As we head into the second week of COP26, Scott Morrison’s back in Australia, whereupon he has promptly disappeared on an impromptu ‘tour of the regions’. But no vanishing act can hide the growing anger at his performance in Glasgow, with criticism flying thick and fast, from major trading partners...

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...

As we head into the COP26 Climate Summit today, we’ve seen weakly-worded climate platitudes from world leaders coming out the preceding G20 conference in Rome, but few new climate commitments. Let’s hope they find their resolve over the next few weeks in Glasgow.

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.

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...