Climate
Insurance premiums driven higher by higher catastrophic risk
A new study has shown the dramatic impact of climate risk on skyrocketing homeowners' insurance prices
Introducing ‘payments to destroy’ under national nature laws – lessons ignored from the NSW scheme
Everyone agrees the current laws are failing, but that doesn’t mean any change is an improvement. When it comes to offsets, it’s clear things are going to get worse not better.
Australia’s big climate win – stopping Korean coal mines
One of the big announcements at last week’s UN climate talks in Brazil was that the South Korean Government has committed to phasing out coal-fired power by 2040.
Ed Husic on the money: gas industry profiteering is costing Australians
Ed Husic’s ‘breaking ranks with Labor’ speech in parliament yesterday which claimed gas exporters are profiteering from Australians and driving up domestic energy prices, is right on the money and well backed by the data.
Northern Australia is extraordinary, and it’s under severe threat
Right now, this region, is under siege, in large part due to insatiable corporate and government desires to ‘develop’ the North.
Timeline: How Australia’s failed COP bid overshadowed our climate action failure
Why did Australia, the world’s second-largest exporter of fossil fuels by emissions, want to host COP?
COP failure delivers a billion dollar opportunity to finally deliver for Pacific family
New analysis of Australia's foreign aid spending recommends a more direct way to help our Pacific neighbours, following the failure to win the right to host next year’s COP climate talks.
