climate change Archives

Issue #1986

Xi calls for stronger global actions on climate change

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called on all parties to take stronger actions to jointly tackle the climate challenge ...

Issue #2004

Fighter jets or green electricity

On 28th March, the government came clean on one of its’ worst kept secrets of the decade when it announced its decision (again) to purchase...

Issue #1981

World on the edge of an abyss: UN Secretary-General

“I am here to sound the alarm: the world must wake up. We are on the edge of an abyss – and moving in the wrong direction.”

Issue #1952

We need a working class climate plan, not capitalist greenwashing

Based on his government’s shiny new climate plan, it doesn’t seem like Justin Trudeau gets irony.

Issue #1959

Xi calls for “unprecedented ambition, action” to build community of life

We should protect nature and preserve the environment like we protect our eyes.

Issue #1975

Tackling the slow death of Mother Earth

Over the period 2010 - 19 the expansion in the dairy industry in the 26-Country state, thanks to the quota restrictions being lifted by the business organisation known as the EU, has resulted in an increase in the land area allocated to dairy farming.

Issue #1991

China is a responsible major country in addressing climate change

Human beings share a common future in the face of the challenges presented by global climate change, and no country can make itself immune from the impact.

Issue #2061

WEASEL WORDS

Vicious No, not the old Lou Reed song. “Vicious” is how how 9 Newspapers describe Paul Keating’s description of Jens Stoltenberg the secretary general of...

Issue #2069

Activists gather as African Climate Summit opens

Hundreds of people gathered for a people’s march on climate in Nairobi on Monday, 4th September, as the first African Climate Summit opened its doors...

Issue #2095

Albanese and Plibersek need to ‘do their jobs’ as Great Barrier Reef suffers ‘underwater bushfire’

New data shows the Great Barrier Reef has suffered through its worst-ever heat stress with more than 80 per cent of reefs enduring dangerous levels...

Issue #2180

Africa climate crisis alert: 1.5ºC limit ‘shattered’

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declared that the Africa climate crisis demands immediate global action, during the opening of the 39th Ordinary Session of the...

Issue #1948

Will we follow our allies this time?

It might be a good idea to return – in January 2022 – to the promises that Joe Biden made on his first day as President of the United States of America on the 20th of January 2021.

Issue #2078

Rushing towards tipping points

A tipping point is a moment when things change so much there’s no going back. Climate tipping points are the critical thresholds at which a...

Papua New Guinea National Parliament, Port Moresby.

Issue #2102

Papua New Guinea: disaster and the hand of capital

The tragic loss of life in the landslide in Papua New Guinea has shown just how pitiably inadequate is the level of infrastructure in the...

Issue #1957

A Cohesive Society After Capitalism

It seems that the capitalist way of living has been with us forever, but it has only come about since early global trading developed around the sixteenth century.

Issue #2054

Wildfires hit Canada

Nearly a million acres have been destroyed in wildfires across the western Canadian province of Alberta, with more than 30,000 people forced to evacuate, and...

Issue #2095

HALF OF THE SKY

In a landmark victory for the working class, a group of Swiss women, united under the banner of KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz (Senior Women for Climate Protection)...

Issue #2102

Don’t use ‘overcapacity’ to harm economic globalisation

For some time, China has been accused of “overcapacity” in new energy products. This kind of hype is unreasonable and just a carefully crafted distraction,...

Issue #1954

The legacy hanging over Fukushima ten years on from disaster

Japan entered into a state of emergency when the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami swept across the country in 2011.

Issue #1990

Australian-UK-US nuclear submarine deal exposes civilian-military links

Andy Stirling and Phil Johnstone, writing for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, highlighted several salient points in their paper, telling us a lot about the thinking of those pushing nuclear energy.

Issue #2104

Guna People of Panama

Climate change in the Caribbean has now forced the Islanders of Gardi Sugdub (Crab Island) to move due to rising sea levels. The residents’ houses...

Issue #2109

Who’s Minding the Farm

Rethinking industrialised farming in Australia Australia’s system of industrialised mass food production requires a total rethink. Patrice Newell, a farmer from NSW, argues that agriculture...

Issue #2110

Slick – Australia’s toxic relationship with Big Oil

How many billion tonnes of CO2 did humanity pump into the atmosphere the year you were born? How about the year your youngest relative was...

Issue #1954

Rallies in Perth push for climate action

The WA Forest Alliance had a busy week, holding their Grand Postcard Delivery Rally in West Perth on Wednesday 10th March.

Issue #1980

Nauru invokes the Law of the Sea to begin deep seabed mining by 2022

At the 76th meeting of the UN General Assembly last week, a controversial move by the states of Micronesia was on the agenda.

Issue #1983

Conservation, climate and communities

The Conservation Council of Western Australia (CCWA) held its Annual Conference.

Issue #2014

Flood, fire and famine

The 2022 Eastern Australian floods were one of the nation’s worst recorded flood disasters, destroying large parts of Southeastern Queensland and Northeastern NSW. The flooding...

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis.

Issue #2064

What is to be done, and how not to do it

I have been inspired to write this by reading Amitav Ghosh’s brilliant novel The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, which ends: “Much,...

Issue #2102

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Peru: According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the ‘Special Team of Prosecutors’ for cases involving victims during anti-government protests has launched 62 investigations into officials...

Issue #2104

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Canada: Women’s groups in Canada have taken a stand against NORAD and NATO expansion, and demand that the Arctic becomes a zone of peace. The...

Issue #2135

HALF THE SKY

The climate crisis is not gender neutral. Women and girls experience the greatest impacts, which amplify existing gender inequalities and pose unique threats to their...

Issue #1952

“Fighting for the future – class and climate”

On Thursday the 25th of February 2021, Politics in the Pub (Perth) discussed Climate Change and the environment – the pressing issue of our times, and how we deal with it will determine humankind’s future.

Issue #1975

UN IPCC Report: Australia’s role

Australia has already warmed by an alarming 1.4°C since 1910.

Issue #1976

The farce of BHP turning away from fossil fuels

BHP, the world’s second largest mining company, is selling off a lot of its global gas and oil assets to Australian outfit Woodside Petroleum.

Issue #1979

Coalition presses the UK to remove climate targets from trade deal

Scott Morrison has confirmed that the Coalition government pressed the UK to remove climate targets from the post-Brexit Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement

Issue #1984

School strike for climate change

The School Strike 4 Climate Change (SS4CC) was called around the world in the lead up to the critical COP 26 climate change conference.

Issue #1988

Death knell for fossil fuels

On the 12th of November, the Coalition released its long-awaited plan to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Issue #1991

Climate activist pays the price for government inaction

A climate activist who climbed on top of a coal train, which led to a five-hour delay of fifteen coal trains between Newcastle and Maitland,...

Issue #2066

Capitalism’s Global Food Crisis

The world is suffering from a dire food crisis. On 20 July India, the world’s leading rice exporter, supplying 40 per cent of the global...

Issue #2100

Biden anti-China tariffs threaten global economy

US President Biden has announced a range of tariffs on imported Chinese goods. It is a decision that will have negative implications for the USA’s...

The Asian emerald cuckoo found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Issue #2102

Heat wave emergency impacts animals in South East Asia

There is no single global index on what exactly a heat wave in South East Asia is. According to the India Meteorological Department, a heatwave...

Issue #2114

GLOBAL BRIEFS

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Hundreds of Dominicans demonstrated in front of the National Palace, Santo Domingo, demanding improvements to the Criminal Code. The protesters wanted a modern...

