Origin has announced it is pulling out of new gas exploration, including selling its interest in the Beetaloo Basin project - a sign of the accelerating clean energy transition, but concrete steps are needed to shift away from fossil fuels in the short to medium term. 

Australia is only funding one-tenth of its fair share of climate finance globally, according to a new Oxfam and ActionAid report which calls on the country to immediately increase its climate finance commitments from $400 million to $3 billion ahead of COP27 in November. 

Two former Pacific Island presidents have called out the Albanese government’s hopes to co-host a UN climate summit, questioning how serious the new Australian government is about tackling global warming when new coal and gas projects are allowed to be approved on its shores.

Australia’s Energy Market Operator has warned that NSW, SA and Victoria could struggle to keep the lights on unless there is a massive investment in power generation, storage and transmission over the next decade.

The odds of there being a third sodden summer in a row have shortened now the Bureau of Meteorology has declared a La Niña alert.

A two-day hearing aimed at stopping Woodside’s destructive Scarborough gas project is expected to get underway in WA today with a conservation group arguing the decision to approve the project is unlawful because pollution and environmental harm from greenhouse gas emissions was not properly...

The new Parliament will sit for the first time today with the government expected to pass its proposed climate legislation after strengthening the bill to ensure that the 43 per cent emissions reduction target cannot be weakened.

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. 

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.

Our new federal environment minister will today release a sweeping report on the state of the environment that will show it is in bad shape and getting worse because of factors including climate change, habitat loss, invasive species, mining and pollution. No wonder the previous government didn’t...