Environment
Climate change
Ten retrofits to protect homes against flood, fires, heat and cold
A NSW program will provide scientifically proven advice on how best to protect homes against climate change and extreme weather.
- by Julie Power
Latest
Victorians care about the environment. Here’s how the parties stack up
This is the first state election where both major parties in Victoria have agreed we should cut emissions by 50 per cent. So what are the rest of their policies?
- by Miki Perkins
Success came at the end of COP, but that depends on what you wanted from it
Those determined to secure a fund to pay the poorest for climate damage will consider the sometimes bitter talks in Egypt to have been a resounding success.
- by Nick O'Malley
Opinion
Climate policy
This so-called ‘implementation’ climate conference felt like anything but
There is a huge cognitive dissonance between messages of hope at COP27 and the reality of our fossil fuel sector.
- by Nicki Hutley
Historic deal struck to help poorer countries pay for climate catastrophes
Negotiators early on Sunday approved a historic deal that would create a fund for compensating poor nations that are victims of extreme weather worsened by rich countries’ carbon pollution.
- by Seth Borenstein, Samy Magdy and Frank Robson
Breakthrough nears on landmark climate deal for poor countries
Days of tense bargaining between wealthy and developing nations yielded a proposal to set up a fund to benefit countries coping with irreparable damage from severe storms, floods, droughts and wildfires.
- by Kate Abnett, Shadia Nasralla and Gloria Dickie
Developed or developing? China question divides COP27
Chris Bowen met with his China counterpart in Egypt for the first ministerial level meeting between Australia and China in five years. Negotiations dragged into the night.
- by Nick O'Malley
Analysis
Paris Agreement
Fairness and finance: At COP27, Australia stands in the middle of tense climate talks
There is a brutal and simple dynamic at play here in Sharm el-Sheikh at the 27th United Nations Conference of the Parties.
- by Nick O'Malley
‘Rivers bleed out over the landscape’: Behind the lens documenting NSW’s floods
These images give a glimpse of the birth and growth of a flood disaster that I fear has not peaked in its ferocity or scale.
- by Nick Moir
‘Imprecise, inaccurate, ludicrous’: Egypt dismisses accusations of spying at climate talks as distraction
Human rights allegations that have simmered in the background burst onto centre stage at the Egyptian climate talks.
- by Nick O'Malley
Analysis
Paris Agreement
A global sigh of relief as China and US sit down to talk climate
Without the world’s two heavyweights onboard, climate talks have been losing momentum.
- by Nick O'Malley