Displaced women and children escaping conflict and drought, Somalia.

Issue #2134

Imperialism and sub-Saharan Africa

There are currently 45 million displaced people in sub-Saharan Africa. That is 45 per cent of the total of displaced people on the planet. Lives...

Issue #1948

Climate change: false promises & false hope

One of Joe Biden’s first actions as President was to return the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement, from which the US withdrew under Donald Trump.

Issue #1974

UN IPCC Report

“Climate change is already affecting every inhabited region across the globe with human influence contributing to many observed changes in weather and climate extremes.”

Issue #1983

Morrison’s devious campaigning on climate change (amongst other things)

Most people are bewailing the lack of leadership we’re experiencing at the moment, with many believing our politicians are “thick.” I prefer the word “devious,”...

Issue #2001

A reflection on climate change in Western Australia and New South Wales

On the 4th of March 2022, West Australian Premier Mark McGowan finally relented on his state’s “hard border” which protected its residents from COVID, and...

Issue #2003

Sham carbon projects have cost taxpayers $1 billion

The Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) has spent more than one billion dollars of public money on projects which do not have a chance in hell...

Issue #2025

Diversity – sustainability – socialism

Cuba is one of the world’s most sustainable economies despite the six decades’ long illegal and economically crippling US blockade. Since the 1960s, the Cuban...

Issue #2037

The great carbon fraud

Earlier this month Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen released a consultation paper proposing a carbon credit scheme for Australia’s largest greenhouse gas emitters...

Issue #2044

School strike for action on climate change

On 3rd March, about 100 mostly school children rallied in the Supreme Gardens in Perth directly opposite one of the principal corporate emitters of carbon...

Issue #2052

GREEN NOTES

Anna Pha If you think the transition to renewables and following what the climate science dictates means phasing out fossil fuels, that’s not what the...

Issue #2099

LETTTERS

Domestic violence – addressing causes as well as symptoms As the government pauses to consider shelling up over $1 billion to address domestic violence, Australians...

Issue #2107

GLOBAL BRIEFS

PORTUGAL: Andre Ventura, leader of the far-right party Chega, has announced that he will join the Patriots for Europe alliance in the European Parliament. Currently...

Issue #1976

Australia fails the Pacific islands

The small, low-lying Pacific islands are often described as “the canary in the coalmine.” The very existence and lives of their people are threatened by climate change.

Issue #1984

Greenwashing dirty investments

Is there a company that doesn’t claim to support the Paris Agreement on climate change? The agreement was signed in 2015 and since then the...

Issue #2021

Energy transition authority critical to creating secure jobs for a safer climate

The ACTU calls on the Albanese Government to quickly establish a national Energy Transition Authority tasked with ensuring that workers and their communities affected by...

Issue #2028

Coal industry workers in Australia are taking their destiny into their own hands

The coal industry is to Australia what the Second Amendment of the US Constitution (granting citizens the right to bear arms) is to the United...

Issue #2033

DINGO

In a massive escalation of the simmering industrial conflict being waged by Svitzer Towage’s Australian management against local tugboat crew, the company gave notice that...

Issue #2062

Fossil fuels to the bitter end

If the massive amounts of undergrowth resulting from record rainfalls and flooding during La Niña dry out with an El Niño, Australia is set for...

Issue #2069

GLOBAL BRIEFS

JAPAN: Japanese retailer Seven & i Holdings Co is selling department store chain Sogo & Seibu Co to a US investment fund, even as the...

Issue #2073

‘The Fate of Food’ by Amanda Little

Is new technology the solution to feeding the world? In The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World Amanda Little...

Issue #2109

The world’s poor suffer and die as 1.5ºC breached

Extreme weather events have had a tragic impact on the poor. This global killer affected nearly 6.3 billion people, 78 per cent of the world’s...

Issue #2117

Climate casual: YouTube, the free market, and false hope

Online propaganda on platforms such as YouTube takes numerous forms. There’s the obvious: Japanese influencers promoting whale meat; USA-based gaming, fitness, and even car channels...

Issue #2146

GLOBAL BRIEFS

NEPAL: A three-day conference in Nepal, titled “Climate Change, Mountains and the Future of Humanity” took place last week. “From the lap of Sagarmatha (Everest),...

Issue #2187

Earth Day – Our Power, Our Planet

The official theme for Earth Day 2026 (22 April) was ‘Our Power, Our Planet,’ to highlight that every person’s actions matter, not just on Earth...

Issue #2187

Elon Musk undoing Tesla benefits with AI power plants

If you’re still using the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, now called X, you probably know that there’s an AI service attached, called...

Issue #1977

Renewable energy to meet 100% consumer demand at certain times of the day by 2025

Renewable energy is proving its reliability in serving Australia’s east coast, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).

Issue #2000

Climate change: Capitalism killing the earth

“The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health.”

Issue #2007

Keep money out of politics

Climate action has been at the centre of the 2022 Australian Federal Election. The two major parties are flexing their climate credentials, with the Coalition...

Issue #2012

Open letter to the Prime Minister of Australia

The Hon Anthony Albanese MP Prime Minister Parliament House CANBERRA ACT 2600 21 June 2022 Dear Prime Minister Albanese, The Communist Party of Australia wishes...

Issue #2015

DINGO

Amid attempts to drag Australia into the nuclear cycle, news from France casts yet another pall over the non-future of nuclear fission. France gets about...

Issue #2018

Listen to the science! State of the environment report

During the 2019-2020 bushfires thirty-three lives were lost, more than seven million hectares were burnt, more than 3,000 home destroyed. In the most recent floods,...

Issue #2032

A peace & peoples’ budget

Annual budgets are a mirror held up to the class divide. The income and expenditure sides of the budget come down to priorities. The budget...

Issue #2079

Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Australian Birds

Since the 1940s Australia has seen some dramatic climatic changes, such as changes in temperature, rainfall, CO₂ concentration and Ocean dynamics, with extreme events –...

The rehabilitation of the Suzhou Creek has improved the environment of large areas of Shanghai by improving sanitation services and also by providing greater access to parks and green spaces along the riverbanks.

Issue #2095

Boao Forum 2024 – Green Development, leadership, and lessons for Australia

“Policymakers need to strike a balance among safeguarding power supply, addressing social equity, and achieving sustainable transformation,” writes Li Baodong, Secretary-General of the Boao Forum...

Issue #2104

Australian coal: the state of play

The recent Federal Budget has highlighted the significance of the mining industry, especially coal, to the Australian economy. Australia has the third largest reserves of...

Mulan Wind Farm – located approximately 170km north east of Harbin City in Heilongiang.

Issue #2109

Hope from a greener China

The World Economic Forum’ (WEF) Global Risks Report rates the climate crisis as the primary risk to humanity. They see climate disruption as the main...

Issue #2112

GREEN NOTES

After more than 4 decades of struggle the Mirarr traditional owners have won a ban on mining of Jabiluka uranium deposits. The Northern Territory government,...

Issue #2121

Women and climate change

Research has shown that heat waves make existing maternal health disparities more dangerous for pregnant women. A recent report in Grist.org describes how researcher Rupa...

Issue #2152

GLOBAL BRIEFS

USA: The Indigenous People’s Coalition (IPC) met in Nashville to discuss opposition to anti-immigrant raids conducted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the...

Issue #2200

Europe and the cost of climate inaction

The 2026 European heatwave is on track to exceed Europe’s previous heat events. While much has been said in the media about the human costs...

Issue #2202

GLOBAL BRIEFS

CONGO: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has imposed an immediate ban on exports of copper and cobalt concentrates. It marks a major step...

