Consultancy firm McKinsey was paid $1.6m over 11 weeks to “inform” and “guide” Australian energy and climate policy, despite its work for the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies. The firm, whose…Continue readingMcKinsey paid $1.6m to ‘guide’ Australian climate policy despite working for fossil fuel companies
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Australia’s richest person has won community backing to open a coal mine in Canada following a bitter five-year battle punctuated by allegations that the fossil fuel lobby secretly backed citizens’ groups…Continue readingAustralia’s richest woman wins vote for controversial Canadian coal mine
Protesters formed a “blockade” in the Port of Newcastle on Sunday in the third day of unrest, calling on the federal government to rule out new coal and gas mines and…Continue readingPolice arrest 170 at NSW Rising Tide protest as activists temporarily block coal ships
Australia and Turkey are vying to host COP31, and the Australian government hopes Turkey will exit the race in time for an announcement before next week. The hypocrisy of Australia’s bid…Continue readingClimate criminal Australia competes to host Climate-COP
Azerbaijan’s president has branded oil and gas a “gift from God” as he welcomed delegates to the COP29 climate summit. The president of the oil and gas-rich country argued, as he…Continue readingCOP29 host Azerbaijan brands oil and gas ‘gift from God’
Papua New Guinea’s decision to pull out of an upcoming UN global climate summit due to frustration over “empty promises and inaction”. Prime minister James Marape announced in August the country…Continue reading‘A total waste of time’: why Papua New Guinea pulled out of COP29
The chief executive of COP29 has been filmed apparently agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at the climate summit. The campaign group Global Witness posed undercover as a fake oil and…Continue readingCOP29 CEO filmed agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at climate summit
A plan by climate activists to shut down the Port of Newcastle for 50 hours has been challenged by New South Wales police who have argued in a court challenge against…Continue readingNSW police take legal action to prevent climate activists blockading Port of Newcastle
Since 2016, 21 [US] states have passed a total of 56 laws criminalizing protest or dramatically increasing the penalties for engaging in it. The state of Alabama, for example, can now punish a…Continue readingOutrageous Anti-Protest Laws Can’t Silence the Climate Movement
Biodiversity is declining more quickly within key protected areas than outside them, according to research that scientists say is a “wake-up call” to global leaders discussing how to stop nature loss…Continue readingBiodiversity declining even faster in ‘protected’ areas, scientists warn COP16
Azerbaijan, the host of the COP29 global climate summit, will see a large expansion of fossil gas production in the next decade, a new report has revealed. Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil and…Continue readingCOP29 host Azerbaijan set for major fossil gas expansion
The shipping containers were a familiar sight to the villagers of northern Mozambique’s remote and troubled Afungi peninsula: a dozen steel boxes lined up end-to-end with a guarded gate in the…Continue reading“ALL MUST BE BEHEADED”
The Western Australian government has lifted a ban preventing onshore gas producers from exporting any of their gas. The current WA premier, Roger Cook, said the state needed “a secure supply…Continue readingWestern Australia’s decision to lift gas export ban will drive up emissions, conservationists say
A new international coalition is disrupting airports to make one demand: the adoption of a treaty to end fossil fuels by 2030. Under the banner Oil Kills, small groups of activists…Continue readingOil Kills: Inside the International Uprising Disrupting the Aviation Industry
Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were found guilty last week of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for coordinating direct action protests on…Continue readingFive Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
A rolling series of protests has seen at least 26 people arrested – and more than 200 passenger trains cancelled – over a two-week period. Planned by Blockade Australia, whose protest…Continue readingBlockade Australia plans more climate protests disrupting Newcastle trains, saying disobedience is the only option
An activist with an environmental group campaigning to block a $5bn internationally financed oil pipeline running through Uganda has been released from detention, his employer says. The Environmental Governance Institute (EGI)…Continue readingDetained Uganda anti-pipeline activist released
Authorities in Pakistan ordered schoolchildren in the smog-smothered city of Lahore to wear masks during lessons starting Thursday, an effort to protect against hazardous levels of polluted air. The Punjab state…Continue readingStudents ordered to wear masks in smog-hit Lahore
According to a new paper in Oxford Open Climate Change, the strategies humanity must pursue to reduce climate change will have to include more than reducing greenhouse gases. This comes from…Continue readingResearchers argue that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not enough to combat climate change
The dangerous and destructive myths of conventional economics include the claims that: Since planetary boundaries have already been exceeded and low-income countries must develop, social justice demands that the rich countries…Continue readingSaving humanity: Here’s a radical approach to building a sustainable and just society
The Albanese government will continue to support new fossil fuel projects so long as they “stack up” from an economic and environmental perspective, the federal resources minister says. Madeleine King, in…Continue readingAustralian Federal Government to back new fossil fuel projects that ‘stack up’ economically and environmentally
To understand why it is proving so hard to break up with coal, we worked with an international team of around 35 researchers to investigate the political economy drivers of its…Continue readingMany countries continue to invest in coal
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Labor will not support a moratorium on fossil fuel projects. “That’s not in our policy and we won’t be implementing that policy,” Albanese said. “We…Continue readingAustralian Prime Minister rules out banning fossil fuel projects
INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) announced it has signed a statement of commitment to a net zero emissions future with the government of Australia’s Northern Territory, where the Ichthys liquid natural gas (LNG)…Continue readingINPEX gas company and Northern Territory Government sign statement of commitment to a net zero emissions future
China’s year-old carbon market has given more than 2,000 power plants a taste of emissions trading, but design flaws and data fraud have meant limited large-scale greenhouse gas reductions and environmental…Continue readingA year on, China’s CO₂ market fails to drive big emission cuts
In 2015, French oil giant TotalEnergies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the governments of Uganda and Tanzania, to drill for oil…Continue readingOil drilling to go ahead in Ugandan park despite threat to nature
Deforestation of the Amazon hit a new record during the first half of 2022. Satellite data showed more than 3,980 square kilometers, an area five times the size of New York…Continue readingAmazon deforestation hits six-year high in Brazil
While 425 square kilometres of land lie within the probable maximum flood in the Hawkesbury-Nepean valley, it has also long been identified as fertile for property development amid rising house prices…Continue reading‘Stark raving, barking mad’: experts question the building of homes below ‘worst-case’ flood levels in western Sydney
Under the plans, gas can be classed as a sustainable investment if “the same energy capacity cannot be generated with renewable sources” and plans are in place to switch to renewables…Continue readingEU votes to class gas and nuclear as green
The US supreme court has sided with Republican-led states to in effect hobble the federal government’s ability to tackle the climate crisis. In a 6-3 decision that will seriously hinder America’s…Continue readingUS supreme court rules against EPA and hobbles government power to limit harmful emissions
The outgoing head of Australia’s offshore oil and gas regulator has helped hand out awards to fossil fuel companies, including Santos, Inpex and Beach Energy, prompting criticism the body could be…Continue readingAustralia’s oil and gas regulator criticised after chief hands out environmental ‘excellence’ awards at industry dinner
Background (Nino neutral) global warming (relative to 1880-1920) is now at least 1.2°C (2.2°F) as a result of accelerated warming since 2015. What else is new? Hotspots are getting hotter. The…Continue readingHotter Hotspots, Drier Dryspots, Wetter Wetspots, and Stronger Storms
The Great Barrier Reef, the size of Italy or Japan, is where global heating is a present-day catastrophe. It has suffered three mass coral bleaching events since 2015, killing up to 50% of…Continue readingThe lobbying push that killed off a fight to save the Great Barrier Reef