The NSW government’s move to legislate a ban on offshore gas drilling will help protect oceans and marine life in NSW waters from destructive drilling, seismic blasting, and toxic gas spills.

Queensland is expected to swelter through heatwave conditions today. Energy Minister Mick de Brenni says there will be enough electricity supply to “keep the lights on” but warns the system will be “tight”.

Welcome back to The Canopy 2023! We’ve kicked off the new year with some changes to Australia’s environmental policies, including new pollution caps - you can read our statement on that development here. This week, concerns are being raised about Australia’s warming oceans and rate of...

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will push for a global effort to prevent any new extinctions of wildlife by 2030, warning the world is heading down an “unsustainable” path unless a major international agreement is reached. Plibersek, who will travel to Montreal on Wednesday for the COP15...

IThe island nation Vanuatu and 17 other countries on Wednesday published a draft resolution asking the world's top court to clarify what responsibilities governments around the world have to protect future generations from climate change. The resolution, which the United Nations General Assembly is...

Exhausted, hungry and very-much-over-it negotiators, government officials and climate campaigners (including our brilliant team from Greenpeace Australia Pacific) are now leaving the Egyptian resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, after COP27 has come to a close.

Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, has been asked to take over struggling summit negotiations over how to fund climate financing for poor countries at Cop27 in Egypt. It came on a day in which Australia’s climate change minister was effusively praised by the US climate envoy, John...

AGL’s annual general meeting has seen a positive change in the company’s leadership for the sake of renewable energy, with billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes’ four independent director candidates all being appointed to the AGL board.

The Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, will use his major address at the Cop27 UN summit in Egypt to call out the World Bank for failing to address the climate crisis, and join calls for the international financial system to be reshaped. According to an advance copy of the speech...

At COP27, the European Union’s climate chief has challenged the Albanese government to dig deeper into its coffers to compensate for a growing shortfall of funding from the world’s wealthiest nations to combat the climate crisis, however Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says that it’s...