In today’s news, emerging and innovative energy companies – including Tesla – have called on Australian energy ministers and the Energy Security Board to abandon a proposal to financially prop up coal and gas generators.

New polling suggests that voters in “Liberal heartland” electorates are more worried about climate change than Covid-19 - whether they do as NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean has suggested and express their fears at the ballot box at the next Federal election remains to be seen.Big polluting...

A major new report from the Grattan Institute today calls for a “future fund” to address escalating emissions from industrial sites, which have jumped 24% since 2005.

On the day Origin Energy lost more than $2.3 billion, the company's CEO has declared that baseload coal is over and flagged plans to regularly switch off generating units at the largest coal burning power station in the country for extended periods in an attempt to remain profitable amid a flood of...

In today’s news, the former UN Secretary-General has called out the Morrison Government’s climate inaction and calls on the PM to at least halve Australia’s emissions by 2030 and commit to net zero by 2050 to help prevent further climate chaos.

In today’s news, Australia’s persistent climate inaction under Coalition governments has been called out by the former UN Secretary-General, who has warned of international punishments for failing to take action to limit global heating.

Revolt stirs in the Liberal ranks (again), as NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean takes a swipe at his Federal colleagues for their continued uselessness on climate change.In the wake of the IPCC report, media focus has shifted to the business sector and how it can manage, and capitalise on, the...

In today’s news, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, AGL, has posted a more than $2 billion loss as the rise of renewable energy shakes up the market and plunders the profit margins of coal power producers. And the reality may be finally sinking in at AGL with the embattled company’s CEO calling...

In today’s news, Australia’s biggest energy user, the Tomago aluminium smelter in the Hunter Valley, has announced plans to switch to almost 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030, foreshadowing an early closure for AGL’s Bayswater coal burning power station, which counts Tomago as its biggest...

In today’s news, with the IPCC’s grim warnings still ringing in our ears like an alarm, the focus now shifts to the Morrison Government. But rather than take his own advice when it comes to covid and be guided by the experts, Morrison has again refused to take the action needed to protect...