International: Australia

Sydney records most rain since weather station opened in 1858

Wed 20 Aug 2025

Sydney's wettest August in 27 years has tipped the city's recent climate into uncharted territory.

Forget net zero. We need ‘real zero’ – and these companies prove it’s profitable

15 Aug 2025

OPINION: Three huge global companies – IKEA, Lendlease and Fortescue Mining – are heading towards real zero. If they can do it, so can everyone.

Climate crisis risks to Aus economy and environment ‘intense and scary’, unreleased govt report

14 Aug 2025

Sources say delayed risk assessment includes modelling of effects of climate crisis in ways that have been little discussed in political debate so far.

Australia can hit an 85% emissions cut by 2035 – if government and business seize the moment

13 Aug 2025

Discussions are hotting up over Australia’s 2035 emission reduction target, which the federal government is due to reveal by September this year. It will be a crucial announcement, for several reasons.

Great Barrier Reef suffers biggest annual drop in live coral since 1980s after devastating coral bleaching

11 Aug 2025

Researchers warn reef may reach tipping point where coral cannot recover fast enough between major catastrophic events

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What’s in a number? New carbon target sparks new climate warfare

4 Aug 2025

Casual observers of Australia's federal parliament might this week have been startled by a sudden resumption of conflict over climate, but the timing was no accident.

Reintroducing a carbon price the 'most economically efficient tax reform' to repair Australia's budget

1 Aug 2025

Economist Ross Garnaut has warned of "tragic consequences" for productivity and the federal budget, as well as climate change, unless Australia reintroduces a carbon price "as a matter of urgency".

As US climate data-gathering is gutted, Australian forecasting is now at real risk

30 Jul 2025

As damage from climate change intensifies, political change overseas is threatening Australia’s ability to track what’s happening now, and predict what will happen next.

Simon Stiell has urged Australia to be ambitious when setting its 2035 emissions target.

UN climate chief urges Australia to 'go big' on 2035 emissions target

29 Jul 2025

One of the world's top climate diplomats has urged the federal government to commit to an ambitious 2035 target to cut carbon emissions, saying Australia can reap "colossal" economic rewards if it embraces clean energy.

Toxic algae are turning South Australia’s coral reefs into underwater graveyards

29 Jul 2025

Since March, a harmful algal bloom, fueled by a marine heat wave, has been choking South Australia’s coastline.

Newcastle is one of the largest coal export ports in Australis

The ICJ’s ruling means Australia and other major polluters face a new era of climate reparations

25 Jul 2025

By Harj Narulla | OPINION: Australia has found itself on the wrong side of history.

Torres Strait leaders lost their landmark case. How can governments be held to account on climate?

21 Jul 2025

Experts and advocates say it’s time for the law to change after judge says matters based on climate policy cannot be decided by courts.

Rio Tinto urges Albanese govt to reimpose carbon tax, boost green energy subsidies

17 Jul 2025

The mining giant has used it’s submission to the Productivity Commission ahead of the Albanese government’s economic roundtable to lobby for the re-imposition of a carbon pricing scheme and bolstered green energy subsidies.

Indigenous elders lose landmark climate battle against Australian government

16 Jul 2025

The Australian government has won a landmark climate case against residents of islands under siege from the impacts of climate change.

Warmer seas fuel dangerous ‘weather bomb’ in New South Wales

3 Jul 2025

If the storm shapes up as predicted, we can expect to see damage to houses and trees as well as significant beach erosion – especially in heavily populated areas exposed to the storm’s southern flank.

Australia's red meat industry drops 2030 carbon neutral goal

2 Jul 2025

An Australian livestock industry body said on Tuesday it had abandoned its goal to make the sector, a significant emitter of planet-warming methane, carbon neutral by 2030 but that reducing emissions would remain a priority.

How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine

26 Jun 2025

How bad can climate damage get? Worse than you imagine, if Australians’ recent experience of more extreme weather and natural disasters — driven by a hotter climate — are an indication, because the past is no longer a reliable guide to the future.

Australian opposition poised for protracted brawl over climate targets

16 Jun 2025

The financial cost to reach net zero by 2050 may shape the Coalition’s decision on whether to retain or abandon the target, the new shadow minister, Dan Tehan, says, as he prepares to lead a heavily contested internal review of the policy.

Labor accused of ‘gaslighting’ Australians on climate crisis as fossil fuel projects keep getting approved

9 Jun 2025

‘They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway,’ one advocate says.

Australian farmers face 'new world' of extreme weather as scientists urge action on climate change

6 Jun 2025

Scientists and politicians are warning big policy shifts are needed to mitigate extreme weather impacts, following what farmers describe as unprecedented flooding in the New South Wales Hunter and Mid North Coast regions last month.

Australia: Carbon tariff on the table for overseas businesses

3 Jun 2025

Labor has left the door open to a tax on cement and steel coming in from places not taking sufficient climate action.

