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Beyond net-zero: we should, if we can, cool the planet back to pre-industrial levels

Image: Marc Pell/Unsplash The world’s focus is sharply fixed on achieving net-zero emissions, yet surprisingly little thought has been given to what comes afterwards. In our new...

Labor has introduced its controversial climate bill to parliament. Here’s how to give it real teeth

Image: Lukas Coch/AAP Early Wednesday, the federal government introduced its hotly awaited climate change bill to parliament. Despite the attention and controversy it’s attracted, the proposed...

Time’s up: why Australia has to quit stalling and wean itself off fossil fuels

Image: Getty If the world acts now, we can avoid the worst outcomes of climate change without any significant effect on standards of living. That’s...

IPCC finds the world has its best chance yet to slash emissions – if it seizes the opportunity

Image: Shutterstock The world has its best chance yet to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, but hard and fast cuts are needed across all sectors...

2021 – Adieu: Welcome now to 2022

It would be difficult to describe the year of 2021 as anything but difficult, challenging and pretty bloody awful! Mind you, it is easily arguable...

Labor’s 2030 climate target betters the Morrison government, but Australia must go much further, much faster

  Image: Lucas Coch/AAP The Labor opposition has pledged to reduce Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 43% this decade based on 2005 levels, claiming the...

Australia’s biggest fossil fuel investment for a decade is in the works – and its greenhouse gas emissions will be horrifying

  Image: Shutterstock The controversial Scarborough gas project off Western Australia will cause a substantial rise in greenhouse gas emissions at a time when the...

Where to find courage and defiant hope when our fragile, dewdrop world seems beyond saving

  Image: Marc Pell/Unsplash The COP26 climate conference in Glasgow is over. Despite some progress, deep concerns remain about the outcomes. The final pact at least mentions...

COP26: it’s half-time at the crucial Glasgow climate change summit – and here’s the score

  Image: EPA The first week of the United Nations climate talks in Glasgow has drawn to a close. While there’s still a way to...

5 major heatwaves in 30 years have turned the Great Barrier Reef into a bleached checkerboard

  Image: AP Just 2% of the Great Barrier Reef remains untouched by bleaching since 1998 and 80% of individual reefs have bleached severely once,...
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