Central banks helping funnel trillions of dollars into fossil fuels despite climate pledges
Theodore Whyte (Resilience 26 August 2021) argues that central banks across the world are being less than honest about pledges to pull out of the…
Environment
The climate crisis is an accelerating calamity of our own making
So what would it take to turn things around? Lesley Hughes is a professor of biology at Macquarie University and a spokesperson for the Climate…
Climate crisis report puts reality about climate on centre stage
Contributed by Joe Montero The world has just received the strongest wake up call yet on the threat of the climate crisis. It comes in…
Europe’s flooding shows climate solutions must be driven by people power
Lesley Rankin is a researcher at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). She wrote the following article (Open Democracy 28 July 2021), and argues…
There is a corrupt association between the government and Beetaloo fracking company
Contributed by Ugly We all knew there was something crook when Scott Morrison bragged about a gas led economic recovery last year. Export earnings were…
Today’s weather events and other factors show that we are running headlong into crisis
Contributed by Joe Montero A single unusual weather events does not provide proof of a climate crisis. The simultaneous rise of a series of such…
Queensland police backtracking over First Nations camp at Adani site
Contributed by Ben Wilson Adrian Burragubba of the Wangan and Jagalingou traditional owners, who is leading the battle to stop the Adani Carmichael coalmine at…
European Union enshrines net zero and emissions targets into law
This article published by CNN Wire (28 June 2021) is about the new carbon emissions reduction policy adopted by the European Commission. The target is…
The UN is moving to list the Great Barrier Reef as threatened by global warming
Contributed by Jim Hayes United Nations officials have begun moves to put Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on the UNSCO list of “in danger” world heritage…
The Morrison government is trying to walk away from protecting Australia’s environment
Contributed from Queensland The Morrison government is trying to push through legislation to weaken Australia’s environmental law, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999….