Australia lets biggest LNG plant run to 2070 in climate blow

29 May 2025

Australia gave preliminary approval to extend the life of its biggest and oldest liquefied natural gas plant for decades, potentially creating billions of dollars in new drilling opportunities but raising questions about the nation’s climate agenda.

Greenwashing is rife in Australia, but could its days be numbered?

28 May 2025

COMMENT: Have you ever ticked the box to “fly carbon neutral”, had something delivered via “carbon-neutral shipping” or chosen to pay a bit extra to buy “carbon-neutral gas” from your energy retailer?

Australia: land of drought and flooding rains

27 May 2025

As towns flood on one end of Australia, large areas further south are experiencing their worst drought on record. The people in these regions are preparing for life in a future climate.

Albanese government must redirect Australia’s near $600 per person annual fossil fuel giveaway

26 May 2025

COMMENT: Every Australian unwittingly contributes about $563 each year to subsidise fossil fuels – a staggering number given the urgency of climate action.

Members of the Parents for Climate group, and lawyer David Hertzberg, outside the federal court in Sydney. The advocacy group accused Energy Australia of greenwashing. The parties have now agreed to a settlement.

Energy Australia apologises to 400,000 customers and settles greenwashing legal action

22 May 2025

Energy retailer says carbon offsetting ‘not the most effective way’ to reduce emissions.

Australia is unlikely to hit its renewable energy goal, Wood Mackenzie says

20 May 2025

Australia is set to fall far short of its target of 82% renewable generation by 2030 due to state-level rollbacks, grid connection delays and inadequate investment, consultancy Wood Mackenzie said on Thursday.

Energy Australia is in court accused of greenwashing. What is the case about and why is it significant?

16 May 2025

Climate group alleges energy giant misled 400,000 customers about ‘Go Neutral’ product, arguing that carbon credits don’t actually remove emissions.

Five huge climate opportunities await the next Australian parliament – and it has the numbers to deliver

12 May 2025

Australians have returned an expanded Labor Party to government alongside a suite of climate-progressive independents. Meanwhile, the Coalition – which promoted nuclear energy and a slower renewables transition – suffered a historic defeat.

Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds

6 May 2025

US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades.

Australia’s centre-left Labor Party retains power in vote seen as test of anti-Trump sentiment

5 May 2025

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has secured a second term in office in a disastrous night for his conservative rivals, as voters chose stability over change against a backdrop of global turmoil inflicted by US President Donald Trump.

Where Labor and the Coalition stand on nature and environment policies this federal election

2 May 2025

So what are political parties offering when it comes to our nature laws?

Australia: Coalition under fire for planning to scrap Labor climate policies

22 Apr 2025

With Peter Dutton’s views on climate change in the spotlight, the focus has turned onto whether there will be any policies to reduce emissions in the next decade.

Australia: Climate change pushing up insurance risk

17 Apr 2025

With flood waters rising, there are warnings of a “climate-induced credit crunch” as natural disasters threaten the viability of home insurance.

Garbage bag giant fined $8.25m for falsely claiming products were recycled plastic

16 Apr 2025

The company behind GLAD garbage bags has been fined $8.25m for falsely claiming the products were made from recycled ocean plastics.

Australia: Coalition clarifies commitment to Paris Agreement after confusion on climate targets

14 Apr 2025

The federal Coalition has clarified it remains committed to the Paris climate accord, despite earlier comments from the shadow energy minister indicating it could leave the agreement.

Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign

11 Apr 2025

The federal election should be an earnest contest over the fundamentals of Australia’s climate and energy policies.

Labor’s home batteries policy could help Australians who will never take it up. Here’s how

9 Apr 2025

The government’s promise to slash the cost of household batteries should be welcomed – it could drive a change that benefits everyone who uses the power grid.

Properties destroyed as ‘horrendous’ waves batter Sydney coast

3 Apr 2025

Residents have been evacuated, properties flooded and coastal infrastructure damaged after a large swell combined with a king tide to batter the Australian shore.

Rain records to fall in Queensland with Townsville to set new annual high

1 Apr 2025

Queensland cities and towns are dealing with the effects of flooding – including extensive stock losses and widespread damage – after a year’s worth of rain fell in a matter of days.

Hosting the UN climate summit is far from ‘madness’ – here’s how Australia stands to benefit

1 Apr 2025

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton would withdraw Australia’s bid to co-host next year’s global climate summit if the Coalition wins the federal election.

Green hydrogen has stalled in nearly every corner of Australia. So why is the government still revving it up?

28 Mar 2025

The green hydrogen revolution wasn’t supposed to go like this. In September, the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, declared Australia “the green hydrogen capital of the world” with “50-plus companies on the ground” and a pipeline of investments worth $200bn.

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

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.

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.