International: Australia

$800m pledge keeps Australia's green hydrogen dream alive

Fri 21 Mar 2025

The Albanese Labor government has pledged more than $800 million in production incentives to a green hydrogen development in remote Western Australia, defying mounting scepticism over the future of the country's green fuel industry.

Mining head calls 'net' in net zero a 'weasel word'

17 Mar 2025

Fortescue chair wants companies to focus on 'real zero' as he explains $6.2bn plan to transform business.

Ex-Cyclone Alfred sends 'phenomenal' levels of rainfall to Brisbane and Gold Coast

11 Mar 2025

About 240,000 homes and businesses are without power in Queensland in the wake of Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, according to the state's premier.

Australia's biggest coal-fired power station is 'driving up energy bills'

10 Mar 2025

Australia's largest coal-fired power station is unreliable and driving up electricity prices, according to a new report that argues against the viability of keeping coal plants open beyond their scheduled closure dates.

Rare cyclone threatens millions on Australia's east coast

6 Mar 2025

Millions of residents along Australia's eastern coast are preparing for the impact of the most southerly cyclone to threaten the region in more than five decades.

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Albanese Government vows to secure future of Australia's food supply chain by developing new national strategy

6 Mar 2025

The Albanese Government has promised to help secure the future of Australia's food supply chain by developing a new national strategy if it wins the election.

From drill to grill: Continued fossil fuel use puts us all in the hot seat

3 Mar 2025

The Climate Council is warning that Australia's biggest cities could face dangerously hot temperatures, unless action is taken to slow down climate change. The Council has released a 'heat map' which also shows that continuing to cut climate pollution can safeguard Australians from the worst impacts of soaring heat.

Nuclear path would blow out Australia's emissions targets, new modelling shows

25 Feb 2025

Australia's peak climate body has published new modelling showing the Coalition's proposed nuclear pathway would result in an additional 2 billion tonnes of emissions in the atmosphere.

The climate crisis is a cost-of-living issue for Australia. My generation will be the first to pay for it

21 Feb 2025

OPINION: Politicians have divorced the issue of global heating from soaring prices - Australians must take bold action at the ballot box.

Australian activists fined for plans to damage energy CEO's home

17 Feb 2025

Three activists who planned to damage the home of Woodside boss Meg O'Neill were fined at their sentencing hearing in a Perth court.

'A house battery you can drive around': how a handful of Australians are selling power from their cars back to the grid

14 Feb 2025

Our cars sit unused most of the time. If you have an electric vehicle, you might leave it charging at home or work after driving it. But there's another step you could take. If you have a bidirectional charger, you can set it to sell power back to the grid when demand is high.

Australians are being misled by 'dodgy' offsets, say Fortescue

13 Feb 2025

Australians are being misled into believing that low-quality carbon offset schemes will lead to a net zero future, despite evidence that only reducing fossil fuels will work, iron ore mining giant Fortescue says.

Thousands flee homes as floods hit Australia

4 Feb 2025

A woman has died in Australia and thousands have been forced to flee their homes after torrential rainfall caused flooding in northern Queensland.

Developers abandon applications to build wind farm off Australia's South West coast

28 Jan 2025

Two of the earliest proponents of an offshore wind farm in WA's South West are among several developers who are no longer applying to work on the project.

Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds

23 Jan 2025

More than 40% of individual corals monitored around a Great Barrier Reef island were killed last year in the most widespread coral bleaching outbreak to hit the reef system, a study has found.

Saving the ‘kidneys’ of the Great Barrier Reef

20 Dec 2024

In Queensland, Australia, once-unlivable wetlands are now attracting birds and fish while also reconnecting Indigenous youth with the land.

No glue, chains or locks: Victoria’s antisemitism crackdown a smokescreen to target climate protesters, critics say

20 Dec 2024

The Victorian government has been accused of “shoehorning” new anti-protest measures that could be used to crack down on the climate movement into reforms touted as necessary to combat antisemitism.

As the heat soars, dangers mount in Sydney’s parks and playgrounds

18 Dec 2024

In the state’s far west, the temperature was oppressive on Monday, reaching well into the 40s as residents braced for the prospect of Australian heat records being shattered.

Australia leads the world in arresting climate and environment protesters

17 Dec 2024

Australian police are world leaders at arresting climate and environmental protesters.

Australia accused of undermining landmark climate change case brought by Pacific nations in international court

4 Dec 2024

Vanuatu leads the charge of several nations arguing developed nations have a legal responsibility beyond UN commitments.

‘Unprecedented’ climate extremes are everywhere. Our baselines for what’s normal will need to change

4 Dec 2024

Extreme temperature and rainfall events are increasing around the world, including Australia. What makes them extreme is their rarity and severity compared to the typical climate.

Albanese government says Australia on target to reduce emissions – but campaigners say it could do more

2 Dec 2024

Departmental analysis includes contentious measurements but climate minister says government is cleaning up after ‘decade of denial, delay, dysfunction and utter neglect’.

Carbon footprint of a total knee replacement in Australia on par with driving a car from Brisbane to Sydney

27 Nov 2024

Researchers have calculated the greenhouse gas impact from a single knee replacement. A three-hour operation has similar emissions compared to a 914-kilometre car trip.

170 climate protesters arrested after allegedly disrupting shipping in New South Wales

26 Nov 2024

Two protesters have been granted bail after facing court on charges relating to an anti-fossil fuel demonstration that allegedly disrupted the shipping channel leading into the world's largest coal port.

Australia commits additional $50 million to deal with climate change

21 Nov 2024

The Australian government has committed an extra $50 million towards a global fund to deal with the loss and damage caused by climate change.

