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International: Australia

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Australia’s leader says opposition will renege on greenhouse gas emissions target if elected

11 Jun 2024

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday said the opposition Liberal Party would renege on the nation’s ambitious target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if it wins elections due within a year.

This week in Australia energy and climate collided; it’s a global story

28 May 2024

The announcement that the NSW government would extend the life of Australia’s biggest coal-fired power station was neither a surprise to energy observers in this country nor unique in a world struggling to at once battle climate change and keep pace with soaring energy demand.

More desalination is coming to Australia’s driest states – but super-salty outflows could trash ecosystems and fisheries

15 May 2024

From around 1996 to 2010, Australia was gripped by the millennium drought and as water shortages bit hard, most capital cities built large seawater desalination plants.

Australia’s PM faces internal revolt from inner-city Labor MPs over gas strategy

14 May 2024

Resources minister Madeleine King released party’s future gas strategy, which says new sources will be needed ‘to 2050 and beyond’.

Climate risks ignored in National Defence Strategy, Australian former defence chief says

6 May 2024

A former chief of Australia's defence force says the federal government has failed to understand the risk climate change poses to the nation's security.

Torres Strait Islanders in landmark Australian federal court case

1 May 2024

Uncle Paul Kabai and Pabai Pabai are suing the Australian government for "failing its duty of care" to protect their ancestral lands from the impacts of climate change.

Australia could reach an ‘ambitious’ emissions cut of up to 75% by 2035, advisers tell Labor

17 Apr 2024

Climate Change Authority says goal could be achievable if more action is taken by governments, business, investors and households.

Scientists warn Australians to prepare for megadroughts lasting more than 20 years

5 Apr 2024

New research shows megadroughts lasting up to 20 years or more have occurred in Australia in the past and could happen again.

Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study finds

28 Mar 2024

Researchers find carbon offsets approach, which is supposed to regenerate scrubby outback forests, was not reducing emissions as promised.

Australia's New Vehicle Efficiency Standard weakened

27 Mar 2024

The Australian government will loosen fuel economy standards for utes and vans in its proposed climate laws for cars.

Climate-conscious investors put nuclear dead last on list of desirable Australian ventures

26 Mar 2024

Nuclear energy ranks last on the list of climate technologies that big institutional investors want exposure to, according to a survey of climate conscious investors with $37tn under management.

A role for nuclear in Australia’s climate response?

7 Mar 2024

In the facts-lite political debate, the opportunities and comparative advantages of solar are being sidelined.

Melbourne Extinction Rebellion climate activists jailed for disrupting traffic

6 Mar 2024

Two environmental activists have been jailed for causing major traffic disruptions in Melbourne, after they used a rental truck to block the West Gate Bridge.

Australia's capital cities will see number of hot days double by 2050 without urgent climate change action

29 Feb 2024

By the time today's children reach retirement, Australia's capital cities will swelter through at least twice as many days over 35 degrees and large swathes of the country will be all but uninhabitable for much of the year.

‘They ain’t seen nothing yet’: UN boss names climate change impacts coming to Australia

27 Feb 2024

Top UN climate official Simon Stiell says Australia will be “front and centre in resettling entire national populations” if climate targets are not met.

Australian Prime Minister vows full support amidst wildfires destroying homes

26 Feb 2024

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pledges immediate assistance to Victoria amid wildfire crisis, emphasising urgency in addressing climate change.

Pressure from young people for Anthony Albanese to consider duty of care over climate harm

23 Feb 2024

A group of young Aussies fronted up to demand Anthony Albanese do more to protect them from one issue.

Australia’s best known carbon-neutral farm can no longer offset its emissions

21 Feb 2024

Trees and soil on Jigsaw Farms in western Victoria have now passed peak sequestration – reflecting the challenge for the broader red meat industry.

Climate change is forcing Australians to weigh up relocating

19 Feb 2024

Big environmental changes mean ever more Australians will confront the tough choice of whether to move home or risk staying put.

Veteran economists say a carbon levy would cut emissions, cut inflation and raise billions, but see little prospect of adoption

16 Feb 2024

Two of Australia’s most respected economists have put forward a bold plan to lower global carbon emissions by at least 6 per cent, super-charge a new green export industry, deliver much cheaper power bills and dramatically cut the rate of inflation.

