Albanese government says Australia on target to reduce emissions – but campaigners say it could do moreMonday - Departmental analysis includes contentious measurements but climate minister says government is cleaning up after ‘decade of denial, delay, dysfunction and utter neglect’. |
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Carbon footprint of a total knee replacement in Australia on par with driving a car from Brisbane to Sydney27 Nov 24 - 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. |
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170 climate protesters arrested after allegedly disrupting shipping in New South Wales26 Nov 24 - 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. |
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Australia commits additional $50 million to deal with climate change21 Nov 24 - The Australian government has committed an extra $50 million towards a global fund to deal with the loss and damage caused by climate change. |
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Australia accused of ‘exporting climate destruction’ on tiny Pacific neighbours with massive gas expansion plans20 Nov 24 - 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. |
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Is Australia's migration system ready for rising numbers of climate refugees?19 Nov 24 - Australia is now obligated to help Tuvalu when it calls for help to respond to "the devastating impacts of climate change." |
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Australian engineer says Elon Musk, JD Vance key to US climate policy under Donald Trump13 Nov 24 - An Australian engineer says billionaire Elon Musk and vice-president-elect JD Vance could become unexpected climate allies under the Trump administration. |
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Dams have taken half the water from Australia’s second biggest river – and climate change will make it even worse7 Nov 24 - 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... |
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Landmark court case sees activist group sue gas giant Santos for allegedly misleading investors30 Oct 24 - 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... |
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COP this – gas is not a climate solution30 Oct 24 - 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. |
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Why the time is right for Australia’s second shot at carbon pricing25 Oct 24 - 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. |
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Qantas accused of greenwashing as climate advocates lodge complaint over sustainability, net zero claims17 Oct 24 - An environmental advocacy group has lodged a complaint with the consumer watchdog over claims Qantas makes on sustainability and climate. |
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Electric car sales have slumped. Misinformation is one of the reasons16 Oct 24 - Battery electric vehicle sales in Australia have flattened in recent months. |
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Half Australia’s oceans to be protected - more than any other country11 Oct 24 - 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... |
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Coalmines and gasfields may be emitting twice as much methane as declared, report warns11 Oct 24 - 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... |
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Australia suffers setback in green hydrogen race10 Oct 24 - 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... |
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Australian Security Leaders Climate Group calls on federal govt to overhaul climate threat preparedness9 Oct 24 - The danger of climate change has led to calls for a radical overhaul of how the federal government is planning to manage climate threats. |
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Our leaders are collaborating with fossil fuel colonialists4 Oct 24 - 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 |
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Australia’s ‘immoral’ coalmine decision akin to drowning its Pacific neighbours, Tuvalu’s climate minister declares1 Oct 24 - 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... |
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