The Investor Group on Climate Change has released its policy priorities report for 2022-2025, outlining key areas for reform that would align Australia’s emissions target to the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5C and ensure the country was able to manage an “orderly” retreat from coal.

The president of the Pacific island of Vanuatu has become the first head of state to make a call for a global treaty to phase out the use of fossil fuels, warning of the "debilitating consequences" of climate change.

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. 

New research by the Australian National University’s Professor Andrew Macintosh has identified “systemic flaws” with the way regulators are handing out carbon credits to Australian businesses, calling the system a “fraud on the environment”. 

Origin has announced it is pulling out of new gas exploration, including selling its interest in the Beetaloo Basin project - a sign of the accelerating clean energy transition, but concrete steps are needed to shift away from fossil fuels in the short to medium term. 

RepuTex, the company that helped draft Labor’s climate policy before the election is warning the Albanese government that it shouldn’t reward big polluters with new carbon credits that do not equate to a direct environmental improvement. According to RepuTex, half of Australia’s 215 biggest carbon...

Two former Pacific Island presidents have called out the Albanese government’s hopes to co-host a UN climate summit, questioning how serious the new Australian government is about tackling global warming when new coal and gas projects are allowed to be approved on its shores.

Responsible investing is on the rise, with more than $1.5 trillion of assets in Australia being managed according to ESG principles - up from $1.28 trillion in 2020. 

Toyota has placed last in a ranking of car makers’ decarbonisation efforts as a new Greenpeace Australia Pacific report exposes the company’s track record of lobbying against measures to reduce climate pollution from vehicles, greenwashing, and advocacy for fossil-fuelled hybrid vehicles.

Labor’s climate change bill is poised to pass the upper house today after the government agreed to independent senator David Pocock’s proposals to improve accountability and transparency.