Gas giant Santos has been granted permission to resume laying an underwater pipeline for its $5.7 billion Barossa gas project in the Timor Sea, north of Darwin. This ruling comes following months of legal arguments from Tiwi Islanders that Santos' cultural heritage survey had not properly addressed...

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A draft deal to cut global fossil fuel production is “grossly insufficient” and “incoherent” and will not stop the world from facing dangerous climate breakdown, according to delegates at the UN’s Cop28 summit. Some countries, including Samoa and Pacific Island states, are despairing...

Nearly 200 countries have convened in majlis – a traditional meeting akin to an elders’ conference in the United Arab Emirates – in an attempt to reach consensus on various deadlocks amongst countries at COP, including on whether fossil fuels should be phased out or phased down. Australian climate...

Pressure is mounting near the end of the first week of the UN negotiations hosted by the oil-rich UAE, with Europe's climate monitor confirming that 2023 will be the hottest year in recorded history. The fate of oil, gas and coal -- the main drivers of human-caused planet heating -- has been the...

NSW to have electric vehicle chargers every 5km in metro areas, 100km on highways

Woodside Energy has once again been given the all-clear to carry out seismic testing for its massive Scarborough project off the Pilbara coast after an earlier approval was ruled invalid by the Federal Court. Greenpeace Australia Pacific senior campaigner Sophie McNeill says the organisation is...

RACGP backs duty of care bill for climate change harms. Australia’s largest representative body for GPs has thrown its support behind a duty of care bill requiring the Federal Government to protect young people from climate change harms in decision-making.

The federal government is massively expanding a taxpayer-funded scheme to subsidise and underwrite new renewable energy projects, in an admission that Australia is not currently on track to reach its 2030 target for the power grid.

New polling from the Climate Council has revealed that more than two-thirds of Australians are ditching the car more often to avoid paying for soaring fuel costs. Of the 1,150 Australians surveyed nationally, more than half feel that the Federal government’s long-awaited fuel efficiency standard...

Westpac has become the first big Australian bank to set a zero-deforestation target for loans to beef, dairy and sheep farmers with a commitment to no further conversion of natural forests to agricultural use from the end of 2025. The bank’s climate report also says it will no longer directly...