Issue #1987

COP26: Colonial plunder

As the COP26 climate change meeting entered its second week, the divide between developing and developed countries and their colonial history has been laid bare.

Issue #2016

Climate action looming as first Parliamentary sitting approaches

Parliament is meeting at the end of this month for the first time since the 2022 Federal Election with promises of significant reforms, including climate...

Issue #1997

Are we really at the forefront on renewable energy?

“Australia is at the forefront of a global experiment on how to shift an electricity grid built on coal to one dominated by renewables.” So...

Issue #1998

The floods are rising and so are we

While thousands of people across South-East Queensland and northern New South Wales have been left devastated by the unanticipated extreme flooding event, which has destroyed...

Issue #1999

Climate change – ACT NOW!

Prime Minister Scott Morrison described the floods along the east coast of Australia as a “one-in-a-100-year event”; NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet called them a “one-in-1000-year...

Issue #2007

Who rules Australia?

One of the striking features of federal elections is their increasingly undemocratic nature and Americanisation. Much of the electioneering by major parties has been short...

Issue #2017

State of the Environment report

“Overall, the state and trend of the environment of Australia are poor and deteriorating as a result of increasing pressures from climate change, habitat loss,...

Issue #2039

PEACE NOTES

Hannah Middleton We face two crises which could ultimately destroy humanity and our planet – nuclear and climate Armageddon. A report – Climate Collateral –...

Issue #2040

GREEN NOTES

Anna Pha Welcome to Green Notes, a fortnightly column which will cover climate change, environmental issues and biodiversity and their impact on humanity including indigenous...

Issue #2044

Bird vagrancy: an indicator of global climatic changes

In October 2022 a young Bar-Tailed Godwit broke a world record by flying non-stop from Alaska to Ansons Bay, Tasmania, 13,560 km in 11 days....

Issue #2046

GREEN NOTES

Anna Pha Humanity faces two major existential threats: climate change and nuclear war. The doomsday clock is ticking on both these threats. Ironically, the US...

Issue #2050

GREEN NOTES

Anna Pha Australians spend more than $570 and consume around 500 litres per person on bottled water per annum – second only to Singapore. The...

A worker checks the placement of a solar panel.

Issue #2052

New Net Zero Authority “a game-changer” for workers

The Communist Party of Australia has long supported a just transition to a sustainable future. The CPA political resolution, adopted at the 14th Congress in...

Issue #2060

GREEN NOTES

Chevron’s website sings the praises of carbon capture and storage: “Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a proven technology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG)....

Issue #2069

WORTH READING

Big Bad Fix: The Case Against Climate Geoengineering A report by ETC Group, BiofuelWatch and Heinrich Böll Foundation Available at etcgroup.org As this report details,...

Issue #2096

GREEN NOTES

Would you believe it, Woodside has a Climate Transition Action Plan! “2023 was a strong emissions performance year for our facilities,” says the plan. “We...

Issue #2102

GREEN NOTES

Anna Pha With increased concern over climate change and the desire for green energy and products, corporations are making an art form out of greenwashing....

Motorbike riding through flooded Cartagena, Colombia.

Issue #2108

Climate crisis hits Latin America

In 2023 climatic changes in Latin America and the Caribbean affected basic infrastructure, clean water supply, electricity generation, and food production. This places livelihoods and...

Issue #2125

The Carbon Inequality Kills

Every year Oxfam produces its report on global inequality. It always makes for grim reading, as capitalism demands higher profits while billions eke out an...

Issue #2142

GREEN NOTES

Extreme and costly weather events continue to have a deadly and destructive impact on people, our biosphere, and the planet. 2024 was the second consecutive...

Issue #2149

UN Climate Week in Panamá: we need three planets

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held its first Climate Week in Panamá City, Panamá, 19-23 May. The solutions to the climate crisis...

Issue #1959

Morrison’s hydrogen scheme another marketing ploy

Yet again, the Morrison government is trying to pull the wool over Australia’s eyes. This time, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is attempting to sell the...

Issue #1986

Incompetent: Scott Morrison at the COP26 Summit

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was initially hesitant to personally represent Australia at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP26.

Issue #1988

Limiting global warming to 1.5° “on life support”

The United Nations Climate Change Conference – dubbed COP26 – has recently ended in Glasgow after two busy weeks in which 120 heads of state,...

Issue #1994

Reef policy is all bark no bite

For the past year, the Australian government has been waging a concerted battle against UNESCO to stop the Great Barrier Reef from being added to...

Issue #2050

Wong’s “reality check” ignores reality

When Penny Wong took over as Foreign Minister from Marise Payne last year, she was surfing the wave of approval that brought the Albanese Labor...

Issue #2068

GREEN NOTES

Anna Pha Australia is a contracting party to the Convention on the Prevention of Maritime Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and other Matter, or London...

Issue #2083

Drowning states

“The window for 1.5 degrees is rapidly closing. Every fraction of a degree matters. Every ton of carbon dioxide counts. We need immediate and drastic...

Issue #2092

GREEN NOTES

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has confirmed a mass coral bleaching is taking place – the fifth in eight years. The World Heritage-listed...

Issue #2099

PEACE NOTES

BIDEN MANOEUVRES TO SAVE VOTES Facing fast growing opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza, US President Biden is manoeuvring to save votes in the...

Romina Bietsen with Andrew Irving at the gates of Pine Gap 2016.

Issue #2103

Fighting for our lives

A speech from Romina Beitseen of the Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) to the Eighth International Seminar for Peace and for the Abolition...

Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA)

Issue #2104

Bushfire survivors call Dutton out

Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action (BSCA) has spoken out in response to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s statements that the Federal Liberal Party would dump Australia’s...

Issue #2114

GREEN NOTES

After considerable campaigning by climate scientists and environmentalists Google took an important step by demonetising the Heartland Institute by removing paid ads. Youtube is a...

Issue #2129

LETTERS

Capitalist climate change The incendiary cataclysms in Los Angeles, California remind us that the root cause of the climate crisis exacerbating the fires spreading throughout...

Issue #1959

Climate Summit: “THE WORLD IS ON RED ALERT”

The growing recognition of the urgency by world leaders was reflected at the virtual climate summit called by US President Joe Biden from 22nd to 23rd April.

Issue #2029

End fossil fuels!

It appears as though climate action has a new, unlikely support from Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher! Speaking to an Australian business community event in London,...

Issue #2031

Class war budget

The budget, delivered on 25th October, is set in the context of a looming global recession, ongoing wars, rocketing prices, extreme weather events, famine, and...

Issue #2044

GREEN NOTES

Anna Pha Last month Labor’s minister for environmental destruction, Tanya Plibersek, quietly granted Santos a licence to open 116 new coal seam gas wells in...

Issue #2054

GREEN NOTES

Anna Pha “If emissions follow the trajectory set by current NDCs, there is a less than five per cent chance of keeping temperatures well below...

A coal miners hat that has been hung up.

Issue #2060

Survivors take on big coal

Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action have praised environmental justice groups for launching a fresh Federal Court challenge, arguing that the Environment Minister can and must...

Issue #2070

GREEN NOTES

The last thing we need Anna Pha Oceans are increasingly being seen as tools against global warming while offering tremendous business opportunities through the use...

Willie Wagtail, Fogg Dam Conservation Reserve, NT.

Issue #2075

Our silent skies

Over the past fifty years modern intensified agricultural has used new technology and mechanisation, changes in farming practices and operations and agrochemical inputs – weedicides,...

