Emissions
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
Latest
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
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
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
Why is everyone talking about nuclear energy?
Australia’s leaders are divided on how to power our energy future. What’s really up for debate?
- Hannah Hammoud and Nick Toscano
- Exclusive
- Energy
Victoria eyes new bans on appliances to get homes off gas
Victorians would be forced to replace broken gas heaters and hot-water units with electric versions from as early as 2026 under the state government’s favoured plan.
- Nick Toscano, Kieran Rooney and Mike Foley
- Exclusive
- Paris Agreement
Renewables surge shows Australia can meet ambitious 2035 reductions
The UK has promised to cut emissions by 81 per cent by 2035. The Climate Change Authority is considering how much more we could do.
- Bianca Hall and Nick O'Malley
- Opinion
- Climate policy
In our block of flats, the majority was hung out to dry
A fraction shy of 75 per cent of the vote supported our right to put a clothes-drying rack on our balconies. That wasn’t enough. Strata law needs to change.
- Vaidehi Shah
Australia’s thin silver lining in Trump’s dark clouds for climate action
Donald Trump’s return could cause global climate policy chaos and slow the pace of emissions reduction. But there’s a ray of hope for Australia.
- Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
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