Reneweconomy

The federal Coalition government’s gas-led transition plans have again been questioned, this time by the Australian Energy Market Operator, which says overall gas consumption is likely to fall over the next 20 years and may virtually disappear in the grid over the next 20 years because it can’t compete with renewables or green hydrogen.

ABC News

Environmentalists have raised concerns about how Pardoo Beef Corporation made large donations to the major political parties in WA while seeking a land clearing permit in the East Pilbara region.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The state government’s 10-year environmental record includes not only landmark successes in climate policy, but also vast land clearing and the memory of dead fish.

The Australian

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, a fresh reason not to drill for undersea oil and gas has been dredged up by the Greens.

The Australian Financial Review

Insurer Youi believes NSW-Queensland flooding will likely fuel higher costs for its own reinsurance protection, constraining margins and potentially triggering higher customer premiums.

Food & Beverage

Confectionary brand Ferrero has announced the achievement of their 2020 goal which sees the company sourcing 100 per cent of their cocoa sustainably. This was achieved through utilisation of certification bodies and independently managed standards such as Fairtrade and Rainforest Alliance (UTZ).

The Guardian

Renewable energy and batteries can secure Australia’s electricity grid as effectively as coal and gas, new research suggests.

The Australian Financial Review

Green hydrogen has to be included in the mix if we are going to consider net zero - and we are at a nascent stage of demand.

The Australian Financial Review

Wind and solar projects continue to snare the bulk of new energy investment as Australia makes the inevitable transition to a low-emissions economy.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The risk of near-term gas shortages in south-eastern Australia has eased, with a new import terminal expected to counter the effect of a faster-than-expected output drop in ageing Bass Strait fields, the Australian Energy Market Operator said in its annual forecast.

The Australian Financial Review

Wind and solar will lead Australia’s renewables charge as the nation prepares to change its energy mix, experts say.

Reneweconomy

A fascinating duality is emerging for Australia’s power sector. Easily the country’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, Australia has simultaneously become a global leader in renewable energy deployment and has also remained one of the worst countries in the world in terms of reliance on coal-fired power. It is a strange, fascinating combination.

The Conversation

Despite early forecasts of a COVID-driven slump, house prices are now surging in many parts of Australia. This is further widening the gap between the housing “haves” and “have-nots”, and we are seeing related rises in housing stress, rental insecurity and homelessness. In Australia and elsewhere a movement has emerged that supports tiny house living as an important response to the housing affordability crisis.

ABC News

Residents concerned they will be affected by aircraft noise from the Western Sydney Airport have complained they still have not seen draft flight paths, five years after the project was approved.

Yahoo News

Varroa destructor is a deadly stowaway that Victorian port authorities are determined to keep away from the state's bee population.

The Conversation

It’s official: Australians endured the coldest, wettest summer in at least five years thanks to La Niña, a climate phenomenon over the Pacific Ocean.

News.com.au

A handful of Extinction Rebellion protesters are lucky to be alive this morning after a Sydney driver, furious at being stuck, almost hit them.

CMO

A long-term commitment to environmental and social principles has led Vege Chips to forge a three-year partnership with the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital in its home location on Australia’s Gold Coast.

Travel Weekly

Scandinavian countries are the most sustainable for tourism in the world, according to a recently released sustainable travel index, which ranks the 99 most sustainable tourism destinations.

7 News

Hail storms will be more severe and more frequent in Australia because of climate change, an international study led by a University of NSW researcher has found.

ABC News

A $500 million package to help deal with the problems facing the Great Barrier Reef has been announced by the Federal Government.

ABC News

Environmentalists are calling on the state government to protect Exmouth Gulf from industrialisation to protect marine life and safeguard the region's tourism sector.

Yahoo News

Top crude exporter Saudi Arabia on Saturday unveiled a sweeping campaign to tackle climate change and reduce carbon emissions, including a plan to plant billions of trees in the coming decades.

Yahoo News

Britain's government is scrapping a flagship green homes scheme introduced just over six months ago, which was aimed at upgrading homes in England with better insulation and low carbon heating.

The Canberra Times

When it comes to climate policy, Australia talks big talk. A month out from US President Biden's global climate summit, the hot air is rising as our Prime Minister pushes for Australia's climate track record to be vindicated by his international counterparts.

The Sydney Morning Herald

On the last Sunday in March in 2011, NSW woke to a new government. After 15 years in opposition the Liberal-National Coalition had walked into office with a record-breaking swing. “Bloodbath. Barry O’Farrell leads Coalition to historic wipeout of Labor” was how The Sun-Herald’s front page summed it up that morning.

The Australian

Royal Dutch Shell PLC bet big on natural gas as the energy source of the future when it bought BG Group for US54 billion. Five years later, it appears the gas era wont last long.

The Guardian

Instead of waiting for the government to step up, hotels, Airbnb hosts and other operators are installing micro EV chargers

The Age

Victoria has powered its electricity grid with 50 per cent renewable energy for the first time, well ahead of state government projections for the transition to clean energy.

ABC News

Tonnes of food scraps collected from restaurants and supermarkets are being converted into electricity under a green energy initiative powering thousands of homes in Perth.

