Forests on the North Coast are earmarked for a national park to protect “the best patch of koala habitat in the world”,but the area is still being logged in epic proportions.
Professor Ian Chubb led the review of Australia’s lucrative carbon credits market and he’s far from happy with the conduct of a government agency at the middle of it.
Fossil fuel producers are buying large stakes in carbon companies and land to run their own carbon offset projects. Experts and insiders want that banned.
Hundreds of pages of previously confidential material reveal the regulator responsible for managing billions of dollars in taxpayer funds,as well as millions of carbon offsets,has serious governance issues.
Removing carbon from the atmosphere to save us from climate change is a controversial notion,but faith is growing in some new technologies.
On paper we can offset our way to net zero. In the real world,we cannot.
Alasdair MacLeod was regularly escaping to the country with his young family when he realised something was going horribly wrong there – and needed a radical solution.
In their own polite way,Professor Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims this week spoke out against the blatant self-interest of our fossil fuel industry.
Cabinet documents reveal the Howard government went close to supporting a carbon price in 2003. They also show why it was killed off.
Australia’s largest business lender has said it is inevitable banks will charge higher interest rates for businesses that aren’t reducing their emissions.
Europe’s new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism,which will tax the carbon intensity of imports,went live on Sunday.