Issue #2081

COP28 and China’s gift to the world

The United Nations Climate Change Conference/ Conference of the Parties, better known as COP28, has convened, but there is nothing to celebrate. It is a...

Issue #2086

GREEN NOTES

Since it was first publicly debated in the 1980s, cover-ups and lies about the causes and even existence of climate change have continued. Recently uncovered...

Issue #2090

Tuvalu, elections and climate catastrophe

On 26 January, the people of Tuvalu went to the polls. On 26 February, the election of a new Prime Minister, Feleti Teo, was announced....

Issue #2094

GREEN NOTES

Woodside’s Browse gas (425 km north of Broome) project and North West Shelf extension proposals depend on the approval of the Minister for the Environment,...

Issue #2110

GREEN NOTES

Scientists at the Potsdam Institute estimate that the costs of inaction on climate change will be US$38 trillion a year by 2050, whereas climate action...

Issue #2119

Green development on the Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He feeds 12 per cent of China’s population, irrigates 15 per cent of arable land, and provides water to more...

Issue #2128

GREEN NOTES

As the year draws to a close, corporations and their compliant governments are taking humanity closer to self-destruction. Developing countries went to the COP29 UN...

Issue #2129

GREEN NOTES

In many parts of the nation, First Nations working with non-Aboriginal Australians has emerged as a sustainable way of dealing with the environmental challenges posed...

Issue #2182

GREEN NOTES

Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time, thanks to climate change making the environment more hospitable. The three specimens of Culiseta annulata...

Issue #2184

Letters

Humpty Dumpty Hegemony The hegemonic nature of capitalism being unleashed in the Middle East is not new and has been analysed relentlessly. Antonio Gramsci had...

Issue #1955

Wollongong joins in Global Climate Strike

Despite the weather, plans went ahead on Friday, 19 March, for a demonstration in Illawarra’s CBD.

Issue #2002

Budget 2022-23 – CLASS WAR

The budget announced by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is a pre-election, last ditch, vote-buying exercise from the Morrison government. Voters struggling with rising prices and falling...

Issue #2006

VOTE THEM OUT

The Coalition Morrison government has got to go. On Saturday 21st May vote them out! The Communist Party of Australia rejects the undemocratic electoral system...

Issue #2009

Feet on the ground

After nine years of corrupt, anti-people, climate deniers in office, the newly elected Albanese Labor government faces many challenges. Expectations of real change are high,...

Issue #2013

Anti-protest laws affect us all

Earlier this month, NSW police bungled a raid on Blockade Australia activists in the Colo Valley, in Sydney’s north-west. Activists at the remote camp noticed...

Issue #2025

Good planets are hard to find

La Niña event is under way for the third year in a row according to the Bureau of Meteorology. The Pacific, including Australia, can expect...

Issue #2027

Landmark UN decision highlights Australia’s climate injustice

In news that will surprise no one, a United Nations Committee has found the former Coalition government to have violated the human rights of Torres...

Issue #2029

Australia: The big polluter

Australia is the world’s largest gas and coal exporter. There are currently 114 new or expanded fossil fuel projects awaiting approval. In 2021-22, governments in...

Issue #2034

Climate change wreaks havoc

Lives have been lost and thousands of homes have been flooded and destroyed as the floods continue to hit eastern Australia. People have lost their...

Issue #2056

Fight Climate Change Not War speak out and march Fremantle

On Saturday 27th May, several anti-war, anti-nuclear and climate activist groups held a speak-out on the AUKUS Agreement signed in September 2021 between Australia, the...

Issue #2062

Climate crisis intensifies

On four consecutive days, the earth has reached its hottest day on record, culminating in a global average temperature of 17.23 degrees Celsius on 4th...

Issue #2104

GREEN NOTES

Dr Anshu Banerjee, Director of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing at the World Health Organization (WHO): “While awareness of climate change has...

Issue #2105

Peter Dutton & the nuclear shit show

We watched in horror as Peter Dutton and a whole cavalcade of Coalition ministers rolled out their nuclear nightmare in a blatant attempt to keep...

Issue #2120

Climate terrorism in South America

The Amazon basin, with an area greater than Australia, has been receiving less rainfall than usual, over the period June to November. In 2023 water...

Issue #2129

LA fires a warning of things to come

Global Climate Scientists have confirmed 2024 was the world’s hottest since records began, eclipsing the previous record set in 2023 and raising the alarm that...

Issue #2142

Socialism: the only alternative

The question is; what is the alternative to capitalism? Humanity is facing two existential threats as workers celebrate May Day: climate change and nuclear war....

Issue #2151

AFTER AMERICA: Australia and the new world order

This book is a well-timed look at the new world ‘disorder’ and particularly analyses the situation in which Australia now finds itself, having been subservient...

Violet CoCo at a climate rally, Adelaide, 2023.

Issue #2194

An interview with Violet CoCo

Interviewer: Royce Kurmelovs Royce Kurmelovs: Can you explain a little about what happened? Violet CoCo: Yeah, so recently I was a part of the Freedom...

Issue #2200

Earth’s Greatest Enemy

The United States military industrial complex is not only one of the most politically destructive military forces in the world, but also the most environmentally...

Issue #1986

“Code red for humanity”: Glasgow Climate Summit

The rich G20 countries, responsible for more than eighty per cent of human-made emissions.

Issue #2010

Energy prices explode: capitalism in crisis

Consumers face soaring energy costs as Australia’s gas and thermal coal exporters rake in windfall profits. The incoming Labor government has inherited the legacy of...

Issue #2069

DINGO

The Climate Council has labelled the decision to approve an extension to the Gregory Crinum coal mine in Queensland’s Bowen Basin until 2073 as “stunning...

Issue #2076

GREEN NOTES

Bad governance Anna Pha The UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights, Marcos A Orellana, issued a damning report on his visit to Australia...

Issue #2108

GREEN NOTES

Temperatures continue to rise, breaking records on a monthly basis accompanied by an increase in catastrophic weather events. In a paper published in the Proceedings...

Issue #2118

GREEN NOTES

“Climate change presents a fundamental threat to human health. It affects the physical environment as well as all aspects of both natural and human systems...

Issue #2134

Monopolies destroying the planet

Food monopolies are intensifying agricultural production in ways that both produce more emissions and which leave us vulnerable to climate impacts by increased use of...

Adelaide’s water desalination plant at Lonsdale.

Issue #2136

Water vs ‘Defence’ in South Australia

A key feature of the water supply system in SA is the ADP (Adelaide Desalination Plant), which relieves demand on water from the Murray Darling...

The three tropical cyclones in the Eastern Australian and South Pacific basins on 25 February 2025.

Issue #2137

Alfred born of fossil fuels

When category 2 cyclone Alfred was downgraded to a tropical low there was no room for complacency. Flooding, strong and destructive winds, and power outages...

Issue #2147

Penny Wong on the back foot

In a demonstration of Pacific solidarity, Penny Wong has returned to the scene of her maiden trip as foreign minister while making the first trip...

Issue #2150

GREEN NOTES

The COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference is to be held in Belém, Brazil from 10 to 21 November 2025. Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula...

Issue #2156

GREEN NOTES

A massive, toxic algae bloom has spread to more than 4,500 square kilometres of South Australia’s coastline spreading from the Southern Fleurieu Peninsula to Coorong...

Issue #2160

GREEN NOTES

The UN Environment Program (UNEP) warns of a growing and serious impact on climate. That is the rapid, unregulated expansion of AI data centres including...