Climate change ambassador explains why Australia won't back Pacific's calls to urgently phase out fossil fuels

1 Dec 2023

Australia's climate change ambassador says the federal government cannot yet back the Pacific's call to rapidly phase out fossil fuels because it's grappling with "complex" and "difficult" issues thrown up by decarbonisation.

Australia climate change activists disrupt shipping at coal port

27 Nov 2023

A climate change protest off Australia's east coast disrupted operations at the country's biggest coal export port on Saturday.

World’s biggest carbon storage project off WA coast burying only a third of what it promised

15 Nov 2023

After seven years of operation US giant Chevron is burying just a third of the carbon pollution it committed to burying at its Gorgon gas export project.

We are looking for a transformational roadmap to transform our energy sectors: German envoy

8 Nov 2023

With less than four weeks until the next UN climate conference COP-28, Germany's special envoy for climate diplomacy, Jennifer Morgan, is in Australia for a series of meetings with key climate players.

The Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did CSIRO modelling make it look otherwise?

1 Nov 2023

As Australia braces for a summer of projected extreme heatwaves and bushfires, the fossil gas industry is gearing up for a truly enormous new fracking project in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin.

Australia’s compromised climate negotiators

10 Oct 2023

Sitting in a bar in Manhattan recently, there for Climate Week NYC and the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit, I watched as Australians from both government and the private sector worked the room.

Sydney smashes 1 October heat record as Victoria fights bushfires

4 Oct 2023

The previous hottest start to October in Sydney was 33.1C but Sunday’s mercury peaked at 35.6C.

Queensland carbon-negative soil project issued record number of credit units

29 Sep 2023

They look like any other cattle strolling through a grassy paddock in Queensland, but beneath their hooves the soil is doing more than producing feed. It is helping to fight climate change.

Australia would be raising $70 billion a year from the carbon price if it wasn't dismantled

19 Sep 2023

The problems at Qantas, and the explosion in executive remuneration this century, reflect a much more general problem in the Australian economy.

Australia braces for bushfire season

13 Sep 2023

Smoke sweeps through the treetops as a fire consumes the dense undergrowth of the Australian winter bush.

Canberra could protect decarbonising industries from unfair competition

8 Sep 2023

The Australian government has engaged an eminent academic to study the need for a carbon tariff to protect local manufacturers from unfair competition from imports which are not subject to restrictions on emissions of CO2.

Eco-anxiety looms as headspace survey reveals young people want climate change action

8 Sep 2023

An Australian survey of young people shows more than half fear for the future due to climate change.

Sydney is running out of water while facing climate change and a population boom

5 Sep 2023

Experts are getting increasingly nervous about a problem that’s been lying dormant for years: Sydney’s water supply is running out.

Aus govt acknowledges risk of climate change to bonds after court case

1 Sep 2023

The federal government has agreed to settle a world-first court case accusing it of misleading investors by failing to disclose the risk climate change poses to its bonds.

Australia's most popular carbon credit scheme questioned by experts

22 Aug 2023

Deep in the Australian outback, there are billions of dollars being made from carbon farming.

Australia weighs up green imports tariffs for steel, cement

18 Aug 2023

Imported steel and cement could face a tariff to ensure Australian producers seeking to reduce carbon emissions are not disadvantaged.

Santos’s deep-sea carbon capture fantasy

16 Aug 2023

New laws will allow a notorious gas field project to dump carbon dioxide in Timor-Leste waters – using a process that has not worked anywhere in the world – so it can meet its net-zero requirements.

Fossil fuel sites in Australia releasing climate-damaging methane into atmosphere

11 Aug 2023

An investigative report published by a global nonprofit has made worrying revelations about methane leaks from as many as 35 fossil fuel sites located in Australia.

Australian aid policy to focus on climate — and countering China

10 Aug 2023

Australia has put the climate and job creation in the Pacific at the centre of its new foreign aid policy, part of an effort to woo back island nations that have fallen under China’s deep-pocketed influence.

Climate crisis: Australia must ready for ‘devastating’ regional disruption, MPs told

4 Aug 2023

Failed states, a rise in authoritarian politics and heightened risks of conflict among potential threats outlined in thinktank’s assessment.

Australian doctors want urgent action on climate threats

2 Aug 2023

Medical colleges representing over 100,000 doctors, physicians and medical experts say Australia's healthcare system is unprepared for the next disaster.

Australia's kelp forests an underwater 'Amazon' could help climate change

17 Jul 2023

To most people, the word "forest" would conjure images of vast tree communities, like the towering karri forests of WA's South West.

