Fossil fuels
After years of promises on climate change, oil giants are backtracking
Fossil fuel majors are choosing profits over plans to bring a clean future closer.
- by Nick O'Malley
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Australia’s fossil fuel giants set to take multibillion-dollar hit
Australia’s gas and coal exporters face a tricky next five years with prices expected to keep tumbling.
- by Nick Toscano
Winter gas threat grows in Victoria, NSW as offshore fields dry up
Gas users are in danger of winter shortfalls sooner than originally feared as ExxonMobil and Woodside’s Bass Strait production fields dry up.
- by Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
‘Bring it on’: The plan to get SUVs, monster utes off Sydney’s roads
Paris residents voted to triple parking fees for big cars. Should Sydney do the same to make its streets safer?
- by Andrew Taylor
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Coal
Coal companies to reap up to $1 billion compensation before price cap winds up
Chris Bowen is ready to lift the cap on the coal price, but he has not yet made the final call.
- by Paul Sakkal
Opinion
Climate crisis
I was a corporate greenwasher. Sorry for making you think metal straws would fix climate change
This wasn’t the creative life I pictured when I set out to become a writer. But it was a line of work I excelled at. I helped businesses rebrand it as a matter of lifestyle, solved by reusable cups and composting.
- by Wendy Syfret
Analysis
COP28 Dubai
What COP28 achieved – and what it failed to do
For the first time in COP’s 28-year history and in the face of fierce opposition from some states, fossil fuels were explicitly named in the event’s final text.
- by Nick O'Malley
COP28 ends with tears, and a historic deal on transition away from fossil fuels
The end of the negotiations came suddenly, a day after the talks were to have ended and after two marathon nights of tough discussions between rival voting blocs.
- by Nick O'Malley
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COP28 Dubai
COP28 talks on the cusp of failure with bitter divide over the future of fossil fuels
There had been hope that the final agreement would include language that specifically addressed the key cause of emissions and climate change – the burning of fossil fuels.
- by Nick O'Malley
COP28 boss says he was misinterpreted, fossil fuel phase out is ‘inevitable’
The COP28 president has addressed remarks he made suggesting there was no science to support the need to phase out fossil fuels to cap global warming.
- by Lucy Cormack
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COP28 Dubai
‘Heading towards a very unsafe world’: Vanuatu’s climate change minister fights to end fossil fuel projects
Vanuatu Climate Change Minister Ralph Regenvanu is hoping developed countries such as Australia commit to phasing out fossil fuels like coal and gas at the UN’s annual meeting. The future of his country depends on it.
- by Laura Chung