Reneweconomy

Scott Morrison has said, tens of times this year, that he’d like to reach net zero emissions by 2050……’preferably’. Here’s the thing: when you prefer something to happen, you often act like you prefer it to happen.

ABC News

Proponents of the world's largest renewable energy project are facing a significant hurdle, with the federal Environment Minister rejecting plans for a WA hub.

The Canberra Times

The federal Greens will on Monday attempt to force the Senate to vote on a bill that would penalise states and territories that enact taxes on electric vehicle users.

WAToday

The West Australian government has spent almost $7 million and 10 years on a plan that promised to safeguard Perth’s environment while providing land for housing, then quietly shelved it.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Sometimes sheer bloody-minded politics overrules hard science. A good example is Deputy Premier John Barilaro’s “brumby bill”, passed by the NSW Parliament three years ago.

The Australian

Under-promise and over-deliver is Scott Morrison’s climate change creed. At the G7 summit last week, he changed the popular narrative on climate change from globalist theory to practical action, signing three agreements on low-emission technologies and creating goodwill with democracies in Asia and Europe. The summit was an economic and foreign policy success that put Australia in the lead on climate change pragmatism. At home, all Labor could do was beg the authority of G7 leaders and pray for the Prime Minister’s failure.

The Canberra Times

Never has there been a greater need for passionate, tireless Landcarers. As the country faced drought, devastating bushfires, floods and the impacts of a global pandemic, volunteers have continued to deliver support, care and comfort to Australian communities and local environments.

The Conversation

Wild elephants are awe-inspiring — even if they’re trying to kill you, as I discovered in 2004.

Australian Geographic

This is the only animal in the world known to incorporate iron into its exoskeleton. It builds its shell out of the stuff, and even its soft, fleshy foot is covered in thick iron plates like a medieval knight.

The West Australian

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has written to Anthony Albanese urging the Opposition Leader to support measures to cut environmental red tape that is putting at risk major mining projects.

ABC News

Australia's Foreign Minister says it is "sensible" to work towards reaching net zero emissions as soon as possible.

The Sydney Morning Herald

The state government’s plan to spend almost half a billion dollars in a bid to ensure that by 2030 half of all new cars sold in the state are electric has won an odd but loud chorus of praise.

The Guardian

Australia sees a high-profile show of political backing for gas even as world leaders and investors exert pressure to shift away from fossil fuels

The Australian Financial Review

A defence of coal chief Mark Vaile’s appointment as Newcastle University chancellor, posted on the staff intranet by current chancellor Paul Jeans, was viewed by the equivalent of the university’s entire workforce within 48 hours of it appearing.

The Age

In January 2020, investment titan and Blackrock boss Larry Fink rocked the corporate world by using his yearly letter to the CEOs of large listed companies to call on groups to disclose their environmental credentials alongside a key global standard.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Major Australian energy generators are driving up electricity costs by not generating extra power when demand surges thereby creating price spikes, according to a complaint made to the government competition watchdog.

The Conversation

Australia’s top economists overwhelmingly back government measures to speed the transition to electric cars in order to meet emission reduction targets.

ABC News

Every year, 40 per cent of West Australia's massive Kimberley region burns.

The Australian

Global warming has progressed so rapidly that action is needed to refreeze the melting Arctic, a new group of influential scientists says.

The Sydney Morning Herald

On a recent wintry morning, farmer Paul Porter surveyed a dying stand of grey box trees lining Mirrool Creek that meanders 15 kilometres through his “Mywurlie” property near Booligal in the NSW Riverina.

ABC News

A Sydney council has forced major supermarkets to take action after clamping down on dumped trolleys — making thousands of dollars in the process.

The New Daily

In the modern world, the food we eat and the beverages we down contribute to climate change.

The Guardian

The ‘new energy economy’ unfolding all around us is once again hostage to Australia’s gruesome, internecine climate change politics

The Mercury

The government is lauding the state’s fifth consecutive year of net-zero carbon emissions, but an environmentalist group says the figures show the state’s leaders are “greenwash fakers”.

The Canberra Times

The recent end of Victoria's fourth lockdown should have allowed residents to breathe a sigh of relief, but many people immediately found themselves facing another massive challenge: wild, dangerous weather.

The Canberra Times

At her recent address to the National Press Club, Environment Minister Sussan Ley disputed a Federal Court ruling that she has a duty of care to protect children against future injury from climate change.

Yahoo News

The IMF on Friday issued a report calling for the world's top polluters to adopt an international carbon price floor, arguing it offered a "realistic prospect" to combat climate change.

The Australian

Flooding at the Yallourn coal power station southeast of Melbourne has put a spotlight on the lack of backup in the power system.

ABC News

Footage of a threatened desert marsupial has been captured in outback Queensland for the first time in a decade, ecologists say.

ABC News

After two catastrophic cyclones in three years, the village of Drue faces a life-changing decision.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Dams will fill less frequently, farmers will face water cuts and rivers will cease flowing more often in areas across northern NSW as the climate warms and dries, putting at risk communities and wildlife alike.

Yahoo News

Unless climate change can be greatly minimized, rising temperatures will disrupt food production around the world and potentially alter the way we eat, a new study finds.

The Australian

Sussan Ley has warned the NSW government she is considering intervening to force the state to tackle the ballooning wild horse population.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Water Minister Melinda Pavey’s office has intervened in a stink over a plan to put an industrial-sized odour control unit in the middle of a much-loved bushwalking track in Sydney’s inner suburbs.

The Mercury

Animal welfare is “a priority” for the state government, says the Primary Industries and Water Minister, after shocking images emerged of seals injured near aquaculture operations.

The Australian

Our only hope is to make renewables cost less than fossil fuels, but as China powers ahead, the West blows it on climate doublethink.

The West Australian

As pressure from climate change activists and investors grows, energy companies have to convince their critics they have a future in a decarbonising world.

Yahoo News

Japan's central bank on Friday announced its first investment fund for efforts to address climate change, as the government works towards its new target of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.

The Conversation

Last week’s storm system wreaked havoc across Victoria. Some 220,000 households and businesses lost power, and residents in the hills on Melbourne’s fringe were warned yesterday it might not be restored for three weeks.

Reneweconomy

EnergyAustralia says it hopes to have repaired the cracks in the Morwell River diversion wall at the Yallourn mine by the middle of next week, and will tonight deliver its proposal to the Victorian government on how it plans to divert the river while work is under way.

The Age

For those in the picturesque Dandenong Ranges, it felt as if the whole mountain was shaking. In Gippsland, it was worse than a cyclone.

ABC News

Armed with a search warrant, Italy's police wildlife unit entered the house of a suspected cactus trafficker, finding over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile's Atacama Desert in a locked room.

ABC News

Researchers have urged the New South Wales government to support sea urchin harvesting along the South Coast as a way of boosting the economy and controlling the environmental pest.

Australian Journal of Pharmacy

Australia will face recurring episodes of widespread bushfire smoke and its associated health impacts unless governments tackle climate change and support communities and health systems to respond, according to an international report released by the Global Climate and Health Alliance.