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Emissions have flatlined since the government was elected, due in part to a bounce back from the pandemic.

Fact check: Have emissions risen under the Albanese government?

Emissions reduction has flat-lined since the government was elected, due in part to a bounce-back from the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Mike Foley

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Emil Davey, Matilda Lane-Rose and Jesse Noakes outside Perth Magistrates Court on Monday following their sentencing.

‘Killing our future’: Activists cop thousands in fines for protest at Woodside boss’ home

Protesters have been slapped with thousands in fines after a protest that upped the stakes in the environmental opposition to Woodside’s operations in WA’s north.

  • Jesinta Burton
Steve Blore was the pin-up boy for Climate Friendly. Until the rules changed.

‘Parasites’, ‘cowboys’: The carbon companies dividing rural Australia

Carbon developers descended on rural Australia 10 years ago promising big money and an easy fix to complex problems. Today, farmers are crying foul.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Michael Bachelard
Using mulga forests to save carbon is under fresh scrutiny.

Dust and dead trees: The reality of Australia’s biggest carbon saver

The nation has made a multibillion-dollar bet that carbon locked in desert scrub will offset emissions elsewhere, but doubters - from scientists in the city to the farmers on the land - are growing.

  • Michael Bachelard, Charlotte Grieve and The Visual Stories Team
The industry group representing property owners has expressed concern about the integrity of the carbon offset market.

One hundred ‘carbon-neutral’ corporates quit government scheme over integrity concerns

Mounting doubts that carbon offsets may not stand up to scrutiny have driven an exodus from the federal government-managed system.

  • Michael Bachelard
Santos’ Moomba carbon capture and storage project in South Australia.

Why Japan’s power plants want to bury their emissions in the outback

The start-up of a giant project to bury carbon dioxide in the desert has given Santos greater confidence as it progresses talks with Japan’s big emitters.

  • Nick Toscano
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Penny Nelson recently bought a Toyota Rav 4 hybrid vehicle.

They’re cleaner and greener, so why won’t the government give hybrids tax breaks?

Australians bought 172,696 traditional hybrids – which have a diesel or petrol engine as well as an electric motor – last year, up 76 per cent on 2023.

  • Mike Foley
Electric vehicle sales have slowed.

Cost-of-living crisis meets new era of electric cars

Customers are voting with their wallets and continuing to buy more clean cars despite a tougher economic outlook.

  • Mike Foley
To breed Hilda scientists took an egg from an immature cow and transferred it to a surrogate animal for birth

Meet Hilda, the calf bred to fight climate change

The calf is the first of Britain’s scientific herd conceived using IVF to accelerate the breeding process to cut methane emissions.

  • Rob Harris

New rules to bring more and cheaper EVs to Australia

Australia joins every other developed economy – except for Russia – by imposing fuel efficiency standards.

  • Mike Foley

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