Asparagopsis seaweed: scientists call for stricter oversight in livestock sector

4 Jul 2023

Safety concerns have been raised about the native seaweed asparagopsis, which is now being commercialised to help farmers reduce methane emissions in sheep and cattle.

Aus sides with China, Russia in bid to sink Pacific nations’ climate plan

4 Jul 2023

Australia has been criticised for siding with China and Russia to oppose a popular plan from a group of Pacific Island nations to tackle carbon emissions from the shipping industry.

Scientists researching cloud brightening in bid to cool Great Barrier Reef

28 Jun 2023

Queensland scientists who have been altering clouds with tiny particles to try and limit the effects of global warming are presenting their findings for the first time this week.

Australia commits to build $34 million renewable hydrogen plant

27 Jun 2023

Australia has green-lit plans to build a A$51 million (US$34 million) renewable hydrogen plant in Victoria state, as the country moves to cut carbon emissions and boost alternative power resources.

Farmers lead climate change adjustment in Victoria, Australia

22 Jun 2023

Information that is relevant, accessible and trusted is critical for farmers seeking to adapt their agricultural business amid changes in climate, according to analysis of surveys conducted by the North East Catchment Management Authority (NECMA).

Climate change threatens all island life, hearing told

14 Jun 2023

When Paul Kabai was growing up on Saibai he was taught how, when and where to plant food, such as the root vegetable cassava, by his Aunties and Uncles.

New plan to manage health impacts of climate change

9 Jun 2023

Australians have been asked to have their say on a new plan to ensure the nation's health care system can respond to the impacts of climate change.

Conservationists file complaint with ASIC over fertiliser producer's climate marketing

8 Jun 2023

South Australia's peak environment group has called on the corporate watchdog to investigate accusations a Leigh Creek fertiliser company's marketing is misleading about the climate impacts of its processing plant – an allegation the company strenuously denies.

United States
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Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ blows US emissions goal by 7bn tonnes

Tue 8 Jul 2025

President Donald Trump’s dismantling of climate policy means the US will add an extra 7bn tonnes of emissions to the atmosphere from now until 2030, compared to meeting its former climate pledge under the Paris Agreement.

China
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China solar and wind installations break more world records

Mon 7 Jul 2025

China is leading the world in new solar and wind installations and doing so at a record-shattering pace.

Europe
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EU countries seek more cuts to deforestation rules

Wed 9 Jul 2025

From December, the world-first deforestation law will require operators placing goods including soy, beef and palm oil, onto the EU market to provide proof their products did not cause deforestation.

United Kingdom
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Net-zero much cheaper than thought for UK – and unchecked global warming far more costly

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Reaching net-zero will be much cheaper for the UK government than previously expected – and the economic damages of unmitigated climate change far more severe.

Canada
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Is Mark Carney turning his back on climate action?

23 Jun 2025

The G7 summit in Alberta, hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney, has ended with only passing mention of fighting climate change, including a statement on wildfires that is silent on the pressing need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Asia
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Türkiye's Parliament adopts first-ever climate law

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Promising a wide range of provisions and increased vigilance against climate change, the new law is to provide action plans on a national and local scale, while bolstering Türkiye’s 2053 climate goals and protecting the country from environmental disasters.

Pacific
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Nearly a third of Tuvaluans have applied for climate migration visa

27 Jun 2025

With their country threatened by sea level rise, the people of Tuvalu have been offered an escape route through an agreement with Australia, and many are contemplating leaving their home.

Antarctic/Arctic
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Melting glaciers and ice caps could unleash wave of volcanic eruptions, study says

Wed 9 Jul 2025

Research in Chile suggests the climate crisis makes eruptions more likely and explosive, and warns of Antarctica risk.

Africa
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Africa is not a solar geoengineering test site

Tue 8 Jul 2025

This potentially dangerous course of action would divert financing and support from real solutions, while putting the continent’s ecosystems and communities at risk.

South America
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In Latin America, the energy transition stirs a rise in human rights lawsuits

Tue 8 Jul 2025

A new report shows that more than half of the 95 energy transition-related lawsuits recorded globally since 2009 took place in Latin America and the Caribbean.

United Nations
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UN development conference backs innovative ways to boost climate finance

Mon 7 Jul 2025

Leaders push for better financial systems at the Financing for Development summit to help poor nations cope with climate and economic shocks.

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