Australia accused of ‘exporting climate destruction’ on tiny Pacific neighbours with massive gas expansion plans

20 Nov 2024

Pacific governments at a UN climate summit are criticising Australia’s plans for a massive gas industry expansion in Western Australia, saying it could result in 125 times more greenhouse gas emissions than their island nations release in a year.

Is Australia's migration system ready for rising numbers of climate refugees?

19 Nov 2024

Australia is now obligated to help Tuvalu when it calls for help to respond to "the devastating impacts of climate change."

Australian engineer says Elon Musk, JD Vance key to US climate policy under Donald Trump

13 Nov 2024

An Australian engineer says billionaire Elon Musk and vice-president-elect JD Vance could become unexpected climate allies under the Trump administration.

Dams have taken half the water from Australia’s second biggest river – and climate change will make it even worse

7 Nov 2024

The largest wetland on Australia’s second longest river, the Murrumbidgee in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, is drying up. This is bad news for the plants, animals and people who rely on the vast Lowbidgee Floodplain.

Landmark court case sees activist group sue gas giant Santos for allegedly misleading investors

30 Oct 2024

Gas giant Santos told investors it had a clear plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2040 but had no evidence to back it up, the Federal Court has heard during the first morning of litigation against the gas giant.

COP this – gas is not a climate solution

30 Oct 2024

Hosting COP31 climate talks is an opportunity to showcase South Australia to the world, writes Belinda Noble, but not if we allow it to promote gas.

Why the time is right for Australia’s second shot at carbon pricing

25 Oct 2024

By Ross Garnaut | OPINION: Australia now has a government and parliament wanting to build Australia as the renewable energy superpower of the zero-carbon world economy.

Qantas accused of greenwashing as climate advocates lodge complaint over sustainability, net zero claims

17 Oct 2024

An environmental advocacy group has lodged a complaint with the consumer watchdog over claims Qantas makes on sustainability and climate.

Electric car sales have slumped. Misinformation is one of the reasons

16 Oct 2024

Battery electric vehicle sales in Australia have flattened in recent months.

Half Australia’s oceans to be protected - more than any other country

11 Oct 2024

Little-known Australian islands that teem with emperor penguins and elephant seals, and have the country’s only two active volcanoes, will be protected with an additional 300,000 square kilometres of marine park.

Coalmines and gasfields may be emitting twice as much methane as declared, report warns

11 Oct 2024

Australia’s coalmines and gasfields may be emitting twice as much methane as they currently declare, underscoring the need to introduce independent reporting of the potent greenhouse gas, an energy thinktank has warned.

Australia suffers setback in green hydrogen race

10 Oct 2024

Australia’s bid to become a global hydrogen superpower has been dealt a blow, with the nation’s biggest energy utility pulling out of building a large-scale green hydrogen hub despite the project being shortlisted for a share of $2 billion of funding from the Albanese government.

Australian Security Leaders Climate Group calls on federal govt to overhaul climate threat preparedness

9 Oct 2024

The danger of climate change has led to calls for a radical overhaul of how the federal government is planning to manage climate threats.

Our leaders are collaborating with fossil fuel colonialists

4 Oct 2024

By Tim Winton | COMMENT: The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are

Australia’s ‘immoral’ coalmine decision akin to drowning its Pacific neighbours, Tuvalu’s climate minister declares

1 Oct 2024

Tuvalu’s climate minister says Australia’s decision to approve three coalmine expansions calls into question its claim to be a “member of the Pacific family”, and undermines the Australian case to co-host the 2026 UN climate summit with island nations.

Define ‘tree’: The fight over Woolworths’ eco-beef pledge

27 Sep 2024

Woolworths’ ban on beef reared on deforested land has prompted Australian farmers to campaign for rules to define the practice that would allow them to chop down trees as part of their land management.

Not enough demand: Big batteries in Aus may be told to stand by on empty to avoid rooftop solar switch-off

26 Sep 2024

The Australian Energy Market Operator is poised to introduce a significant shift in operating protocols that would involve instructing big batteries to stand by on empty to help address periods of extremely low or even negative operating demand.

'Why are carbon offsets not dead yet?'

26 Sep 2024

Journalist and environmental activist George Monbiot discusses neoliberalism, nature, and negative consequences with the Australia Institute's Climate and Energy program director.

New book exposes just how long, and hard, the fossil fuel industry has worked to advance its interests

25 Sep 2024

As freelance journalist Royce Kurmelovs points out in his new book Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil, most people underestimate just how far in advance the fossil fuel industry plans not only its new projects, but its PR and lobbying efforts, as well.

Climate change threatens Australian tourism more than is widely believed. Here’s why

23 Sep 2024

Right now, Australia is one of the top five tourist destinations in the world, a distinction the World Economic Forum says it shares with only the United States, France, Spain and Japan.

Cop31 is a chance for Australia to go from climate laggard to global leader

20 Sep 2024

OPINION: Australia’s bid to co-host the UN’s climate conference is not just a diplomatic event; it is a pivotal opportunity to redefine the nation’s role in the global fight against climate change.

Almost 68% of Australia’s tourism sites at major risk if climate crisis continues, report says

13 Sep 2024

Uluru, the Daintree and Bondi beach among locations that could be impacted if planet hits even 2C of warming by 2050.

Australian city stands to receive $200m economic boost if bid to co-host UN climate talks succeeds

12 Sep 2024

Australia and Pacific countries are vying with Türkiye to host the annual United Nations climate change talks in 2026.

Australia may delay release of 2035 climate target as world awaits outcome of US election

6 Sep 2024

Experts urge Australia not to delay target too long as report by Climate Change Authority identifies six barriers to net zero.

How climate change accelerated Australia's spring winds

4 Sep 2024

Strong winds in eastern Australia this week are being driven by climate change interfering with jet streams, the powerful high-altitude winds that encircle the globe.

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