Australia’s parliament has passed the country’s most significant emissions reduction legislation in more than a decade after the government won backing from Greens and independent MPs for a plan to deal with pollution from major industrial sites.

In a monumental win for climate justice, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) overnight unanimously moved to refer a Vanuatu-led resolution on the human rights impacts of climate change to the world’s highest court - the International Court of Justice. 

A key piece of Labor's climate legislation is likely to pass parliament, after it struck a compromise deal with the Greens over new coal and gas. The Greens were initially calling for no new coal or gas projects to be included in the Safeguard Mechanism bill, however backed the policy following a...

Saturday’s NSW state election saw the Liberal-National Coalition’s twelve-year run of governing NSW finally overturned by Labor. Chris Minns has been elected as state’s new premier, with the ALP Government on track to win a majority in the lower house. True to form, the oil and gas lobby has...

Samoa’s prime minister has issued a desperate plea for action, calling for the world to save the people of the Pacific from climate disaster. The plea comes on the eve of a landmark report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is expected to deliver a scientific “final warning” on...

Western Australia's environmental watchdog has raised concerns Woodside doesn't plan to reduce emissions fast enough at its Pluto gas facility on the Burrup Peninsula, while calling for an urgent inquiry to ensure the facility’s emissions don’t accelerate the weathering of World-Heritage-nominated...

The government’s carbon-neutral certification scheme Climate Active has come under fire from critics, who claim the body is engaging in “greenwashing” - providing environmentally friendly cover for polluting industries to carry on with business as usual, while giving the impression they're taking...

Australian companies have been ranked for the first time on how clean their vehicle fleets are, with Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s Electrify Fleets Rankings revealing IKEA has assembled the greenest fleet while Avis, Myer, David Jones, and JB Hi-Fi fall to the bottom of the pack. 

The Greens have used a parliamentary report to make clear that a key Labor climate policy – revamping the safeguard mechanism – will fail unless the Albanese government agrees to changes its plan. The Greens say the changes to the safeguard should not be introduced in their current form “given the...