National Australia Bank is putting its big emissions customers on notice that they will need to have climate transition plans in place in two years' time. NAB will initially focus on major customers in the fossil fuel sector seeking new or renewed corporate lending or project finance.

The world's top management consultancy McKinsey & Company is using its position as a key advisor to the UN's COP28 climate talks to push the interests of its big oil and gas clients, undermining efforts to end the use of the fossil fuels driving global warming, according to multiple sources and...

Westpac has become the first big Australian bank to set a zero-deforestation target for loans to beef, dairy and sheep farmers with a commitment to no further conversion of natural forests to agricultural use from the end of 2025. The bank’s climate report also says it will no longer directly...

A wave of political rhetoric and alleged misinformation around the impacts of offshore wind farms on whales has led to fears that a potential wind energy industry off the coast of the Illawarra and Hunter regions could be derailed before it properly begins. Greenpeace says that exploration for and...

A new report has found that heat was by far the leading cause of weather-related injury for every state and territory except Tasmania across the past decade. This finding has added to the urgent need for climate action to help protect the most vulnerable Australians in the face of increasingly...

Although Vanuatu’s Cyclone Lola has been downgraded from category five yesterday to category three this morning, the damage is expected to be extensive with Vanuatu’s Climate Change and Disaster Management Minister calling for the world to act and set up a loss and damage fund.

In a new push to stop Santos’ monster Barossa gas project, six Tiwi Island elders have applied to Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to stop the installation of a critical gas pipeline due to start within days. The elders want Minister Plibersek to declare emergency protection for an area they...

In a landmark ruling, Australia’s High Court has ditched Victoria’s controversial tax on electric and hybrid vehicles in finding that it was unconstitutional. This finding has set a precedent that will stop other states from introducing similar taxes that would slow the transition and hinder...

New South Wales is set to enshrine its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets of 50% by 2030 and net zero by 2050 into law. An independent advisory panel will be created to monitor the state’s progress.

Climate scientists and environmental activists are calling for an immediate change to Australia’s environmental laws, following a Federal Court decision that means that the Federal government can now ignore the risk posed by fossil fuel projects to protected plants, animals and places whilst...