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International: Australia

Australian rainforests no longer a carbon sink – study

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, scientists said Thursday, linking the "very concerning" trend to climate change.

For Australia to get moving on electric vehicles, we must ban petrol and diesel cars by 2035

Fri 17 Oct 2025

COMMENT: If nothing is done, transport is projected to be Australia’s largest emissions source by 2030.

Solar panel efficiency record broken in big boost for renewable energy

10 Oct 2025

Scientists in Sydney have smashed the efficiency record for a new type of solar panel.

Christian Downie

Media and political attacks on Australia’s emissions targets ‘straight out of the climate obstruction playbook’

9 Oct 2025

Recent political and media attacks on renewable energy and climate action in Australia have come “out of the climate obstruction playbook” that has been honed over decades around the world by fossil fuel interests, according to professor Christian Downie.

Transport will make or break Australia’s new climate plan – and time is running out to fix it

1 Oct 2025

Australia has a new climate target: cutting emissions by 62-70% below 2005 levels by 2035. Meeting even the lower end means halving emissions in a decade.

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Australia’s climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen

Chris Bowen meets Turkey’s first lady as lobbying to hold Cop31 intensifies

26 Sep 2025

Climate minister, who is trying to persuade Turkey to allow Australia to host the summit, appears with Emine Erdoğan at New York event.

With 2035 emissions targets set, what Australia does next will help shape global efforts to keep 1.5°C alive

24 Sep 2025

This week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will attend the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. He will bring something important: Australia’s new 2035 emission cut target of 62–70% on 2005 levels.

Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’

23 Sep 2025

New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023.

Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen

Govt has not set 2035 renewables target, downplays 90 per cent

23 Sep 2025

Chris Bowen has declined to offer a timeline for setting a 2035 renewables target, despite the Climate Change Authority's projection that more than 90 per cent renewables would be needed to achieve its recommended climate target.

Cut emissions 70% by 2035? There’s only one policy that can get us there

22 Sep 2025

To cut emissions fast, the Australian government will have to dial back its command-and-control approach – and put a price on carbon.

Australia's 2035 climate targets on path to net zero judged by the experts

19 Sep 2025

After much anticipation, Australia has set its new climate targets: a reduction of 62 to 70 per cent within the next 10 years.

Climate risk suburbs: The shocking truth about Aussie house prices

18 Sep 2025

Australia’s property market is hurtling towards a climate reckoning, with billions of dollars in potential losses looming.

Australia: Cost of years of inaction on climate change is now revealed

17 Sep 2025

OPINION: In recent weeks, alarming glimpses into the contents of the federal government’s National Climate Risk Assessment have leaked out.

Rising seas will threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050 – report

16 Sep 2025

One and a half million Australians living in coastal areas are at risk from rising sea levels by 2050, a landmark climate report has warned.

Australia’s biggest gas project greenlit to 2070 with ‘partial’ protection for Indigenous rock art

15 Sep 2025

Approval met with fury from conservation groups and the Greens, who called it a ‘betrayal’ of Australians who want climate action.

Australian Labor Party under internal pressure to commit to at least 70% emissions reduction by 2035

12 Sep 2025

The party’s grassroots campaigners have urged its leadership to ignore business warnings about the cost of setting an ‘ambitious’ target.

Fortescue rejects ‘credibility’ of business council modelling on Australia's 2035 emissions target

8 Sep 2025

A fight over climate policy has broken out within a major Australian business lobby, with mining billionaire Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue sharply criticising the Business Council of Australia over its modelling of the costs of making emissions cuts.

Darwin methane leak ‘covered up’ by gas companies and regulators

2 Sep 2025

At the heart of the project that heralded northern Australia’s gas boom — Darwin’s first liquefied natural gas plant — was a storage tank that operators hailed as a major feat of engineering.

Australia’s biggest gas advocates are quietly swapping out peaking gas plans for big batteries

1 Sep 2025

Big batteries are rapidly displacing plans for gas peaking plants, as cost and commercial factors prompt a rethink on how much the owners of these sites want to spend.

“There was so much death.” A toxic algal bloom is ravaging Australia’s southern coast – warming waters are to blame

29 Aug 2025

Three ingredients are required for an algal bloom to get going – temperature, the right conditions and food. South Australia had all the preconditions necessary, thanks to climate change.

‘Off like a rocket’: Battery rebate prompts massive rooftop power surge

28 Aug 2025

The federal government’s home battery rebate has proved so popular it is adding the equivalent to South Australia’s big battery to the grid every 8.7 days.

500 Australian businesses back 75% climate target

27 Aug 2025

Atlassian, Canva and Fortescue are among a coalition of more than 500 businesses operating in Australia that are backing a 75% emissions reduction target for 2030, which modelling from Deloitte found was technically achievable.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

No room for the timid: setting Australia’s 2035 emissions target is a daring tightrope act

26 Aug 2025

Any week now, Australia will set its 2035 emissions target. It must signal the nation’s strong ambition on climate action, to drive policy and investment. And it must avoid being seen as either unrealistic or too costly.

Australian academics concerned about local research amid US funding cuts

26 Aug 2025

Scientists in regional Australia warn that major policy and funding changes in the United States will have a significant impact on critical research locally.

Sydney records most rain since weather station opened in 1858

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

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.

Economist Ross Garnaut

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.

Dan Tehan

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.

United States
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Climate scientists and republican lawyers are taking aim at Big Tech’s emissions

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Technology companies have long been one of the biggest investors in clean energy, but new accounting rules could upend that.

China
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In China, climate litigation starts with the state

Thu 16 Oct 2025

With thousands of dedicated courts and more than a million recent cases, environmental and climate litigation is booming in China, but it often looks different to the trend seen elsewhere.

Europe
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'Not up for discussion': Brussels rejects Washington's pressure on climate rules

Mon 13 Oct 2025

In response to US demands to roll back the EU's environmental legislation, the European Commission defended its autonomous power to adopt laws.

United Kingdom
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Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

Thu 16 Oct 2025

The UK should be prepared to cope with weather extremes as a result of at least 2C of global warming by 2050, independent climate advisers have said.

Canada
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Renewables are a global economic engine, not a culture war threat

2 Oct 2025

Energy companies are learning this lesson faster than Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Asia
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Indonesia restarts international carbon trade after four years

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto has issued a new decree to restart international carbon emission trading after a four year hiatus.

Pacific
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Familiar tensions emerge at the Pacific Islands Forum

26 Sep 2025

With China-Taiwan rivalry, China-Western competition, and big carbon emitters at odds with the islands on climate policy, there is plenty of tension to go around.

Antarctic/Arctic
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Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica

Mon 13 Oct 2025

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate".

Africa
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Angola lowers climate ambition in blow to spirit of Paris Agreement

Tue 14 Oct 2025

Angola has scaled back its targets for reducing emissions in its new national climate plan, saying it chose “realism and implementability” over the Paris Agreement's calls for governments to set progressively more ambitious goals.

South America
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Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva

Four Brazilians to watch at COP30

Wed 15 Oct 2025

Influential Brazilians, from government figures to Indigenous activists, will take center stage during UN climate talks in the Amazon next month.

United Nations
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UN agency says CO2 levels hit record high last year, causing more extreme weather

Fri 17 Oct 2025

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilisation and “turbo-charging” the Earth’s climate and causing more extreme weather.

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