Climate Analytic News Today

Who should pay for climate-related destruction will be a contentious topic at COP28, and a new analysis shows that "carbon majors" have offloaded trillions of dollars of harm to the public while raking in trillions of dollars of benefit for shareholders.

WASHINGTON (November 14, 2023) – Global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C are failing across the board, with recent progress made on every indicator — except electric passenger car sales — lagging significantly behind the pace and scale that is necessary to address the climate crisis, according to the State of Climate Action 2023 report. 

The latest report concludes that the proposed Beetaloo Basin project could produce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 11 per cent of Australia's 2021 emissions.

Newspaper endorses CEO Meg O’Neill’s position the company’s gas is needed to keep the state’s lights on but doesn’t mention the climate crisis

Record profits for coal companies shouldn’t be reported on without the necessary climate context.

Chevron's carbon capture disaster, Woodside's Browse climate bomb and now the Perdaman fertiliser plant - WA has blown the Safeguard Mechanism

The federal government’s “landmark” climate change legislation package – 43 per cent reduced emissions by 2030, underpinned, allegedly, by a safeguard mechanism (SG) to keep polluters on track – faced collapse last week after the Greens made their support conditional on stopping new coal and gas mines. Explaining their stance, Greens leader Adam Bandt said the new mines would pretty clearly jeopardise the 2030 target: “you cannot put a fire out by pouring petrol on it.”

Hearing into Labor’s changes to the scheme told a 75% reduction in methane was possible using commercially competitive existing technology

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) -- More than 100 world leaders are about to discuss a worsening problem that scientists' call Earth's biggest challenge, yet

More than 100 world leaders are about to discuss a worsening problem that scientists’ call Earth’s biggest challenge, yet observers don’t expect much from it, maybe not even a lot of attention