Climate change

More than three decades after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, no capitalist country has made any serious effort to decarbonise. Alex Bainbridge argues for system change.

Scenes from the Climate Era

Belvoir St Theatre's Artistic Director Eamon Flack on telling the stories and imagining the realities of climate change.

Malaysian socialist Soh Sook Hwa spoke to Isaac Nellist about Malaysian politics and building a political alternative.

As long as we treat the climate crisis as just another political issue and not聽the emergency it is, the more time we lose, argues聽Greta Thunberg.

Australian scientists,聽led by Tim Flannery, want federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek to heed the science聽and聽ensure all assessments of new gas and coal projects are evidence-based.聽Pip Hinman聽reports.

Less than three weeks after saying the rules-based international order allows "sovereign nations to pursue their interests free from coercion鈥, the PM warned the Solomon Islands not to take this idea聽too far, writes聽William Briggs.

The PM has聽announced聽a funding package to boost the koala's long-term protection and recovery efforts. But, as聽Binoy Kampmark聽argues this avoids the two major causes for its population dwindling:聽climate change and habitat destruction through other means.

Former New South Wales magistrate and Kuku Yalanji elder聽Pat O鈥橲hane intends to take her trailblazing attitude to government to force much-needed change in the areas of climate, corruption and social justice.

Pip Hinman argues that Scott Morrison's much-belated conversion to net zero emissions by 2050 is nothing to celebrate.

Extinction Rebellion organised a series of civil disobedience actions in Perth, calling for urgent action to stop climate change. Alex Salmon reports.

The recent avalanche and flash flood in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand was a result of聽climate change and the rapid development of hydro-electric power plants, writes Sarosh Bana.

The bushfire royal commission has acknowledged what activists and聽scientists have been saying for decades: climate change is causing聽catastrophic weather events. Suzanne James argues we have to keep up the fight.