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January 2024

In 2019, one of TMC’s sponsoring states, Nauru, ceded its seat at the International Seabed Authority council to Gerard Barron so he could speak directly to member countries.

Ocean-floor minerals are being touted as the next frontier

A new kind of 21st-century mining company is emerging: the for-profit corporation as self-declared climate saviour.

  • Christopher Pollon

December 2023

Greenpeace activists staged a protest earlier this month at Woodside’s Perth headquarters.

Greenpeace takes Woodside to court alleging greenwashing

The environmental activists allege the oil and gas producer is misrepresenting its emission reduction efforts because it relies on carbon offsets.

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  • Angela Macdonald-Smith

July 2023

Rishi Sunak:

Sunak to expand UK’s North Sea drilling and carbon capture

The issue has become politically divisive, with the UK prime minister insisting that Labour’s plan for a moratorium on new exploration makes no sense.

  • George Parker

January 2022

A nuclear power plant in France. France has asked for nuclear power to be included in the so-called “taxonomy” by the end of the year.

‘Licence to greenwash’: EU draft on nuclear and gas financing slammed

Draft European Union plans that would allow nuclear and gas energy to remain part of the bloc’s path to a climate-friendly future came under immediate criticism.

  • Raf Casert and Kirsten Grieshaber

November 2021

Technicians maintain a wind turbine in Bernsdorf, Germany.

Will Germany’s ‘debt brake’ stop its green ambitions?

Germany’s designated next chancellor, Olaf Scholz, says green initiatives will be the ‘biggest industrial modernisation of Germany in more than 100 years’. Who will pay for it all, though, is another question.

  • Katrin Bennhold and Melissa Eddy
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A solar panel installation in central China’s Shanxi Province.

Climate fight hinges on China’s $US6.5trn green investments challenge

The world’s biggest polluter faces a Herculean task making the transformation from coal and other fossil fuels to renewables.

  • Edward White
Rivian is valued at around $US100 billion after its opening day on Wall Street.

World’s biggest IPO: Rivian surges to over $100b on debut

Amazon-backed electric vehicle maker was valued more than $US130 billion, becoming the world’s biggest initial public offering this year.

  • Noor Zainab Hussain and Ben Klayman

October 2021

Democrat Carolyn Maloney, chairwoman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, announced the subpoenas at the close of a hearing in which energy industry chiefs were grilled over climate.

Democrats to subpoena Big Oil in climate deception probe

Members of US Congress concerned about climate change questioned executives of top oil majors and trade groups under oath for the first time.

  • Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner

September 2021

ASX companies have been put on notice about greenwashing.

Greenwash warning to ASX companies relying on offshore credits

An adviser to Australia’s biggest traded companies warns too much reliance on offshore carbon credits without real cuts to emissions is becoming an investor ‘red flag’.

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  • Jacob Greber
Wang Yi and John Kerry.

Tensions threaten fight against climate change, China warns US

The Biden administration is calling for Xi Jinping’s government to boost its efforts towards cutting carbon emissions.

  • Edward White

August 2021

Ashjayeen Sharif is running for AGL’s board.

This coal-hating 18-year-old uni student is running for AGL’s board

Ashjayeen Sharif is vying to join the executive team of Australia’s largest carbon emitter, saying: ‘I’m confident I could do a better job.’

  • Jack Derwin

November 2020

A wind farm off the coast of Whitstable on the north Kent coast in England.

Replacing Liddell with renewables cheaper, cleaner and reliable

Investment aligned with the NSW renewables road map will be a cheaper and lower-emissions option to replace AGL's ageing coal-fired power plant than gas, research shows.

  • Elouise Fowler

October 2020

One glaring exception in the rapid carbon neutrality deadline trend is Australia, which has a big, carbon-polluting, mining industry.

Climate wars evolve into a contest of targets

The central message of a series of new books on climate change is that Canberra is running out of time to set a date for net zero emissions.

  • Andrew Clark

July 2020

Shinjiro Koizumi: “There was a lot of reporting in Japan about just how much criticism we got over coal."

Japan vows to slash financing of coal power in developing world

Japan’s environment minister has hailed a 'turning point' in his country’s climate change policy after vowing to slash its much-criticised support for coal power in the developing world.

  • Robin Harding

March 2020

Fracking will continue "for a while" said Michael Bloomberg.

Voters mock Michael Bloomberg's promotion of gas as green

Fighting coal was supposed to lift the presidential hopeful, but his embrace of natural gas has caused him to be labelled a '#climateDenier and a hypocrite'.

  • Lisa Friedman
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February 2020

The delicate art of debunking conspiracy theories

Countering beliefs in which people are emotionally invested in their beliefs, requires a nuanced approach.

  • Cass R. Sunstein
The Keating government considered then rejected a carbon tax in 1995, because it would undermine its “no regrets” policy,

The great climate crack-up

The global warming debate is polarised because the left hugs trees and the right hugs coal. A compromise sounds simple: an energy policy that cuts emissions at the cheapest cost to the economy.

  • Matthew Warren

May 2019

Greenpeace activists occupy Sydney Harbour Bridge

Greenpeace activists scale Sydney Harbour Bridge

'Australia is facing a climate emergency right now' the protesters say as the country goes to the polls on Saturday.

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