Paris Agreement
Brazil cancels hosting climate change summit
Brazil has pulled out of hosting next year's UN global summit on climate change, the latest setback for the Paris Agreement.
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Yes, Prime Minister, I'm striking from school: consider it a climate lesson
A 15-year-old Swedish girl started a global movement. Here's why I'm joining it along with thousands of other students who care about the planet's future.
- by Veronica Hester
Primary school
'We'll be voting soon': Students take on PM over climate change
Canberra students skipped school to deliver their climate change message on a sodden day at Parliament House.
- by Chloe Livadeas
USA
Countries fail Paris promises to cut carbon emissions: report
The gap between countries' Paris promises and emissions levels is even larger than previously believed.
- by Chris Mooney
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Mark McGowan
Protest movement swells as Premier green-lights fracking
Premier Mark McGowan has lifted the moratorium on fracking in the Kimberley, Pilbara and the Mid West.
- by Emma Young & Nathan Hondros
Ben Wyatt
WA must join other states in climate action as federals falter: Greens
The government ruling out a WA-based climate and energy policy in the wake of federal failure drew attack from the Greens.
- by Emma Young
USA
Major US climate report says more epic disasters coming
The US federal government has released a long-awaited report with an unmistakable message: extreme weather disasters are worsening because of global warming.
- by Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney
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How about a Robin Hood carbon tax to combat climate change?
Two public-spirited citizens have come up with a plan for a $50 per tonne carbon tax which would take from the rich and give to the poor.
- by Ross Gittins
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The forsaken children strike back: 21 young people sue to save planet
By their failure to act on climate change, the Trump administration and other governments are condemning future generations to catastrophe, but a brave group of children is fighting back, writes the winner of both the Nobel Prize and the Sydney Peace Prize.
- by Joseph Stiglitz
Mark McGowan
Heavyweights sound off as WA fracking inquiry enters doomsday
"WA has such huge potential in renewable energy which is now cheaper than gas and can be exported."
- by Emma Young
Paris Agreement
Ban Ki-moon 'deeply concerned' by rise in xenophobia, nationalism
In a wide-ranging interview, the former UN Secretary-General says any move by Australia to abandon the Paris agreement would be "politically short-sighted".
- by Ruth Williams