Keeping with the string of energy news the past few weeks, the Albanese government has committed $4.7 billion to help fund renewable energy infrastructure in NSW. The funding will go towards building transmission lines from the state's renewable zones to the main energy grid.

Anthony Albanese warned factories would close unless a new price cap is slapped on gas producers "in the next few weeks" as energy ministers prepare to discuss a significant intervention into the electricity sector to provide relief for households. The government has asked ACCC to review the code...

The campaign to take the human rights impacts of climate change to the world’s highest court has sailed into New York as the UN General Assembly high-level talks take place this week, with Pacific activists on the ground building momentum and global attention. 

The new Parliament will sit for the first time today with the government expected to pass its proposed climate legislation after strengthening the bill to ensure that the 43 per cent emissions reduction target cannot be weakened.

The US is singling out countries that failed to lift their climate targets at last year’s COP26 summit in Glasgow, urging Australia to increase its Abbott era, 2030 emission reduction pledge this year to help prevent further destruction.

The first study to quantify the impact of pledges made before and during COP26 has concluded there is a 50 per cent chance of keeping warming below 1.9 or 2 degrees by the end of the century, while new emissions cuts are needed to limit increases to 1.5 degrees.

New South Wales is in the midst of a second major weather event within weeks, a sounding alarm that action on climate change is needed right now. But Australian politicians are preoccupied with the cost and logistics of potentially hosting the UN climate summit.

UN boss Antonio Guterres has warned the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees is in “intensive care” and laid the blame at the feet of wealthy nations, singling out Australia for its poor emissions reduction target. 

The NSW Independent Planning Commission has heard that an extension to the Narrabri coal mine would result in more scope 1 emissions than any other coal mine in Australia.

A diplomat hailed as one of the author’s of the Paris Agreement has expressed her disappointment that Australian PM Scott Morrison “walked back” elements of Australia’s Glasgow climate commitments before the “ink was dry on the paper”.