World on ‘catastrophic pathway’ to hotter future

In today’s news, a new report by the UN finds that even if all the national commitments submitted by signatories of the Paris climate accord were honoured emissions would still rise nearly 16 per cent by 2030 when they need to fall by around 75 per cent.

The Morrison Government has proposed to dump recovery plans for almost 200 species and ecosystems ‘at risk’ including Tasmanian devils, whale sharks and forests.

And global banking giant HSBC is being challenged by a 17-year-old student for promoting products supporting the Great Barrier Reef, while funding fossil fuel operations, including Adani’s Carmichael coal mine, that threaten to kill it by stoking climate change.

Climate pledges put world on ‘catastrophic pathway’ to hotter future, UN says

A new report shows the world is on a “catastrophic pathway” toward a hotter future unless governments make more ambitious pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the United Nations says.

Morrison government wants to ditch recovery plans for ‘at risk’ species including devils, whale sharks

Tasmanian devils, whale sharks and threatened forests in NSW and Victoria are among almost 200 species and ecosystems that will no longer require recovery plans but merely conservation advice, according to changes proposed by the federal environment department.

Morrison’s coal lump supplier, former advisor, appointed Australian OECD ambassador

Advisor to prime minister Scott Morrison and former chief executive of the Minerals Council of Australia – who gave Morrison the lump of coal subsequently brandished in parliament – has been appointed as Australia’s new ambassador to the OECD.

Student claims HSBC’s Great Barrier Reef ad a ‘blatant greenwash’

Global banking giant HSBC is being challenged by a 17-year-old student for promoting products supporting the Great Barrier Reef, while funding fossil fuel operations, including Adani’s Carmichael coal mine, that threaten to kill it by stoking climate change.

Banks are two-faced when it comes to climate action: Market Forces

The major banks lent $835 million to expansionary fossil fuel projects in 2020, which climate action group Market Forces says is inconsistent with their pledges to support the economic transition to net zero emissions by 2050.