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Australia signs treaty with climate change impacted Tuvalu

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a new pact with the low-lying island country of Tuvalu, allowing residents facing displacement the ability to resettle in Australia. The agreement comes as Tuvalu's viability is threatened by rising sea levels caused by escalating climate change, with...

Major bank makes a deforestation commitment

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...

Misinformation puts potential wind energy industry at risk

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...

Report reveals extreme weather toll on health

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...

Cyclone Lola reinforces Vanuatu's calls for a Loss & Damage Fund

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.

Fuel efficiency standard needed to incentivise EVs

Some of Australia's most popular car brands have scored poor marks in a report ranking traditional automakers on their climate credentials and progress on delivering low-emission vehicles. Greenpeace Australia Pacific Campaigner Joe Rafalowicz said the report underlined the need for the government...

Australians consumers lead first ever phone amnesty

Australia will lead the first-ever World Phone Amnesty, a global movement to transform mobile phone ownership behaviour, curb carbon emissions, and reduce the number of devices being discarded every year – billions. Approximately 83% of a phone’s carbon emissions come from manufacturing, shipping...

NSW to enshrine net zero targets in law

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.

Immediate changes needed for Australia’s environmental laws

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...

Global warming nearly breached the 1.5 degrees limit

A report released by the EU climate monitor has found that global average temperatures from January through to September this year were 1.4 degrees higher than 1850-1900, flirting dangerously with breaching the 1.5 degrees global warming limit and making climate action more critical than ever...

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