Australia is one of the world’s largest producers of single-use plastic waste. It is also among the countries leading the increasingly troubled treaty negotiations to ban it.
As Victoria moves to end native logging, the status of salvage clearing is still unclear and protesters are strategising to reduce their risk of heavy penalties.
Australia is on track to meet its 2030 climate targets – but new accounting of methane could substantially change that, by more accurately assessing underreported emissions.
A day after he filed a piece on climate protests for The Saturday Paper, Western Australian police raided Jesse Noakes’s office – part of a larger crackdown on critics of mining in the state.
In Western Australia, the pursuit of anti-Woodside climate protesters by the government and police echoes crackdowns in other states, where democratic rights are being trampled.
Australia’s new electric vehicle policy still hasn’t set fuel efficiency standards. While further consultation may suit the car industry, the delay risks putting the country’s net-zero goal out of reach.
The collapse of the country’s main soft-plastic recycler exposes vast hidden stockpiles of waste, and leaves supermarkets tasked with curbing the millions of tonnes of plastic that ends up in landfill each year.
The closure of a major paper mill is an opportunity to end logging in native forests, which would spare both the environment and significant public funds. So why the reluctance to transition to plantation timber?
