So on Friday while Category 2 Cyclone Alfred drifted near the Queensland coast, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fronted up to a media conference in Canberra with questions on whether global warming is making disasters worse, whether the 2035 emissions reduction targets will be released prior to the election (which is a commitment under the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement, not Australian law) and on ..read more

Sorry Kids... latest research shows that increasing temperatures adding to extreme heat due to burning fossil fuels has a disproportionate impact in killing young people under 35 years. While this research is based on Mexico, it is highly likely it applies more widely, although there will be some caveats.One of the authors of the study, Danny Bressler, said: "The concentration of heat-related ..read more

The International Court of Justice International Court of Justice , CC BY-NC-ND Wesley Morgan, UNSW Sydney and Liam Moore, James Cook University Australia has long tried to be two things at once – a trusted friend to Pacific nations in a bid to reduce China’s influence, and a giant exporter of fossil fuels. This diplomatic ..read more

Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen delivered his third annual Climate Statement to Parliament today.The Government set an interim emissions target of 43 percent emissions reduction by 2030 based on 2005 levels. And in this statement Chris Bowen says that the Government is projected to meet 42.6 percent reduction by 2030, and be able to exceed this target with extra measures to come. To ..read more

The latest Victorian Greenhouse gas emissions report is for 2022 and contains the headline details for Victoria's emissions profile. It was tabled in Parliament by Climate and Energy Minister Lily D'Ambrosio.The report is 16 pages long, and contains considerably less detail than reports from previous years which broke down data more finely and were often over 6o pages in length. So only ..read more

  Kate Dooley, The University of Melbourne Negotiators at the COP29 climate conference in Baku have struck a landmark agreement on rules governing the global trade of carbon credits, bringing to a close almost a decade of debate over the controversial scheme. The deal paves the way for a system in which countries or companies buy credits for removing or avoiding greenhouse gas ..read more

Plastic bottles and Styrafoam in Merri CreekThis is a live page for the next week.The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Global Plastics Treaty is holding its fifth meeting in Busan, South Korea from 25 November to 1 December 2024 to prepare a treaty by the end of 2024. This meeting is it. Global Plastics pollution is an escalating Crisis that interlinks with the ..read more

This year Australia moved backwards two places in the annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI). The national experts cited the still substantial fossil fuel subsidies and policies to incvrease Fossil Fuel production.The report lists 3 key outcomes:Australia drops two ranks in the current CCPI, to 52nd and among the low-performing countriesFossil fuel subsidies have declined and been ..read more

Australia's Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen delivered Australia's national climate statement to COP29 in the High Level Segment Plenary (Resumed).Not a bad statement on some of the changes being made in energy transition and economic transition associated with decarbonisation by Australia, but it is in what was not said that is important. The continued approval of new coal and gas ..read more

Chris Bowen at COP29 Photo: Scott HamiltonThis is a subpage of Australia at COP29 Climate Diary and will be updated throughout the conference. Australia will be represented at the ministerial level at COP29 by Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen. This year a key focus of the UN Climate Conference is Climate Finance, and development of The New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG).&nbsp ..read more