Environment
Climate change
Climate change is already here: major scientific report
Australia is already experiencing global warming and the future holds more extreme fire seasons and “big weather” events.
- by Miki Perkins
Latest
Victoria plugs in record number of renewable energy generators
A record number of large-scale renewable energy generators have been connected to the grid or commenced in Victoria in the past year, more than in any other state in the national energy market.
- by Miki Perkins
Opinion
Renewables
When your supermarket's setting a green energy target, you know it means business
Australia's sixth biggest electricity user, Woolworths, has joined other corporations in a commitment to run on 100 per cent renewable power by 2025. Our federal government needs to follow their lead, writes the chief executive of Greenpeace Australia Pacific.
- by David Ritter
Opinion
Joe Biden
Australia suddenly isolated in the new global climate
Four years of Trump’s climate denialism has given Australia ample cover for its own climate inaction.
- by Steven Hamilton
Opinion
Global warming
Australia the outlier in Biden's brave new zero-emissions world
Australia will be left behind as its allies take steps towards a greener, emissions-free future, led by the newly elected President.
- by Bob Carr
Opinion
Renewables
Like water for electricity, we can go with the flow for cleaner energy
The solutions for a 100 per cent renewable economy are under our noses.
- by Elizabeth Farrelly
Australian doctors accuse government of failing on climate change
A group of Australian doctors have accused Energy Minister Angus Taylor of harming Australians' health by not taking enough action on climate change.
- by Nick O'Malley
How Joe Biden and a global pandemic might overturn climate politics
Many reforms Biden proposes are not centred on climate change but on associated jobs, infrastructure and innovation support needed to confront the crisis.
- by Nick O'Malley
Opinion
Renewables
Net-zero emissions drive puts Australian industry on notice
Australia can seize the opportunity or be left behind.
- by Llewelyn Hughes
Opinion
Climate policy
Australians have spoken on climate, so there's no excuse to look backwards
The NSW Energy and Environment Minister calls on Australia's governments to deliver the transition to a low-carbon economy that the vast majority of citizens want, according to new research.
- by Matt Kean
Australians massively overestimate role of oil and gas in economy
Despite the impact of COVID-19, concern about climate change remains intense among Australians, who also overestimate the economic contribution of fossil fuels.
- by Nick O'Malley