The Nationals have finally agreed to support a net-zero by 2050 target - but their blood price for supporting the deal remains veiled in secrecy. With recent rumblings from David Littleproud and others about carbon capture, it doesn’t take a crystal ball to work out that the price extracted from...

The Morrison Government actively lobbied for the rejection of findings outlining the need for rapid global coal phase out from the next major report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), revealed in documents leaked to Unearthed, Greenpeace’s investigative platform. This...

The PM is desperately trying to assure reluctant National Party members that most of what the Coalition has been saying on the cost of climate action for years is rubbish and that net zero by 2050 is actually a winner for the economy. With the clock rapidly ticking towards the Glasgow, the Morrison...

It’s Tuesday, and we still don’t have a net-zero target. We do, however, have details of the PM’s “net zero plan”, courtesy of The Australian, and it includes a projected increase in gas exports. A net-zero plan that involves extracting and exporting even more dangerous, climate-destroying fossil...

The National Party, behaving more like a lobby group than a party of government, has set its terms for a net-zero target - no stronger 2030 emissions reduction target and for coal to continue into the 2050s. Any net-zero target set with these conditions would have exactly zero effect in tackling...

State government emissions reductions commitments have put Australia within reach of meeting global expectations, but new analysis reveals it will fall short unless the Morrison government steps up. Speaking of state commitments, Tasmania has announced it will mandate a target for net zero...

Seventy-five percent of Australians are concerned about the threat of climate change and almost seven in ten want the Morrison Government to commit to achieving net zero emissions, according to The Australia Institute’s latest annual survey of voter sentiment on climate. 

As PM Scott Morrison continues to dither on net zero, beset by his troublesome junior partners in the Coalition, new polling shows almost 70% of Australians want the government to set a higher 2030 emissions reduction target.They’re joined by none other than Prince Charles, who has issued a stern...

Prince Charles has lended his voice to the growing chorus calling on Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to attend the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in a few weeks’ time. The Prince appeared taken aback when told that Morrison said he was unlikely to attend COP because he had already spent a...

As Australia inches forward towards a net-zero emissions target, the news is awash with statements from everyone from the Business Council of Australia through to News Corp lining up behind net-zero by 2050.