COP26

oil drilling

Just days after US President Joe Biden called global warming 'an existential threat to human existence', the US proceeded with the nation's largest-ever auction of oil and gas permits, reports Kenny Stancil.

Queensland Nationals Senator Matt Canavan's聽鈥渘et zero is dead鈥 campaign should hardly come as聽a surprise, argues聽Binoy Kampmark.

2022 Durban floods

Patrick Bond and Mary Galvin report on the recent catastrophic floods in Durban,聽which have exposed the Cyril Ramaphosa聽government鈥檚 criminal negligence and failure to take action on climate change.

PM Scott Morrison said Australia would achieve net zero by 2050 鈥榯he Australian way鈥. It is聽pure spin, argues Petrina Harley.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been promoting 鈥渃an do capitalism鈥 when Australia needs policies that treat all equally, argues Stuart Rees.

A public forum on the failure of the COP26 climate summit with John Molyneux and Sarah Hathway.

COP26 made it聽pretty clear that Australia is ruled by, and on behalf of, sociopaths who are confident they聽will get a place on the escape space shuttle out of here when聽things turn to shit, argues聽Sam Wainwright.

The climate science says we are running out of time to avoid climate catastrophe聽but, as Friends of the Earth聽says, this COP26 did not deliver what was needed.

COP26 identified the worst polluter culprits,聽ranking聽Australia worst in the world for climate policy.聽Gideon Polya looks at why.

Greta Thunberg told the massive Fridays for Future rally in Glasgow that the聽COP26聽climate summit was a 鈥渇ailure鈥 because global聽leaders were refusing to commit to real action. Alex Bainbridge argues the bright spot is the leadership coming from the streets.

Political leaders聽continue to ignore the consequences of their inaction, but history will judge them poorly and we will not accept it, argues聽Greta Thunberg.

Earth on fire. Artwork: Cristian Ibarra/Pixabay.

There was a dangerous underestimation of the scale of the climate crisis we face at COP26,聽argues聽David Spratt. Targets for 2025 and聽2030 need to be the focus.