Issue #2176

GREEN NOTES

Global coal demand rose in 2025, reaching a record high of 8.8 billion tonnes, with an increase of 0.5 per cent expected for 2026. This...

Issue #2181

LETTERS

Spineless war criminals Paul Keating once famously described then Opposition leader John Hewson as “a shiver waiting for a spine to run up.” He also,...

Issue #2184

GREEN NOTES

Important rivers in Alaska’s Brooks Range and National Parks are turning bright orange and becoming increasingly acidic as climate change thaws the permafrost across the...

Issue #2190

GREEN NOTES

One of the most visible ecological responses to global climate change is the increased forest density and spread of boreal forests, or taiga. These are...

Issue #2194

GREEN NOTES

A major global assessment by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London found freshwater vertebrate populations have declined by 83 per cent...

Issue #1956

NSW floods not a single story

In late March, floods covered 600 km along the NSW coast with tens of thousands of people evacuated from their homes. This event has been referred to in the media as a once in a 100-year event.

Issue #2012

The sun will shine, the wind will blow

Australia is on the brink of a total collapse of its domestic energy market amid a crisis that has been decades in the making. If...

Issue #2056

DINGO

British PM Rishi Sunak has announced that two further barges will house around 1000 asylum-seekers off Britain’s coast. In a speech in Dover, Kent, Sunak...

Electric cars charging while parked on street.

Issue #2060

Electric vehicles

Individually, Australians hold the dubious distinction of being the world’s biggest polluters, on a per capita basis, among nations of the OECD (Organisation for Economic...

$Stop fracking rally.$ Issue #2063

Mega-fracker now on site

Water is life. But right now, Tamboran Resources is on the fast track to frack the Northern Territory, and water is at risk of being...

Issue #2070

DINGO

As temperatures climb, and heatwaves become more common, it’s worth remembering that unions achieve and enforce protection against heat. As a comrade in the Rail...

Issue #2077

DINGO

Climate action group Lock the Gate Alliance has accused the NSW Minns government of breaking an election promise by allowing BHP’s planned Mt Arthur expansion...

Issue #2079

DINGO

Divisions emerge: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, like number of other western leaders, is turning a blind eye to Israel’s war crimes in...

Issue #2088

GREEN NOTES

Research into the potential climate impact of burning fossil fuels dates back at least 70 years. (Green Notes, Guardian #2086) But the impact of human...

Issue #2090

GREEN NOTES

Have your ever wondered why different days at the same temperature can feel more or less exhausting? It comes down to heat and humidity Our...

Issue #2116

GREEN NOTES

Under the Paris Agreement, governments set voluntary commitments for action on climate change with the aim of limiting climate warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial...

Over 100,000 marched in Vancouver, 2019.

Issue #2118

Nature’s red alert

Large swathes of Europe, the US, Canada, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Africa, and Kenya are under water or in the process of dealing...

Issue #2146

GREEN NOTES

Carbon credits are allocated for activities that claim to store, reduce or avoid greenhouse gas emissions. These include retaining vegetation instead of clearing it, capturing...

Issue #2149

Oceans of plastic waste

Every year 8 June marks the United Nation’s World Oceans Day. This year’s theme is “Wonder: Sustaining what sustains us.” To be sustainable requires the...

Issue #2151

Consequences

The Mid-North Coast of NSW recently experienced record breaking flooding, after experiencing back to back extreme weather events in the last few years. Such disasters...

Issue #2156

The right side of history

A landmark decision by the NSW Court of Appeal to overturn the 2022 approval for Indonesian mining company MACH Energy, to extend its Mount Pleasant...

Issue #2162

GREEN NOTES

Norway has identified valuable deep-sea mineral deposits of copper, cobalt, rare earths, and sulphide deposits at Grøntua, across an undersea area of 280,000 km². In...

Issue #2172

GREEN NOTES

Brazil, the host nation of COP30, is facing criticism for approving new oil drilling off the Amazon River’s mouth just before the start of the...

Issue #2174

GREEN NOTES

In the aftermath of COP 30 in Belem, Brazil this November it is worth considering the plight of the Guarani community in Bolivia. Climate conferences...

Issue #2190

First climate case reaches the High Court

On 13 May 2026, the High Court of Australia heard the nation’s first ever climate change case to reach our highest court – a landmark...

Issue #2019

“CLIMATE WARS”

As of writing, a bill placing into law Labor’s forty-three per cent emissions reduction target by 2030 has passed the lower house. The bill also...

Issue #2047

Background to IPCC report

The production of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports by consensus, by scientists and governments means that statements that appear in the report summaries...

Issue #2067

DINGO

The increasing concentration of wealth and power among mega-corporations, facilitated in no small part by rigged rules of the global economy, is undermining democracy, economic...

Issue #2072

GREEN NOTES

Anna Pha Coalition leader Peter Dutton is calling for small modular (nuclear) reactors (SMRs) to replace coal-fired power stations as they are closed. SMRs are...

Issue #2074

DINGO

When the Nazis needed to put their despatch of people to concentration camps on a more efficient basis, whom did they turn to? Their good...

Issue #2076

DINGO

Thick smoke enveloped extensive areas of the Brazilian Amazon as the region grapples with a surge in wildfires and a historic drought. In Manaus, a...

Issue #2084

Fossil fuel hijack at COP28

Climate change is here, now, with catastrophic weather events impacting every continent and ocean. Time is running out to save humanity, yet the climate change...

Issue #2087

DINGO

Dingo has received a letter from Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, [covered in Guardian #2086 on 5 February 2024 in ‘Black Saturday survivors call for...

Issue #2100

AUKUS: return to form for the World’s dumping ground

A Labor-chaired inquiry has urged the Albanese government to rewrite its proposed AUKUS laws, based on fears that Australia risks becoming the dumping ground for...

Issue #2104

DINGO

This week’s target for intervention by US imperialism post-WW2 is Albania 1949-53: US and Britain tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the communist government and install one...

Climate Resilience Sector Project in Tonga.

Issue #2116

Pacific Islands Forum and Australian control

The Pacific Islands Forum in Tonga has come to a close. Official photographs have been taken, and media conferences have been held. For Albanese the...

Issue #2122

GREEN NOTES

The way plastic is produced, used, and discarded results in pollution, litter, and harm to the environment, particularly to marine life, but also to other...

Issue #2140

GREEN NOTES

Jim Chalmers’ Budget Speech failed to mention the words ‘climate change’ and ‘environment’ although $7.3 billion is allocated in recovery payments for ‘natural’ disasters that...

Issue #2158

GREE NOTES

Extreme weather events are on the rise with no continent spared. Massive flooding, cyclones, out-of-control wildfires, drought, and extreme heat are taking a huge toll...

Issue #2160

WA: Senator and environmental activist fined

Former Greens Senator and long-time environmental activist Jo Vallentine of Western Australia faced the Perth Magistrates Courts on 13 August 2025, charged with one count...

Issue #2162

We are not doomed

The UN’s top climate scientists have issued their final warning: the window to secure a livable future is “rapidly closing.” Their 2023 AR6 Synthesis Report...

Issue #2168

Tipping points

“How hot we let it get and for how long really matters in preventing climate tipping points,” the Global Tipping Points Report 2025 warns. “The...

Issue #2176

Indigenous knowledge can help reduce impacts of bushfires, floods, and cyclones

Australia is facing devastating weather emergencies across the country, including bushfires, flooding, and tropical cyclones. Indigenous communities, with a unique connection to the land, are...

Issue #2202

GREEN NOTES

Orchids are more than exotic and pretty flowers hanging from trees, or growing on the ground. They are excellent ‘bioindicators’ of the health of a...

