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Labor threatens to dump climate bill

Parliament is set to debate the Albanese government’s climate bill after the signature bill and supporting legislation was introduced yesterday. But Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has also threatened the government will walk away from the legislation if it can't find broader support for the...

Climate change to triple extreme weather damage bill

If you think the last year has been particularly disaster-heavy, the CSIRO’s megatrends report makes for very grim reading with the experts forecasting that climate change will triple the cost of extreme weather events over the next 30 years.

Push to shelve Woodside’s dirty North West Shelf

Greenpeace is among a record number of individuals and organisations lodging appeals against the WA EPA’s recommendation to extend Woodside’s dirty North West Shelf gas processing plant until 2070 - a move that threatens to blow Australia’s carbon budget. 

'No new coal and gas must be first step to reining in climate crisis'

The day after the State of the Environment report painted a damning picture of ecological destruction and neglect, Greens Leader Adam Bandt will call for a moratorium on new coal and gas projects in a bid to stop exacerbating the climate crisis as an urgent first step.

‘Egoism’ holding up global deal to protect oceans, says UN chief

As representatives of more than 120 countries gather in Lisbon for the UN’s Ocean Conference, UN chief Antonio Guterres said some countries don’t accept that the world's oceans belong to everyone and "egoism" is holding up a global agreement to protect them. 

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