The New South Wales environmental watchdog has released a plan to regulate carbon emissions, which will require firms to show how they will hit net zero by 2050 and encourage them to improve. The Climate Change Policy and Action Plan 2023-26 was released today by the Environment Protection...

A toxic, derelict steel tower used by Woodside to produce oil is slowly sinking and risks ending up on the seabed near Western Australia’s Ningaloo Reef after shoddy maintenance delayed its removal for four years.

The “fate of the entire living world” will be determined at the Cop15 UN biodiversity summit, according to leading scientists. They said the gathering of the world’s nations, which began on Wednesday in Montreal, is “vastly more important than Cop27”, the recent high-profile UN climate meeting. “We...

Environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, is launching a Biodiversity Council, a scientist-led thinktank based at the University of Melbourne. Brendan Wintle, a professor in conservation science at the University of Melbourne, was the director of the Threatened Species Recovery Hub, which gave frank...

Countries will meet in Montreal for the Cop15 biodiversity summit this week to work on a new framework agreement to end biodiversity decline. If successful, it should result in the global destruction of nature being halted and reversed with wild areas and habitat for threatened species starting to...

Anthony Albanese warned factories would close unless a new price cap is slapped on gas producers "in the next few weeks" as energy ministers prepare to discuss a significant intervention into the electricity sector to provide relief for households. The government has asked ACCC to review the code...

Following last night's budget, Greenpeace Gas Campaigner, Richard George is calling for an end to the billions of dollars given in fossil fuel subsidies and a windfall tax on gas profits that could be invested into “turbo-charging” the shift towards renewables.

Following allegations of "defeat devices" installed in its diesel vehicles, Toyota has said it "stands by its reporting, monitoring and evaluation standards in relation to the emissions for all its vehicles".

The World Meteorological Organisation has said that the supply of electricity from clean energy sources must double within the next eight years to limit global temperature increase - and mitigate the risk of climate change undermining our energy security and even jeopardising renewable energy...