Key oceans treaty crosses threshold to come into force
Tue 23 Sep 2025
A global agreement designed to protect the world's oceans and reverse damage to marine life is set to become international law.
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UN climate chief says new national climate plans will fall short on emissions cuts
Wed 24 Sep 2025
With 2035 targets expected to be too weak to meet global goals to limit warming, the UN’s Simon Stiell says COP30 should focus on how countries can speed up delivery of their plans.
‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate
Wed 24 Sep 2025
The president used a large chunk of his hour-long speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies.
With 2035 emissions targets set, what Australia does next will help shape global efforts to keep 1.5°C alive
Wed 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.
How the world’s most elderly country is fighting heat in a deadly double crisis
Wed 24 Sep 2025
The alarm device is part of a government push to combat a deadly double emergency: the collision of Japan’s climate crisis and its aging population.
California's Newsom signs sweeping energy affordability package
Wed 24 Sep 2025
The new laws address electricity markets, wildfire costs, oil drilling and the state's landmark emissions-trading program.
Trump administration moves to revoke permit for Massachusetts offshore wind project
Wed 24 Sep 2025
The Trump administration has moved to block a Massachusetts offshore wind farm, its latest effort to hobble an industry and technology that President Donald Trump has attacked as “ugly” and unreliable compared to fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
UN chief warns 1.5C warming goal at risk of 'collapsing'
Tue 23 Sep 2025
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told AFP Friday that efforts to cap climate warming at 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial level are failing, as the UN prepared to host a climate week event alongside its annual diplomatic gathering.
New York readies for record Climate Week despite Trump chill factor
Tue 23 Sep 2025
The boost in engagement has come “precisely as an antidote to the current U.S. administration's attitude toward climate change".
Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’
Tue 23 Sep 2025
New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023.
