Following the Albanese government’s commitment to an ambitious net zero plan it announced Saturday a $40 million investment for kerbside electric vehicle charge points.
Rachel Fenner
Australia has no chance of meeting its new 2035 emissions reduction target unless environmental approval laws are overhauled and quickly, the resources and renewable energy sectors have warned.
Katina Curtis
Labor still bears the scars of the ‘carbon tax’ skirmish in the climate wars, so Anthony Albanese is moving more warily into the fray this time. But the political climate has changed over the past 15 years.
Australia’s new emissions reduction target is on the lower end of what serious climate watchers wanted, but it’s still going to be a hard slog to reach it.
The Federal Government will commit to Australia cutting emissions by between 62 and 70 per cent on 2005 levels by 2035 under its updated Paris agreement target.
The Federal Government’s damning National Climate Risk Assessment has painted a bleak future for South West WA with farming communities and the environment on the frontline
Craig Duncan
Chris Bowen is trying not to scare the pants off voters completely, while also scaring them enough to understand why Australia needs to significantly shift the scale and speed of its actions to cut emissions.
Anthony Albanese has rejected suggestions approving a major gas project off WA will jeopardise Pacific relations and declared he will ‘act in Australia’s interests’ despite criticism from Vanuatu.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Chris Bowen is caught between business warnings Australia cannot afford an emissions target much above 70 per cent and an internal Labor push to make that the baseline.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has sent a blunt warning to a group of Australians that do not agree with the Albanese Government’s renewables rollout, saying he is blocking out their ‘noise’.
Max Corstorphan
A growing number of Liberals want the party to land a climate and energy policy sooner rather than later amid fears the internal debate risks ripping the Coalition apart and further alienating voters.
Western Power is investigating the viability of using street lights to charge electric vehicles in the city.
Oliver Lane
Mining giant Rio Tinto will need to ‘experiment’ with green steel, slashing diesel and backing renewable power to drive down emissions, local iron ore boss Matt Holcz said.
Matt Mckenzie
In a bid to find solutions to the cockatoo crisis, local governments, conservation champions and wildlife experts have gathered for a think tank.
Chris Bowen has accused Andrew Hastie of being out of step with his electorate and undermining his own leader after it emerged households in Canning are WA’s top adopters of home batteries rebates.
The first-ever study comparing the cost of running electric vehicles and petrol cars has thrown up some eye-opening results.
Kim Macdonald
Heated conservationists are calling out an “embarrassing” inclusion in the State Budget, as WA continues to spend more money on starting fires than fighting them.
Water Corporation has unveiled infrastructure changes to a major South West water supply as the climate crisis sees reduced rainfall in the region.
Anthony Albanese has defended his Government’s call to extend Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project to 2070, saying gas is essential as the country shifts to renewables.
Roger Cook has warned Western Australia’s emissions may rise to allow the world to reach net zero targets as he stepped back from previously proposed legislation for a 2050 target.
Oliver Lane and Dylan Caporn
Andrew Forrest was in Perth on Thursday, the morning after Donald Trump put a 90-day pause on his sweeping global tariffs that sent global markets into meltdown.
Simone Grogan
As experts warn of rising heatstroke risks, could this Perth-developed patented cooling vest be the life-saving tool needed for high-risk environments such as mining?
Liam Murphy
Regional West Australians could be in for more jobs and a stronger economy if a huge zero-emission energy project on the Nullarbor goes ahead, a sustainability expert says.
Jessica Antoniou
A controversial plan for an offshore wind farm off the coast of Bunbury is being revved up by Federal Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen, despite Premier Roger Cook suggesting other options would be quicker.
Jessica Page