Issue #2046

Illawarra renewable energy zone to deliver long-term work

Maritime workers living and working in the Illawarra are excited by the opportunities and long-term industry development that will come from the declaration by the...

Magela Creek, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory.

Issue #2053

NT: Gas industry gets biggest slice

The Territory and Federal governments appear to have prioritised spending on roads that will benefit the fracking industry at a time when many of the...

Issue #2063

Resist the anti-China scare campaign

Australians have real problems, problems that can’t be wished away. Climate change is happening now, and our ALP government is making it worse. There is...

Issue #2084

GREEN NOTES

Thanks to concerted organising and campaigning by environmentalists, Traditional Owners, farmers, communities and individuals there were some wins in 2023. Progress is far too slow,...

Issue #2097

DINGO

The government of Papua New Guinea continues to reject Australia’s attempt to force it to abandon its relations with China. Twenty years ago, the then...

Issue #2105

This week’s US imperialist intervention is Germany 1950s: The CIA orchestrated a wide-ranging campaign of sabotage, terrorism, and psychological warfare against the German Democratic Republic...

Issue #2106

GREEN NOTES

Each of the past 12 months from June 2023 to May 2024 has set a new global record temperature for the time of year. That...

Issue #2123

Broken Hill storms report

Severe storms hit Broken Hill at midnight 16 October. Winds were over 130km/hour, and there were over 130,000 lightning strikes per hour for 24 hours....

Issue #2124

GREEN NOTES

In Spain torrential rain has battered the eastern region of Valencia, and taken the lives of hundreds of people. It has swept away bridges, buildings,...

Issue #2154

GREEN NOTES

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, involves blasting huge volumes of water mixed with toxic chemicals and sand deep into the earth to fracture rock formations and...

A grass fire burns through an open area.

Issue #2161

Desert megafires set to worsen under climate change

Rohan Fisher, Senior Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University says “Hardly anyone’s heard of the Australian ‘Black Spring’ bushfires of 2023. But the fires that...

Issue #2163

‘Grotesque’ Woodside approval

September is a defining and critical month in shaping Australia’s climate and energy future. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese left the Pacific Islands Forum in the...

Issue #2178

GREEN NOTES

Israel is sometimes portrayed as a global leader in large-scale seawater desalination, but its projects have created significant environmental problems, mainly along the country’s coastal...

Issue #2196

GREEN NOTES

Bonaire is in the Dutch Caribbean, a special municipality of the Netherlands off the coast of Venezuela. The small island has won a major climate...

Issue #2101

EDITORIAL

Opposition leader Peter Dutton is sticking by nuclear energy for Australia as though it’s a real policy. The idea has been described as “idiotic”, as...

Issue #2131

GREEN NOTES

The only true path to energy security, stable power prices, prosperity and a liveable planet lies in abandoning polluting fossil fuels and accelerating the renewables-based...

Issue #2140

Palmer pushes climate lies

It’s not unusual for people to notice Clive Palmer’s billboards for his renamed political party, ‘Trumpet of Patriots’ and wonder what’s in it for Clive....

Issue #2163

Algae bloom devastation in South Australia

In a warmer climate, changing conditions are creating a devastating algae bloom in South Australia’s coastal waters, one which can out-compete other species. This has...

Issue #2164

GREEN NOTES

Researchers from the University of Queensland (UQ) have detected significant methane emissions from potentially thousands of poorly sealed exploration holes drilled across Queensland. This is...

Issue #2200

GREEN NOTES

The revival of Japan’s Crested Ibis (Toki Nipponia nippon) was made possible through its scientific cooperation with China, whose policy of ‘Ecological Civilisation’ (shēngtài wénmíng)...

Issue #2049

MAY DAY

The international working class continues to commemorate the struggles and gains achieved over 134 years since the first May Day commemoration in 1889 which remembered...

Issue #2052

In their words: “No fracking”

Amid opposition from Indigenous owners and in the face of a growing environmental crisis, the NT government has given the go-ahead for fracking in the...

Map of Timber Creek and the military base in the Northern Territory.

Issue #2091

Timber Creek Propaganda

Timber Creek is little more than a pit stop in the Northern Territory. It is in the spotlight because it is next to Bradshaw, a...

Issue #2096

The climate wreckers

“Australia’s treachery is once again laid bare for all to see. This report cuts through the supposed change in rhetoric on climate by the Albanese...

Issue #2106

DINGO

This week’s target for intervention by US imperialism post-WW2 is Iran 1953: Prime Minister Mossadegh was overthrown in a joint US and British operation. Mossadegh...

Issue #2115

Thousands of public sector nurses and midwives across NSW stopped work for one hour last week, as they ramped up their fight for a 15...

Issue #2136

Capitalism and global warming

n his 1844 Manuscripts, Marx wrote “Man lives from nature, and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it if he is not to die....

Issue #2138

GREEN NOTES

The Arctic and Antarctic polar ice caps are usually covered in white snow and ice that reflect heat back into space. The ice has melted...

Issue #2144

GREEN NOTES

Energy-hungry data centres are among the fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The energy sector is at the heart of one of the most...

Issue #2148

GREEN NOTES

“Not only has the world already seen an increase in these extreme weather events, but over the coming decades, every region around the globe will...

Issue #2166

GREEN NOTES

AI data centres in the United States are expanding at an unprecedented rate, powering everything from ChatGPT to autonomous vehicles. Most of the world’s 8,000...

Issue #2186

Climate Council: time to Trump-proof Australia

The Climate Council is urging the Albanese government to use next month’s Federal Budget to fund measures that will deliver Australians lasting energy security, not...

Issue #2192

Climate change: UN landmark resolution

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last week voted with overwhelming support to adopt a landmark resolution led by Vanuatu and 12 other countries which...

Issue #2047

“Defuse climate time-bomb”

“This is the earth’s last chance to avoid climate disaster,” warns the Intergovernmental UN Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC in its latest report...

Issue #2050

May Day 2023: What do we march for?

1889 is a long way behind us, and the first May Day commemoration honouring the workers killed and wounded in the Haymarket confrontation in Chicago...

Issue #2052

Not a People’s Budget

Budgets involve a redistribution of wealth reflecting government priorities and serving class interests. The 2023-24 federal budget has clear priorities. The big winners are the...

Issue #2053

“Vastly out of line with the science”

The Climate Council has slammed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s decision to ignore the climate risk of four polluting coal projects as “reckless” and “out of...

Issue #2070

Speeding up

Things are speeding up. Climate change has gone from causing the cliched reaction ‘I’m worried about my grandchildren,’ to ‘I worry about my children,’ to...

Tokelau Warriors: We are not drowning. We are fighting.

Issue #2079

The rough deal facing climate refugees

As the consequence of the world’s inaction on climate intensifies, the effects are felt more acutely by those who did the least to cause them....

Issue #2081

DINGO

Lock the Gate Alliance and Central Queensland conservationists have condemned the recommendation that Whitehaven’s Winchester South mega coal mine should be approved. The project will...

Issue #2120

GREEN NOTES

Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has launched a Planetary Health Check (PHC), a first-of-its-kind scientific report and tool for the health of the...

Issue #2123

DINGO

PM Anthony Albanese has rejected accusations from Beijing that his country is “plagued by systemic racism and hate crimes.” Beijing spoke out after an Australian...

Issue #2133

GREEN NOTES

The wildfires in Los Angeles, massive flooding in north Queensland, and floods in greater Sydney are a small taste of what lies ahead if governments...

