Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Chris Bowen

The safeguard mechanism: Australia’s emissions trading scheme in all but name

From the time it was created, the mechanism has been subject to obfuscation. Labor is about to try and make it work, but it won’t be smooth sailing

The Guardian - AU

Free carbon credits could threaten Australia’s emission reduction targets, Labor’s advisers warn

RepuTex says safeguard mechanism could hand free credits to big industrial polluters and lock in fossil fuel production

The Guardian - AU

Australia is pushing to host a Cop meeting – if successful it would be forced to ramp up climate action

Winning the 2024 climate talks could pressure Australia to rejoin the Green Climate Fund, increase its 2035 emissions target, and ditch new coal and gas developments

The Guardian - AU

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Diesel cars get the flick in Fed govt's electric vehicle transition

Federal government pushes ahead with changing its fleet to electric vehicles

The Canberra Times

Australia should aim for net zero by 2040, new Climate Change Authority member says

Exclusive: Prof Lesley Hughes, a climate specialist appointed this week, says current target is not good enough

The Guardian - AU

Hydrogen powerhouse to lead energy future

One of the world's biggest renewable hydrogen plants will be built in Western Australia's Pilbara as economies move to replace fossil fuels and cut emissions.

AAP

Emissions standards to drive EV uptake

Australia could become a car manufacturing superpower in the electric age if it takes advantage of the skills and resources available, a Tesla executive says.

AAP

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Labor overhauls Climate Change Authority to counter concerns of excessive business influence

Albanese government appoints three women with environmental backgrounds to board

The Guardian - AU

Australian parliament passes first climate change legislation in a decade

Labor’s climate bill has passed both houses of parliament with support from the Greens and key crossbench senators

The Guardian - AU

Australian Senate backs 43% greenhouse gas reduction by 2030

Australia’s Senate has voted to ensure the government’s elevated target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 43% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade is enshrined in law

The Independent UK

Clean energy exports at 'lightning speed'

Australia will shoot well beyond an electricity grid powered by 82 per cent renewable energy in its quest to be a clean energy superpower.

AAP

Barnaby Joyce says Labor has changed the law on fuel emissions standards. Is that correct?

Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce says the government has changed the law on fuel emissions standards. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

ABC News

Australia urged to ‘pull its weight’ on climate despite praise for Albanese ‘step-up’

Ban Ki-moon and Laurence Tubiana say greater ambition needed as climate bill debated in Senate

The Guardian - AU

Climate bill set to pass after key crossbencher pledges support

Independent senator David Pocock has agreed to back the Albanese government's pivotal climate bill – but has flagged he might sink future efforts.

The New Daily

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Industry bosses making money from carbon credits say system needs to change

Some of the biggest players profiting from Australia's carbon market speak out for the first time, backing expert analysis saying the system is generating meaningless credits that actually result in Australia's emissions going up.

AAP

Data shows rise in Australian emissions

Greenhouse gases increased by 1.5 per cent in the year to March, but Chris Bowen says the country is now on track for emissions reduction.

Newcastle Herald

Chris Bowen says Kurri gas project will proceed

The controversial $1.3billion Hunter Power Project at Kurri will go ahead as planned, Paterson MP Meryl Swanson said.

The Guardian - AU

Labor is sending mixed messages on energy – and some of it sounds like climate denial

The release of vast new areas along the Australian coast for oil and gas exploration is undermining proclamations about creating a cleaner economy

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Snowy Hydro boss Paul Broad says fallout with Chris Bowen contributed to resignation

Paul Broad says he is disappointed to be leaving Snowy Hydro after falling out with Chris Bowen over a gas plant in the NSW Hunter Region.

Newcastle Herald

The public must be told why Paul Broad has resigned from Snowy Hydro to government silence

Paul Broad and Labor's hydrogen plan

Newcastle Herald

Snowy Hydro chief Paul Broad resigns over Kurri power plant vision

Snowy Hydro chief executive Paul Broad has sensationally resigned following a falling out with energy minister Chris Bowen over the government's vision for the $1.3billion Hunter Power Project.

Newcastle Herald

Snowy Hydro chief executive resigns over Kurri gas plant

It is understood Mr Broad recently expressed his doubts about the viability of introducing green hydrogen into the project to the minister.

The Conversation

The road to new fuel efficiency rules is filled with potholes. Here's how Australia can avoid them

Last week, federal Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen officially put fuel efficiency standards on the national agenda, saying the measure would reduce transport emissions and encourage electric vehicle uptake.

Newcastle Herald

It's a gas - Kurri green hydrogen vision still a way off

The federal government has backed away from a promise that 30 per cent green hydrogen will be used to fuel the Hunter Power Project at Kurri when it begins operating late next year.

The Guardian - AU

Electric vehicles: four things that will help Australia shift gears after a ‘decade of denial’

Here’s what we learned from the first national EV summit

1 … 26 27 28 29

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department of Finance

41 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.