ABC News

As Australia baked through one of its worst summers on record last year, more than 200 endangered grey-headed flying foxes died during the January 2020 heatwave in Bendigo's Rosalind Park.

The New Daily

The fate of Australia’s critically endangered regent honeyeater might hinge on how many young birds learn the specie’s particular love song – and the other melodies that have been handed down from generation to generation.

ABC News

Southern Queensland farmers say a lack of data could leave them without recourse if a new $10 billion coal seam gas scheme causes their productive cropping land to subside.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Severe rainfall of as much as a metre within a week has prompted state-owned Forestry Corporation to trigger insurance provisions to allow it to halt most of its logging and timber supply operations on the NSW North Coast.

ABC News

What does it mean when a natural disaster is described as a "one-in-50-years" or "one-in-100-years" event? Well, not what most people think and that has to change, according to a leading risk assessment expert.

The Guardian

Thinking a higher wall will stop flooding could leave governments, businesses and homeowners unprepared for ‘the inevitable big one’, an expert says

ABC News

Ted Books admits his memory isn't what it used to be, after all, he's 86. But there's one thing the Sydney man can recount without skipping a beat — floods.

The Guardian

Seven townships around Hawkesbury River remain evacuated as SES warns flood water can contain sewage, debris and dead animals

The Advertiser

Stopping food from going into landfill and banning more throwaway items like coffee cups should be among our next steps to tackle waste, the outgoing Green Industries chief says.

SBS World News Australia

Landmarks around the world switched the lights off for an hour to mark Earth Hour, a movement that started in Sydney in 2007.

The Age

Popular Mexican food chain Guzman y Gomez is bucking the national trend and vowing never to offer fake meat on the menu.

The Guardian

Cairns event sees 120 traditional owners and scientists share insights on tackling heatwaves, rising seas and species deaths

The Sydney Morning Herald

Washington: Prime Minister Scott Morrison is among 40 leaders invited by the Biden administration to a high-powered climate change summit in April, a meeting designed to spur a raft of ambitious new carbon reduction pledges from global leaders.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The Greens would demand a minority Labor government commit to producing seven times more energy than current levels, solely from renewables, and invest more than $20 billion in generation, storage and transmission as part of any future power-sharing agreement.

The Sydney Morning Herald

NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean wants to “turbo charge” the uptake of electric cars in the state and believes a road user charge for them should not be introduced until they make up a substantial proportion of the national fleet.

The Age

Tenterfield farmer Bronwyn Petrie says her insurance premiums have increased by around 20 per cent since last year and now she no longer insures parts of her farm because it’s too expensive.

ABC News

Australia's $2 billion water market needs a major overhaul, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

The Guardian

In the second half of last year, while most of the world was in pandemic lockdown, Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest and a team of 50 staff did what others couldn’t. He spent five months crisscrossing the globe in a private jet, visiting more than 40 countries.

ABC News

Verge gardens are springing up on public land outside homes, with surprising benefits, including forming friendships between neighbours.

9 News

Experts are warning NSW residents to be on the lookout for killer funnel-web spiders, after heavy rain combined with warm weather creates an ideal environment for the creatures to thrive.

ABC News

On a mushroom enthusiasts' page on social media, a would-be forager posts an image of a mushroom they've recently unearthed, now sitting on a chopping board.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Climate modes, scientists and the insurance industry agree Australia will be hit by more disasters, prompting debate over how and where we live.

ABC News

Some say the Warragamba Dam wall needs to be raised to help prevent the devastating floods seen in Sydney this week — but there is a cost upstream too.

ABC News

Are you in the habit of letting your engine idle? It is a question dividing motorists as a campaign grows to reduce vehicle emissions.

7 News

Protesters have chained themselves to machinery and buildings, blocked intersections with coffins and clashed with police in a series of rallies across Australia which have caused peak-hour chaos.

ABC News

After the blistering heat of summer, many welcomed March 1 as the start of autumn's cooler nights and mild days.

ABC News

Australia's $2 billion water market needs a major overhaul, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

The Age

A $40 million promise to buy back water entitlements from irrigators for First Nations groups is in doubt after the Morrison government confirmed it was considering spending some funds on non-water assets.

Reneweconomy

The Morrison government has moved to seize greater control of the $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility (NAIF), with amendments passing the house of representatives that gives ministers greater influence over how it invests its funds.

The Sydney Morning Herald

This week’s flooding disaster is a grim reminder that climate change not only has a devastating physical and social toll, it is also a big deal for the financial system.

Reneweconomy

Iron ore billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has detailed his company’s plans to produce the world’s lowest cost green hydrogen and green ammonia via a potential pipeline of 1000 gigawatts of renewable energy assets, in a speech to analysts he said aimed to herald “massive change.”

The Age

As a young boy, Joseph Schubert was terrified of spiders. “My parents always told me every single one would kill me, so I was a bit of an arachnophobe”.

ABC News

The Environmental Protection Authority [EPA] has laid $34 million worth of charges against a man it says owned a toxic waste dumping site in Victoria.

The Conversation

Pretty soon, many more Australians are going to be composting their food waste. The Victorian government kicks off its four-bin system from this year, and the federal government is considering a plan to turn kitchen scraps into fertiliser for farmers.