Issue #2134

DINGO

Australian soccer star Samantha Kerr has been found not guilty of racially harassing a London policeman after calling him “stupid and white” during an incident...

Issue #2142

What they don’t ask If you’ve been finding the media coverage of this year’s Federal election annoying, you’re not alone. Partly, it’s the major parties...

Saibai Island in the Torres Strait Islands sea level rising on grave yard.

Issue #2155

Federal Court says no to Torres Strait Islanders on climate change

On 14 July a Torres Strait Islander delegation of elders, Paul Kabai and Pabai Pabai, travelled to the Federal Court in Cairns to receive the...

Issue #2170

GREEN NOTES

The people of Greenland are facing a climate change crisis. The transformation of its ice sheet, ecosystems, and the lives of its people provide a...

Issue #2171

Westpac deforestation backdown

Westpac’s annual results, released 3 November, reveal the bank has weakened its approach to deforestation. The bank’s deadline for achieving its earlier ‘no deforestation’ commitment...

Issue #2176

Heatwaves: Silent killers

“Exposure to high heat is a major threat to human health. More people die in Australia from heatwaves than all other extreme weather events combined....

World with thermometer and burn forest in background.

Issue #2064

End the rule of fossil fuel

“Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning. The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling...

Issue #2074

Time for politics!

In the face of catastrophic climate change, some people think that it’s no time for politics. What they mean is that we should take effective...

Kinglake National Park after the Black Saturday bushfires.

Issue #2086

Black Saturday survivors call for action

Fifteen years after the catastrophic Black Saturday bushfires in regional Victoria, which killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2000 homes, bushfire survivors and former...

Issue #2091

EDITORIAL

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has been in the news again. He says we should have nuclear to bolster our efforts to reduce carbon emissions. He’s...

Issue #2136

DINGO

The Climate Change Authority’s latest report confirms the risks of delaying a clean energy future in favour of nuclear power will lead to higher emissions...

Issue #2164

Govt ignores climate risk assessment

The National Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) released earlier this month by the Albanese government looks at what Australia might expect under three levels of global...

Three WILPF members leading a panel discussion.

Issue #2184

International women’s action campaigns

In South Australia women have been celebrating 110 years of Women’s contributions to global peace and justice as part of International Women’s Day. The Women’s...

Issue #2195

DINGO

In response to Environment Minister Chris Bowen’s opening address at the Bonn Climate Change Conference, also called SB64, Shiva Gounden, Head of Pacific at Greenpeace...

Issue #2099

Gas Strategy: path to oblivion

Humanity faces two major existential threats: climate change and nuclear war. The Albanese Labor government has already fuelled the threat of nuclear war with AUKUS...

Issue #2091

CAPITALISM

Living standards for the majority of Australians continue to fall while the gap between the wealthy and middle to low-income workers widens. The Reserve Bank...

Issue #2105

Climate disasters force Australians to move a quarter of a million times

Australians have been forced to move more than 240,000 times in recent years due to worsening disasters, with the hardest hit communities experiencing extreme weather...

Issue #2148

Labor’s carbon bomb

With the elections safely out of the way, Labor’s Environment Minister Murray Watt dropped a bombshell, announcing the approval of an extension of Woodside’s North...

Issue #2054

Time for action

“Are we there yet?” This is the perennial question of bored children in the family car on a long trip. For some time now, humanity...

Issue #2122

A UN target to protect and restore 30 per cent of nature by 2030 will not be achieved in ocean environments until 2107 on current...

Issue #2129

EDITORIAL

It was the UN Secretary-General who famously said, “The world is burning. We need a renewables revolution.” It is literally burning in California. Other parts...

Issue #2131

DINGO

The United Workers’ Union (UWU) declares that “Climate change is union business.” The union notes that workers in Australia are on the frontlines of the...

Issue #2146

DINGO

Just in case you thought that there are areas too remote to be affected by climate change, a key climate conference in Nepal has recently...

Issue #2147

Climate change and mental health

Australia is experiencing more floods, droughts and bushfires as climate change continues to gather pace. The findings of scientific studies reaffirm the interplay between resources,...

Issue #2162

DINGO

Modelling used by the Business Council of Australia to claim a strong 2035 target would cost billions, lacks credibility, the Australian Conservation Foundation warns. The...

Issue #2167

DINGO

600,000 people recently took to the streets of London for Palestine. A reassertion of solidarity with a people facing genocide. A rebuke to PM Keir...

Issue #2171

Australia’s COP30 turning point

As the COP30 UN climate conference began in Belém, Brazil, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has urged the Australian government to drive forward the action needed to...

Issue #2173

DINGO

ABC offer ‘insulting’ Staff at the ABC have voted to reject management’s insulting enterprise agreement offer, which sought to undermine previous wins, threaten to stall...

Issue #2105

EDITORIAL

Do you ever get déjà vu, the feeling that you’ve been through something before? Sometimes, that’s because you have been through it before. So it...

Issue #2120

Nature (not so) positive

In 2022 Labor came to office with the promise of introducing a Nature Positive Plan that would be “Better for the Environment, Better for Business....

Issue #2174

For a new year of justice

2025 is leaving us with an enormous toll the peoples of the world are feeling as a result of genocide and the Zionist attacks on...

Issue #2127

DINGO

A new draft of a deal on cash to adapt to climate change released at the United Nations climate summit (COP29) “has angered” developing nations....

Issue #2130

EDITORIAL

The inferno that has ravaged large spans of urban areas in Los Angeles, destroying thousands of homes and businesses, and taking with it more than...

Issue #2134

Labor’s big fail

Labor has been in office for almost three years. It has introduced a number of progressive reforms, but in the lead-up to the federal elections...

Issue #2138

DINGO

A survey of 1,011 people across Australia has found half of respondents are going without food, medication and other essentials to try to pay their...

Issue #2139

DINGO

Environmental activist group Greenpeace International has been ordered to pay more than $660 million (US) in damages to a pipeline company by a US court....

Issue #2149

Queensland: consultation fail

The Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders in Council (MMEIC) are concerned that the Port of Brisbane has failed to conduct adequate consultation on the environmental and cultural...

Issue #2151

DINGO

Protests rocked the host city, The Hague in the Netherlands at the recent NATO summit, as peace campaigners protested at the militarisation of Europe. “Let’s...

Issue #2201

DINGO

Greenpeace is calling on the Albanese Labor government to urgently address Queensland’s deforestation crisis using the new national nature law, after the Great Barrier Reef...

Issue #2202

DINGO

African nations have been urged to step up preparations for what could become one of the strongest El Niño events on record, say scientists. Climate...

Issue #2117

DINGO

Farmers have travelled from across Queensland to deliver a clear message to politicians ahead of the election campaign: Farmers want a clean future. Farmers for...

Hurricane Milton in the Gulf of Mexico from the International Space Station.

Issue #2121

Australia must learn from Milton

Hurricane Helene brought a cocktail of extreme weather events; a massive storm surge, strong winds, heavy rainfall, and extensive flooding reaching more than 800 kilometres...

Issue #2143

EDITORIAL

By the time you read this, the federal election will be finished. After a long and tiring campaign, it’s understandable that a lot of people...

Issue #2164

DINGO

Pope Leo XIV has sharply condemned EV car maker Tesla’s plan to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Tesla’s board has proposed a US...

Issue #2173

COP30. ‘End the era of fossil fuels’

“COP30 will go down in history as the deadliest talk show ever produced,” Harjeet Singh of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation said at the conclusion...

