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Australia's Productivity Commission has urged governments to make climate change a top consideration in water policy with severe droughts and floods set to increase.

The Daily Telegraph

Millions of dollars poured into making the water market more transparent by NSW is being undermined by other states failing to crackdown on dodgy irrigators.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia will push back against Britain’s bid to use the world’s most exclusive leaders’ summit to establish climate tariffs, arguing the sanctions would be a new form of “protectionism” designed to shield local industries from free trade.

The Guardian

Europe will urge Australia to increase its 2030 emission reduction pledge in the lead-up to this year’s Glasgow climate conference, with the EU ambassador in Canberra saying all countries should embrace “more ambitious and emboldened” policies.

NT News

A NEW multimillion-dollar federal government grant program is set to help regional hotel and motel owners reduce their energy bills while creating work for tradies.

The Australian Financial Review

London | A proposed £165 million ($294 million) coking coal project in northern England, backed by Melbourne mining veteran Owen Hegarty, has blown up into a major test of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s climate credentials.

The Guardian

Right now the government is utterly hamstrung on the issue of climate change. After more than a decade of obstruction and doing the least possible, the rest of the world is changing fast and the debate in Australia needs to get real.

WAToday

Two major projects expected to blow a million tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in their first year were approved days before the West Australian government entered pre-election caretaker mode amid a COVID-19 lockdown.

Energy Matters

Western Australia’s largest and newest solar farm will provide around half of all of the energy needs at mining giant BHP’s West Kwinana refinery, it has been announced.

Reneweconomy

A major new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggests India is headed for significant growth in solar power that may end up overtaking coal as the largest source of power within coming decades.

The Conversation

In December, Antarctica lost its status as the last continent free of COVID-19 when 36 people at the Chilean Bernardo O'Higgins research station tested positive. The station’s isolation from other bases and fewer researchers in the continent means the outbreak is now likely contained.

ABC News

When Felicity Moran steps out onto her Tweed Heads lawn of an evening, she has to watch where she stands.

ABC News

Brumbies have been roaming a North Queensland island for generations, but now there are calls for a sustainable management plan.

The Guardian

A tsunami warning for New Zealand and Australia’s Lord Howe Island, sparked by a 7.7 magnitude undersea earthquake near New Caledonia, has been cancelled.

ABC News

As rescue workers continue the hunt for survivors following massive floods in the Indian Himalayas, scientists have been busy collecting swathes of data to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.

ABC News

The global increase in ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon-11 (CFC-11) emissions, which was first detected in 2013 and continued to rise in the following years, appears to have been halted.

Architecture and Design

A 29-year-old Kenyan woman is turning discarded plastic into paving bricks, successfully addressing the growing problem of plastic waste in her community while creating a sustainable and affordable alternative building material for the construction industry.

News.com.au

Steve Irwin’s son Robert is forging his own career documenting wildlife as an award-winning photographer.

Mumbrella

Mumbrella invites the industry’s creatives and strategists to offer their views on the latest ad campaigns. This week: The Hallway's Tim Mottau and Host Havas' Shaun Thomson give their verdict on Special Group's first work for Bonds, telco Felix's advertising debut, Coopers' new brand platform and Palmer's finding the formula.

Yahoo News

Moscow was bracing Wednesday for record snowfalls over the weekend, as weather experts predicted a record-breaking "snow apocalypse" in the Russian capital.

Reneweconomy

Members of the federal government backbench have gleefully leapt on a new report from their favourite conservative think thank that sensationally claims that entire regional townships will be “devastated” by stronger emissions reduction targets.

Reneweconomy

Australian exports could be slapped with a carbon tax of as high as $140 per tonne, under a new plan endorsed by the European Parliament – due to the unambitious climate policies adopted by the federal Coalition government.

News.com.au

Scott Morrison has “dared” car manufacturers to leave with Australia on the cusp of a lucrative electric vehicle (EV) renaissance, Anthony Albanese says.

The Courier Mail

Queensland Senator Matt Canavan says Australia needs to focus on manufacturing over climate change to boost jobs and ensure national security.

The Australian Financial Review

Coal is under threat, regardless of what domestic climate change policies Australia adopts, and coal miners and their communities are owed honesty by their political leaders, shadow climate minister Chris Bowen says.

ABC News

Tasmania, already well behind national and international targets for protecting marine areas, has no plans to lift a moratorium on new reserves, says the State Government.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The National Party is ignorant, misleading and divisive on climate change – and, to its peril, woefully out of touch with its constituency, the “wonderful people”, as leader Michael McCormack calls them. He means the farmers, many of whom would be hurt by the Nationals’ attempt to exclude agriculture from any commitment – still only a “preference” for Prime Minister Scott Morrison – to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

ProBono Australia News

The newly-launched Coal Impacts Index is an example of powerful teamwork from separate organisations acting together to achieve a common goal for the good of the country, writes David Ritter.

The Fifth Estate

When the coronavirus pandemic began, individuals and members of community groups sprang into action. Without the need for coordination from the local authorities or national governments, people instinctively knew how to support each other.

The Courier Mail

A Queensland professor and climate sceptic has taken his sacking to the High Court, claiming academic freedom is at stake.

ABC News

Australian agriculture industry bosses have vowed to continue efforts to lower carbon emissions from farming, despite an opposing push by the federal Nationals to have agriculture excluded from any net zero emissions target.

The Sydney Morning Herald

AGL, Australia’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, is also the most prolific violator of environmental regulations for coal-fired power plants, collecting twice the rate of breaches as its market share in NSW and Victoria, analysis shows.

The Advertiser

Billionaires Sanjeev Gupta, Andrew Forrest and Gina Rinehart are backing a push for a new Adelaide ‘green steel’ research hub that would create hundreds of jobs.

Reneweconomy

As countries and companies continue a widespread global shift away from denial and inaction on climate, a new question is coming to dominate discourse: What’s the pathway?

The Fifth Estate

A year ago, Microsoft announced it was undergoing a massive commitment to operating carbon negative by 2030. So, how’s it going?

Reneweconomy

Plans to build a massive 400MW wind farm on a ridge outside the former gold-mining town of Nundle, 50km south of Tamworth, have hit rocky ground after they failed to win the support of the local council and even inspired a new anti-renewables acronym: NINE, or “Not in Nundle, Ever!”

Drive

Hundreds of online rally goers are contacting their local members to dispute the new EV tax.

Pedestrian

Australia Might Just Get A Night Curfew For Cats And Good Fkn Luck Trying To Enforce That

ABC News

Authorities are investigating how a koala found on a golf course in south-west Victoria was so seriously burnt and in distress it later had to be euthanased.

The Advertiser

The Adelaide City Council’s Team Adelaide faction has failed to pass a motion to remove potentially killer gum trees from the city and Prospect.

Reneweconomy

The number of global deaths caused by fossil-fuel related air pollution could be much larger than originally thought, with new research finding that as many as one-in-five deaths globally could be attributed to the use of coal, gas and oil.

Reneweconomy

The last carbon capture and storage (CCS) coal plant in the United States, the Texas-based Petra Nova, will shut down indefinitely from June after operators deemed it no longer economic.

Yahoo News

Some people are utterly confused by Hungry Jack’s new lid, which eliminates the need for a straw.

Food & Drink Business

Construction has begun on Circular Plastics Australia PET, the $45 million joint venture between Asahi Beverages, Pact Group and Cleanaway Waste Management that was announced in August 2020.

Yahoo News

A waste campaigner in NSW has called for more action after a “disturbing” discovery in her local park.