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  • Hopes dashed as global fossil fuel emissions increase in 2025

    Hopes dashed as global fossil fuel emissions increase in 2025
    Nov 14 2025
    For the second straight year, emissions from fossil fuels rose by slightly more than one per cent. Scientists at the COP30 climate conference in Brazil say it's one of the smallest in recent non-pandemic years - but it means efforts to curb warming global temperatures by getting fossil fuel emissions to stop rising are still not meeting targets.
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  • At COP30, Indigenous leaders demand greater powers to protect their land.

    At COP30, Indigenous leaders demand greater powers to protect their land.
    Nov 12 2025
    Indigenous leaders in the Amazon are urging leaders at the UN Climate Summit to empower First Nations people to protect their land and rainforests. As world leaders gather in the Amazonian city of Belem, pressure is on to go beyond words and ideas and start implementing meaningful policy.
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  • 'Deadly negligence': Stern warning issued as COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil

    'Deadly negligence': Stern warning issued as COP30 climate summit opens in Brazil
    Nov 7 2025
    Leaders are gathering in Brazil for the UN COP30 Climate Summit as the United Nations declares the world will not meet the 1.5 degree warming limit set in 2015. With 2025 set to be one of the warmest years on record, the most vulnerable small island nations are pleading for stronger action.
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  • Advocates flag 'make or break time' for planet as COP30 begins

    Advocates flag 'make or break time' for planet as COP30 begins
    Nov 6 2025
    This year's global climate summit - COP30 - is being hailed as the most significant in ten years, with experts describing it the "make or break decade" for action on global warming. But doubts are being raised about whether enough can be achieved.
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  • Three free hours of power under new plan - or is it?

    Three free hours of power under new plan - or is it?
    Nov 4 2025
    Australians in three states are to be offered three hours of free electricity in the middle of the day, under a scheme to share abundant solar energy harvested in non-peak hours. The plan has been welcomed by environmental groups, but some in the Opposition are unimpressed.
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  • INTERVIEW: Graeme Samuel tells SBS why he endorses the government's environmental bill

    INTERVIEW: Graeme Samuel tells SBS why he endorses the government's environmental bill
    Oct 31 2025
    The author of the review that triggered the government's environment reforms has fully endorsed Labor's nature legislation. Professor Graeme Samuel has told SBS the bill implements the 'totality' of the recommendations he made in his report, five years after it was delivered. The Greens and Coalition have objected to the bill, with Greens leader Larissa Waters describing it as 1400 pages gift-wrapped for big business. But Professor Samuel says environmental groups and business interests alike had substantial input into his report, and their desires were fully taken into account in the recommendations. He's been talking to SBS chief political correspondent Anna Henderson.
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    13 m
  • Government introduces environment laws to Parliament - but hurdles remain

    Government introduces environment laws to Parliament - but hurdles remain
    Oct 30 2025
    Australia's most significant environmental law reform in decades has been tabled in Parliament, but it faces immediate political deadlock with opponents in the Senate ready to delay the vote. As Minister Murray Watt pushes for a swift resolution, he must navigate an environment where both the Coalition and the Greens are demanding major concessions on accountability, climate, and industry protection.
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  • Climate tipping points being crossed, scientists warn

    Climate tipping points being crossed, scientists warn
    Oct 14 2025
    A large white coral reef containing important species and fossil traces has been discovered at a depth of more than 500 metres in the Gulf of Naples, in a rare discovery for the Mediterranean. But a new report suggests reefs like this might already be in danger, with global warming crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected and the world's coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off. It marks what scientists are describing as the first tipping point in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.
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