October 2024
Why we have launched a greenwashing complaint about Qantas
Taking a more scientific approach to carbon targets is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Qantas to serve its customers and rebuild trust in its brand.
April 2024
The incredible plan to refreeze the arctic
A new start-up is fighting climate change by thickening ice in the Arctic.
December 2023
COP28 pledges and realities
Whatever the outcome in Dubai, the world will end its reliance on fossil fuels not to a political timetable but only when reliable, affordable replacements are a reality.
November 2023
Albanese opens borders in landmark ‘climate refuge’ deal with Tuvalu
The prime minister has unveiled Australia’s most significant treaty with a Pacific nation that encompasses a climate visa as well as a security guarantee.
Treasury aims to regulate sustainable-investment product labelling
The recommendation is one of several outlined in a strategy paper, which also flags higher disclosure requirements for super funds.
September 2023
Energy needs a contest of ideas, not a rigid central plan
A single-minded path and the dogmatic pursuit of impossible targets lacks the flexibility this vast transformation will demand.
August 2023
Canadian ‘leftie’ says nuclear is good for the climate and unions
The controversial energy capacity will help transition high-paying coal jobs and revitalise local manufacturing, says a progressive Canadian advocate.
Careful harvest of native forests is key to carbon capture
There is no rational reason to shut down native forestry – and a big bonus in carbon sequestration.
May 2023
Target the big-emitting regions to speed up decarbonising
Most hard-to-abate industries are clustered together in specific places. We should make them a priority for CCUS projects.
March 2023
Frustration and factures as Greens play game of climate chicken
With time running short, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen is sounding increasingly frustrated with the Greens.
Letters: IPCC shows safeguard mechanism isn’t enough
IPCC’s latest warning; energy usage; carbon credits; AUKUS and SA education; student levels; critical minerals; ‘wokeness’; Keating’s Domingo claim.
Australia must build on its advantages in carbon capture
Australia’s gas industry is better placed than most to take advantage of carbon capture and storage.
Denmark hopes to pump some climate gas beneath the sea floor
An international consortium says Project Greensand in Denmark’s North Sea will be the world’s first cross-border carbon storage project.
January 2023
What the Kardashians can teach climate activists
We need to remember human beings are apes, not angels. Our brains are wired for stories.
December 2022
Westpac defends customers and its bankers from greenwashing risk
Westpac is front-running the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute, releasing its own taxonomy for sustainable finance it hopes will inform national debate.
October 2022
Scrapping carbon capture funding a ‘giant step backwards’
The government’s decision to strip $250 million from carbon capture technology makes it “virtually impossible” to reach net zero, industry claims.
September 2022
ANZ urged to push top 100 emitters harder on transition
Analysts have called on ANZ and other banks to be more explicit about how they judge customers’ net-zero plans.
Defence looks to hydrogen to fulfil ambitious climate goal
Climate change is adding to the nation’s security challenges, incoming brief for government reveals.
Green groups dob in Glencore for ‘greenwashing’
Green groups have made a complaint against Glencore for potentially “misleading and deceptive” conduct linked to statements on the firm’s carbon emissions cuts.
August 2022
What a triple La Niña this summer may cost (in four maps and a graph)
More floods could hit already-devastated communities this summer as the Bureau of Meteorology warns a rare, triple La Niña may be on the cards. Is it time for people to move?