Climate Change

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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Forecast temperature and wind at 4pm AEST on Friday, August 30.
Health
Georgina Noack

Millions of Aussies to be hit by ‘scorching end to winter’

The Bureau of Meteorology warned we were in for a ‘scorching end to winter’ even before monthly heat records toppled at the weekend. And it’s not stopping anytime soon.

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But the end of Earth’s streak of excessively hot temperatures does not diminish the mounting threat of climate change.
Society
Christopher Merchant

Earth’s record heat streak has ended, so what now?

Global warming has consistently toppled records for warm global average temperatures in recent decades, until now. But the end of this streak does not diminish the mounting threat of climate change.

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The world’s largest iceberg, named A23a, near Antarctica in April 2024.
World
The New York Times

Why is the world’s largest iceberg spinning in the ocean?

Five times the size of New York City’s land area and more than 300 meters deep, the mammoth piece of ice finally became loose in 2020, and now it is ‘spinning around’.

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Australia’s climate lobby groups have gone nuclear, and not in a good way, writes Andrew Carswell.
Political
Andrew Carswell

Bullies become bullied as climate lobby groups get banned

ANDREW CARSWELL: For the second time in a few weeks, the Australian Conservation Foundation’s X account was suspended for breaching the rules that determine what is factual. Their reaction has been hysterical.

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AMEC's Warren Pearce, CME's Rebecca Tomkinson and CCIWA's Aaron Morey outside Parliament House ahead of the hearing.
Mining
Adrian Rauso

Business groups slam Nature Positive laws in fiery hearing

Australia’s businesses are increasingly united against Federal Labor’s radical environmental law reforms, with one lobby group boss stating job opportunities will be whittled down to taxis and cafes.

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Shadow Energy Minister Ted O’Brien (left) and current minister Chris Bowen (right) are squaring off on both sides’ differing power policies.
Australia
Ellen Ransley

Pollies’ power struggle heats up as energy divide deepens

Both Labor and Coalition heavyweights have reignited the climate debate amid raging rhetoric on renewables and nuclear energy.

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The Warren Pearce-led industry group emphasised there would be “severe implications” for new mining projects.
Australia
Simone Grogan

How ‘severe’ Nature Positive laws could cripple mining

The Association of Mining and Exploration Companies has argued the furore about a lack of consultation on Nature Positive has masked real concerns from industry about the contents of the contested reform.

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A report from conservative think tank IPA has revealed how much a climate trigger could cost the Australian economy.
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Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

Eye-watering economic cost of climate trigger revealed

A climate trigger would put more than $220 billion worth of economic investment at risk, according to new research from conservative think tank IPA.

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nature legislation run by faceless bureaucrats
Australia
Dan Jervis-Bardy

ALP’s nature watchdog will be ‘unaccountable, secretive’

The proposed Federal nature watchdog risks being an expensive, bloated bureaucracy that is unaccountable and highly secretive, a conservative think tank has warned.

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The Minerals Council of Australia says industry confidence is being stifled by the “ever-present threat” of a climate trigger.
Australia
Katina Curtis

‘Ever-present threat’: Miners sound alarm on climate trigger

A climate trigger is looming as an ‘ever-present threat’ that is stifling industry confidence as the Government revamps environmental laws, the nation’s peak mining body has warned.

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A spokeswoman for Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek did not rule out introducing a climate trigger when quizzed by The Nightly, but suggested it was not on the table imminently. 
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Mining
Adrian Rauso

Climate trigger warning on green tape

Federal Labor is considering adding new layers of bureaucracy to its ‘Nature Positive’ reforms, reigniting concern the industry battle with Anthony Albanese and his team over the policy is far from over.

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DAVID KOCH: Our digital footprint is worse than flying when it comes to carbon emissions.
Opinion
David Koch

Why your mobile phone is to blame for the nuclear debate

DAVID KOCH: Our digital footprint is worse than flying when it comes to carbon emissions.

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UNESCO has told Australia to ramp up its climate change targets if it wants to save the Great Barrier Reef.
Climate Change
Tracey Ferrier

‘Serious threat’: UNESCO warns Australia over Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef needs urgent and sustained action to save it from the impact of climate change and other threats, UNESCO has told Australia.

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