Issue #2174

Problems with Labor’s new nature laws

The Greens have agreed to back the Labor government’s legislation rewriting the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act and ending a five-year struggle to supposedly...

Issue #2072

Unite to save the planet

“If nothing changes, we are heading towards a 2.8 degree temperature rise – towards a dangerous and unstable world,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in...

Issue #2106

EDITORIAL

If you’re in Australia, you might be pretty cold just now, but you’ll be hearing a lot about heatwaves, some extreme examples have been making...

Issue #2121

EDITORIAL

There have been some natural disasters in the USA this month. In case you haven’t noticed, Anna Pha describes the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, following...

Issue #2149

Woodside gas project extension and COP31

The Pacific Elders’ Voice (PEV) notes with deep concern the recent decision by the Government of Australia (GOA) to extend the lifetime of its Woodside...

Issue #2162

AUKUS: Who pays?

People with disabilities, the aged, the sick, the unemployed and other social security recipients, the most vulnerable in the community and those who capitalism sees...

March for action to fight climate change, Paris, September 2025.

Issue #2165

Trump’s climate colonialism

US president Trump stunned and alarmed delegates with his arrogant and reckless one-hour rant to the UN’s 80th General Assembly on 23 September. Most notably,...

Issue #2170

Trigger backflip: ‘a deal for corporate profits’

The Albanese government is doing yet another backflip on policy. This time it relates to climate change – pretending to protect the environment and biodiversity...

Issue #2174

EDITORIAL

This last issue of Guardian, the Workers’ Weekly for 2025 comes to you on the edge of the ‘silly season,’ a time when everyone is...

Issue #2136

EDITORIAL

What do real action on Climate Change and the acronym Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) have in common? The answer is not ‘Donald Trump,’ although...

Issue #2145

Greenwashing to continue

Australia’s biggest gas company has two main priorities. One is to keep increasing its production and sale of gas. Another, according to Australian expert Ketan...

Issue #2147

Floods: the cost of inaction

Five lives were lost and an estimated 10,000 properties destroyed or damaged by the recent record-breaking torrential downpour along the east coast of NSW. Devastated...

Issue #2170

DINGO

US attacks on boats allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are “unacceptable” and must stop, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker...

Issue #2171

Net zero hijacked by fossil fuel polluters

Net zero emissions by 2050 is a target adopted internationally under the UN International Framework on Climate Change at the Paris Climate Conference in 2015...

Issue #2174

2026: Rights! Peace! Justice!

In 2025 a significant shift in international relations included the growing movement amongst the global south away from the US and former colonisers. A number...

Issue #2198

Heat waves coming here

The world is suffering from unprecedented temperatures as a record-breaking heat wave spreads across Europe, North America and into Asia, and Central America. The World...

Issue #2164

Carbon target deception

Just days after its final approval to the extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, Woodside’s North West Shelf,...

Issue #2172

COP30: Ground zero of climate crisis

“Climate change is no longer a threat of the future; it is a tragedy of the present,” said President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da...

Tom Price mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Issue #2120

WA government introduces exorbitant fee to lodge mining objections

The WA government has announced that they are imposing a large fee of $430 for West Australians to lodge objections to mining proposals, which has...

Issue #2202

EDITORIAL

Allister Heath is a right-wing British opinion columnist, easy to ridicule. There’s even a website which will generate Allister Heath headlines on any topic under...

Issue #2178

Fire season: Albanese adds petrol

Australia is breaking records, but not the sort to be proud of. Some parts of Australia recorded their highest temperatures ever this January. South Australia’s...

Issue #2133

EDITORIAL

Australia will have an election very soon. It could be as early as 12 April. So what’s on offer? As this edition of the Guardian,...

Issue #2148

Quotes of the Week

“this is about excellence, innovation, and American dominance on the world stage – something the MAGA movement is all about” Donald Trump Jnr on the...

Issue #2145

EDITORIAL

The term ‘mandate’ is always thrown around just after an election. The general rule is that if a party talks about something during the campaign...

Issue #2149

EDITORIAL

PM Albanese has said, and made sure it’s reported, that he won’t do anything too radical in his second term in power. By being so...

Issue #2154

Renewables, not gas powering clean energy

Asked what his legacy would be, Anthony Albanese said “action on climate.” Since being elected his government has made over 30 coal and gas approvals,...

Issue #2144

Labor has no mandate

The Albanese government has no mandate to implement its anti-people agenda. Behind the swing to Labor in terms of seats in the Lower House, the...

climate change

The Guardian • climate change

Xi calls for stronger global actions on climate change

Fighter jets or green electricity

World on the edge of an abyss: UN Secretary-General

We need a working class climate plan, not capitalist greenwashing

Xi calls for “unprecedented ambition, action” to build community of life

Tackling the slow death of Mother Earth

China is a responsible major country in addressing climate change

WEASEL WORDS

Activists gather as African Climate Summit opens

Albanese and Plibersek need to ‘do their jobs’ as Great Barrier Reef suffers ‘underwater bushfire’

Africa climate crisis alert: 1.5ºC limit ‘shattered’

Will we follow our allies this time?

Rushing towards tipping points

Papua New Guinea: disaster and the hand of capital

A Cohesive Society After Capitalism

Wildfires hit Canada

HALF OF THE SKY

Don’t use ‘overcapacity’ to harm economic globalisation

The legacy hanging over Fukushima ten years on from disaster

Australian-UK-US nuclear submarine deal exposes civilian-military links

Guna People of Panama

Who’s Minding the Farm

Slick – Australia’s toxic relationship with Big Oil

Rallies in Perth push for climate action

Nauru invokes the Law of the Sea to begin deep seabed mining by 2022

Conservation, climate and communities

Flood, fire and famine

What is to be done, and how not to do it

GLOBAL BRIEFS

GLOBAL BRIEFS

HALF THE SKY

“Fighting for the future – class and climate”

UN IPCC Report: Australia’s role

The farce of BHP turning away from fossil fuels

Coalition presses the UK to remove climate targets from trade deal

School strike for climate change

Death knell for fossil fuels

Climate activist pays the price for government inaction

Capitalism’s Global Food Crisis

Biden anti-China tariffs threaten global economy

Heat wave emergency impacts animals in South East Asia

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Imperialism and sub-Saharan Africa

Climate change: false promises & false hope

UN IPCC Report

Morrison’s devious campaigning on climate change (amongst other things)

A reflection on climate change in Western Australia and New South Wales

Sham carbon projects have cost taxpayers $1 billion

Diversity – sustainability – socialism

The great carbon fraud

School strike for action on climate change

GREEN NOTES

LETTTERS

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Australia fails the Pacific islands

Greenwashing dirty investments

Energy transition authority critical to creating secure jobs for a safer climate

Coal industry workers in Australia are taking their destiny into their own hands

DINGO

Fossil fuels to the bitter end

GLOBAL BRIEFS

‘The Fate of Food’ by Amanda Little

The world’s poor suffer and die as 1.5ºC breached

Climate casual: YouTube, the free market, and false hope

GLOBAL BRIEFS

Earth Day – Our Power, Our Planet

Elon Musk undoing Tesla benefits with AI power plants

Renewable energy to meet 100% consumer demand at certain times of the day by 2025

Climate change: Capitalism killing the earth

Keep money out of politics

Open letter to the Prime Minister of Australia

DINGO

Listen to the science! State of the environment report

A peace & peoples’ budget

Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Australian Birds

Boao Forum 2024 – Green Development, leadership, and lessons for Australia

Australian coal: the state of play

Hope from a greener China