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By 2030, climate change will make one in 25 Australian homes “uninsurable” if greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated, with riverine flooding posing the greatest insurance risk, a new Climate Council analysis finds.

Sydney (AFP) - Fiercer floods, winds and bushfires whipped up by warmer temperatures mean more than half a million homes in Australia will cost too much to insure by 2030, according to an analysis by a climate advocacy group published Tuesday.

The chance to limit warming to 1.5C is slipping away. But will difference will it make if we overshoot by half a degree or so?

The federal government has "overwhelmingly" failed on climate action over its three terms in charge, a new report by the Climate Council finds.

Renewable energy's social licence could be at risk if community concerns aren't addressed, says Climate Council councillor.

The ongoing floods in Queensland and New South Wales are on track to be one of Australia's worst-ever natural disasters, a Climate Council report says, linking the destruction to climate change.

The Climate Council says thousands more Australians now have lived experience of a climate system that has been super-charged by global warming.

Organisation urges all political parties to outline concrete steps on how to prepare for inevitable climate-fuelled disasters