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Labor has improved Australia’s emissions pledge on the one Scott Morrison took to Glasgow, but observers say it will still have questions to answer

The last time world leaders got together for a climate summit, the backdrop was thoroughly menacing. A pandemic had decimated national budgets. Poor countries were up in arms over the hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines by the same wealthy nations whose fossil fuel consumption did most to warm the planet. Relations…

Climate scientists say the new spending package that President Biden just signed will trim future warming a bit

The PM spruiked the myth that Australia’s ‘quality’ coal was relatively clean – following in the footsteps of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison

Woodside’s gas processing facility in Western Australia’s Pilbara region attracts 759 appeals against it, up from the previous record of 170

Most major countries are finding that it's easier to promise to fight climate change than to actually do it

A massive Woodside gas project approved in the Western Australia will contribute to damage to the Great Barrier Reef, conservation lawyers will argue.

Climate scientists are warning now is not the time to back big new gas developments, as the new Albanese government throws its support behind Woodside's mega Scarborough gas projects.

New dash for gas driven by energy disruption and rising prices spurns warnings to cease exploration to meet 1.5 heating limit

‘Clean’ hydrogen and carbon capture and storage head list of funding pledges since net zero promise

Custodians of petroglyphs in remote north-west say Woodside’s $12bn ‘carbon bomb’ spells disaster for culture and climate