Climate Change

Heatwave conditions have cooled in some parts of Australia but are expected to persist in others. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)
Climate Change
Adrian Black

Summer rain, heatwaves signal perils of extreme season ahead

Australia's summer weather perils have arrived with heatwave conditions in the south and heavy rain forecast in the north.

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Critics say fossil fuel giants must return capital to shareholders rather than increased production. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)
Energy
Marion Rae

Call for super funds to pump gas giants for change

An analysis of the way some of the biggest superannuation funds vote at shareholder meetings suggests they're backing down over the expansion of oil and gas.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has personally intervened to kill off a Nature Positive deal with the Greens.
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Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Inside ‘secret’ EPA deal that Anthony Albanese killed off

Anthony Albanese personally intervened to kill off a deal his environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, was trying to make with the Greens over a proposed Federal EPA. Here’s what went down behind the scenes.

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek and Greens environment spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young are in talks to reach a deal on Nature Positive laws.
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Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

WA peak bodies urge PM to kill off EPA deal

Labor and the Greens are edging toward a shock deal to create a new Environment Protection Agency as they look to pass the bill in Federal Parliament’s frantic final sitting week of the year. 

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Countries have clinched a deal to inject $US300 billion annually to combat climate change and help poor nations cope with the impact of global warming.
Climate Change
Kate Abnett, Valerie Volcovici and Karin Strohecker

COP29 clinches $US300 billion climate compromise deal

Countries have clinched a deal to inject $US300 billion annually to combat climate change and help poor nations cope with the impact of global warming.

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Asked when his Government would announce a 2035 target, Albanese replied: “Sometime next year.” 
Opinion
Andrew Carswell

Voters won’t get a say on climate. But they’ll pay the price

ANDREW CARSWELL: Do Australians want to address climate change? Yes, of course. Duh! Do they want to pay for it? Pass the peanuts. Now they actually know they’re paying for it. They feel it. 

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Extreme weather events are pushing up insurance costs beyond what some households can afford.
Politics
Poppy Johnston

Aussies giving up key protections in cost-of-living crunch

More than two-thirds of parents are worried about rising insurance costs pushed higher by climate change.

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Tanya Plibersek and how The Nightly covered the Nature Positive legislation.
Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Green agenda on brink of collapse as Federal election nears

Labor’s hopes of delivering its green agenda are fading as it grapples with a legislative backlog months out from the next Federal election.

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Britain has urged Australia to have ‘greater ambition’ as it weighs up its next steps on climate policy, as experts warn the Trump presidency will make that even more crucial.
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Climate Change
Ellen Ransley

Australia urged to show climate leadership by UK, experts

Britain has urged Australia to have ‘greater ambition’ as it weighs up its next steps on climate policy, as experts warn the Trump presidency will make that even more crucial.

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Tanya Plibersek insists environment talks are ongoing with the Greens and the Coalition despite the Opposition saying there has been “stunning silence”.
Australia
Katina Curtis

‘Silence’: Plibersek insists environment talks still ongoing

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek insists she is still in talks over the Government’s planned environmental watchdog despite the Opposition warning there has been ‘stunning silence’ on the legislation.

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BoM has warned Australians to brace for the upcoming ‘severe weather season’ and prepare their homes, properties, and emergency plans.
Australia
Hayley Taylor

Cyclones, thunderstorms and heatwaves: ‘Severe’ weather warning issued for Australia

Australia could be staring down some of the most severe weather in history in the coming months.

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Environment Minister will tout her Government’s Natura Positive laws at a summit despite them stalling in Canberra.
Australia
Ellen Ransley and Dan Jervis-Bardy

Plibersek in nature positive push as laws stall in Canberra

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek will use this week’s global green summit to tout the Government’s ‘really good progress’ in turning Australia nature positive, as Labor’s green agenda remains in doubt.

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek and opposition spokesman Jonathon Duniam.
Climate Change
Ellen Ransley and Dan Jervis-Bardy

Labor touts nature positive talkfest despite failing agenda

Tanya Plibersek will use this week’s global green summit to tout the Government’s ‘really good progress’ in turning Australia nature positive — despite Labor’s environmental agenda teetering on the brink.

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Anthony Albanese was forced to defend Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek (pictured) over the Government’s controversial Nature Positive law negotiations.
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Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Ellen Ransley

Stalemate could torpedo centrepiece of Nature Positive plan

Greens leader Adam Bandt won’t relent on a ‘climate trigger’ as Labor scrambles to salvage the Nature Positive Plan and Anthony Albanese denies he made a captain’s call on the controversial laws.

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Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has dropped demands for a ‘climate trigger’ in negotiations with the Albanese Government on the proposed Nature Positive laws.
Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Greens drop ‘climate trigger’ demand in Nature Positive laws

The Greens and independents are offering an alternative path for Labor to pass laws to create its Environmental Protection Agency.

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