offshore gas drilling is threatening on of the country’s most beloved...

In today’s news, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, AGL, has posted a more than $2 billion loss as the rise of renewable energy shakes up the market and plunders the profit margins of coal power producers. And the reality may be finally sinking in at AGL with the embattled company’s CEO calling...

In today’s news, Australia’s biggest energy user, the Tomago aluminium smelter in the Hunter Valley, has announced plans to switch to almost 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030, foreshadowing an early closure for AGL’s Bayswater coal burning power station, which counts Tomago as its biggest...

Today’s news is - as it should be - dominated by the UN IPCC climate report, which sets out in the starkest terms, what awaits the world if we don’t make deep, rapid cuts to greenhouse gas emissions - and it is not looking good, with the Pacific facing some of the worst, and closest impacts. 

On the verge of release of the UN IPCC climate report, which maps out scenarios for our climate future, Australia’s appalling climate track record is once again in the spotlight, with reports on the danger Australia’s emissions pose to the Pacific, and a report card ranking our energy transition...

In today’s news, despite receiving almost half a billion dollars in dubious circumstances only three years ago, the privately-run Great Barrier Reef Foundation also pocketed more than $350,000 in jobkeeper payments.