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Australian Conservation Foundation says about 729,000 tonnes of CO2 above agreed industrial limits went unpenalised Nearly one in five of Australia’s big polluting industrial sites increased greenhouse gas emissions above government-set limits last financial year, an analysis of official data shows. It found 38 of the 210 mines, smelters, refineries and other industrial facilities covered

When we set out two years ago to write a book on radical uncertainty, and when we delivered it last year and agreed on a publication date of 5th March 2020, we did not know—how could we have known?—that the world would at exactly that time be plunged into radical uncertainty by a radically uncertain event.

Bank pledges to align all of its financing activities with goals of Paris climate agreement Barclays has bowed to investor pressure over its climate track record and announced plans to shrink its carbon footprint to net zero by 2050. The bank, which has its headquarters in London, has pledged to align all of its financing

Proposals criticised amid fears countries may use coronavirus crisis to rein in commitments Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Japan has laid out its plans to tackle greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris agreement in the run-up to UN climate talks this year, becoming the first large economy to do so. But

The annual Australia’s Environment report finds last year’s heat and drought caused unprecedented damage Record heat and drought across Australia delivered the worst environmental conditions across the country since at least 2000, with river flows, tree cover and wildlife being hit on an “unprecedented scale”, according to a new report. The index of environmental conditions

A city more reliant than most on oil and gas reserves hopes to profit from a shift to net zero Aberdeen is one of the few cities in the world where your taxi driver is almost guaranteed to know the global market price for oil. It is the second week of March in the capital