Former US vice president Al Gore has criticised the Morrison government for failing to increase Australia’s 2030 emissions reduction target and warned coal workers to be sceptical about “hollow words” from politicians.  

The dust has settled on COP26, and as delegates leave Glasgow the real work begins: putting the agreements into action. World leaders yesterday agreed to a watered-down, but significant milestone: for the first time in 26 years of climate summits, the Glasgow Climate Pact includes references to...

Once again Australia has had a very special honour bestowed upon it - the honour of being ranked dead last in the world on climate action, with a new report from Climate Action Tracker, placing Australia’s climate efforts behind countries like Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Brazil.

Australian households and small businesses are doing the heavy lifting on net zero, with 3 million solar systems now installed following record installation levels in 2019 and 2020. 

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...