Environment
Climate change
Where Australia stands as the world resets on climate change
What you need to know about the week that saw the US commit to nearly doubling its emissions reduction target and the world focus anew on the greatest threat to our planet.
- by Nick O'Malley
Latest
‘There are no jobs on a dead planet’, Sharan Burrow tells Biden’s summit
The former Australia trade union chief now a leader of the international union movement committed to supporting a just transition to clean jobs.
- by Nick O'Malley
Opinion
Climate policy
The feds have ditched us on climate change, it’s time we ditch them too
Australian businesses and state governments (perhaps even wine bars) have plans and targets to tackle emissions. Let’s face it, they are fast making Canberra obsolete.
- by Jan Fran
Analysis
Paris Agreement
Australia left behind as global climate action gathers pace
The US has proven it has returned to international leadership with its climate change summit, while Australia remains a reluctant partner.
- by Nick O'Malley
Scott Morrison’s speech to the Leaders Summit on Climate annotated
The Prime Minister told world leaders Australia would commit to practical results rather than empty targets, but how straight was he really talking?
- by Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley
Opinion
Energy
Shenhua coal deal points to mining policy on the run
The $100 million Shenhua agreement to end the plans for coal mines on the Liverpool Plains reveals a muddled mess of mining plans in NSW.
- by Peter Hannam
World’s oceans changing as currents show new patterns
The world’s ocean currents are altering, particularly along Australia’s eastern seaboard and around Antarctica.
- by Peter Hannam
Analysis
Paris Agreement
Technology is crucial to cutting emissions, but only part of the story
“The analogy would be if John F Kennedy had announced in 1961 that we were going to go to the moon and we are going to let NASA take its own sweet time figuring out how to get there.”
- by Nick O'Malley
Opinion
Climate policy
Red alert for the planet: UN chief’s call to phase out coal by 2030
The Secretary-General of the United Nations marks Earth Day - Thursday - by penning this warning: time is running out to prevent the climate crisis from becoming a permanent global catastrophe.
- by Antonio Guterres
Analysis
Paris Agreement
As Australia tiptoes to 2050 climate targets, the world moves on 2030
Recent comments by the Prime Minister suggest he is moving towards a hard 2050 emissions reductions target, but the rest of the world has already moved.
- by Nick O'Malley
Military leaders, security chiefs demand action on climate threat
Two things keep former chief of defence Admiral Chris Barrie awake at night. The one that can be addressed by the Australian government is climate change.
- by Nick O'Malley