Labor will today announce an additional $194 million over four years to protect the Great Barrier Reef, with the funding to include reducing plastic pollution and installing real time sensors to study changes in temperature. But the party’s emissions reduction target of 43 per cent by 2030 fails to...

PM Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese faced off in the third and final leaders’ debate last night, with Morrison’s lack of climate action laid bare when pressed on the issue, he claimed his government is “reducing emissions over a long period of time”. 

AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, faces heat over its controversial demerger plans, described as a ‘turd rolled in glitter’. The demerger documents show that if the company splits, both the retail and generation arms will breach Paris climate targets.

The Morrison government’s climate change commitments are consistent with more than 3C of global heating, bordering on 4C, which would lead to catastrophic global damage. With Labor’s targets in line with 2C of heating, both major parties’ targets ignore the proven risk of irreversible climate...

Australia’s $4.5 billion Emissions Reduction Fund has failed to cut pollution, is wasting billions of dollars worth of public money, and is even facilitating increased emissions, according to a new report from The Australia Institute. 

The breakdown at AGL’s ageing and unreliable Loy Yang coal burning power station in Victoria will eat into the mega-polluter’s profits to the tune of up to $70 million and potentially jeopardise the company’s demerger plans.

The lack of coherent Federal clean energy policy is beginning to impact investment, with investors citing significant uncertainty about the Morrison government’s policy direction as a “dead weight”.

PM Scott Morrison is branding Labor’s climate policy forcing big polluters to reduce emissions or offset them quickly a “sneaky carbon tax” as the Coalition’s infighting over its own flimsy net zero commitment rages on. 

The Coalition’s commitment to its flimsy “plan” to get Australia to net-zero emissions by 2050 is in question after members of the Nats described the target as “flexible” and “non-binding” with one going so far as to call the goal “dead”.

The Greens have injected a new idea into the “same old” of this election campaign, proposing that coal and gas companies should be able to sued for the damage caused by the recent flood crisis.