April 2024
The homeless high school dropout now worth $670m
Mark Constantine, the unconventional founder and head of soap empire Lush, believes getting your product right means spending everything on it.
- Guy Kelly
November 2021
‘We have a colossal mismatch’ but big capital is there for the taking
Global plutocrats are crawling over each other to get into the lucrative decarbonisation business.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
The road to net zero passes through nuclear power
Opposition to nuclear power is on par with unscientific anti-vax conspiracy theories, and just encourages reliance on coal.
- Nyunggai Warren Mundine
October 2021
Macquarie caught up in day of British climate protest
As CEO Shemara Wikramanayake heads to Glasgow for the COP26 summit, her bank’s involvement in a London road project drew activists to the group’s British HQ.
- Hans van Leeuwen
March 2020
Greenies teach Daily Tele how to recycle
You'd never bee-lieve the many uses you can get out of a bee costume.
- Myriam Robin
February 2020
Collinsville wants the jobs from a new coal power plant
Locals are behind Shine Energy’s plans for a high-efficiency, low-emissions coal-fired power station in the town.
- Mark Ludlow
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Liberals must be the commonsense climate party
The Morrison government must better sell its sensible message on climate action - and ridicule Labor's virtue signalling and the Greens' extremism that would destroy the economy.
- Alexander Downer
January 2020
Central banks feel climate change heat
The global guardians of financial stability are being challenged to use their influence to make a difference, writes Tom Rees.
- Tom Rees
- Analysis
- Paris Agreement
BlackRock seeks to regain lost ground in climate fight
The world’s largest asset manager has been talking about the risks of global warming for years. Yet critics argue that it has failed to live up to its own rhetoric.
- Updated
- Attracta Mooney and Owen Walker
- Opinion
- Bushfires
Morrison must reconcile the extremists
It will not be enough to announce a pragmatic approach to climate change. The PM will also have to satisfy the fanatics on both sides of the climate wars.
- Parnell Palme McGuinness
- Analysis
- Trends
Have we reached ‘peak meat’?
With meat consumption increasingly seen as a contributory factor to carbon emissions, deforestation and high water usage, food experts, environmentalists and economists wonder when demand will hit a ceiling.
- Emiko Terazono, Leslie Hook and Tom Hancock
November 2019
Five things I've learnt about saving the world
A new set of rules on climate change is altering the way we eat, dress, travel and work.
- Pilita Clark
- Opinion
- Hong Kong protests
Think twice before you comment on Hong Kong
Abetting violence and radicalism will not bring freedom and democracy, let alone stability and prosperity, to the Chinese territory.
- Wang Xining
- Opinion
- Energy
Extremes offer no fix for the climate emergency
The global transition from fossil fuels to renewables must be measured and managed if growth is to be protected.
- The AFR View
Judges overrule London police ban on Extinction Rebellion
Police overstepped the law in issuing a blanket ban on protests by Extinction Rebellion climate activists in October, London High Court judges ruled.
- Laurie Goering
October 2019
Boris Johnson's father joins climate protesters in London
Stanley Johnson told Extinction Rebellion demonstrators that they had "exactly the right things in mind" with their demand to slash carbon emissions to zero.
Climate activists block roads, camp out in global protests
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the Extinction Rebellion activists "unco-operative crusties" who should abandon their "hemp-smelling bivouacs".
- Danica Kirka and Tristan Lavalette