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Opposition leader Sussan Ley takes her seat for Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 25 August 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Canavan leads group of five demanding Coalition debate scrapping net zero

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has ordered an internal review of emissions targets, but the topic that almost split the Coalition is back on the agenda.

  • Paul Sakkal

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Australia’s renewable energy transition is the biggest driver of greenhouse emissions cuts.

As Coalition battles, government says it’s on track for climate cuts

Australia’s national greenhouse emissions fell 1.4 per cent in the year to March 2025 and are sitting at 28 per cent below 2005 levels.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Climate Change Authority chairman Matt Kean (left) and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen.

Australians have their say on new climate targets as Coalition prepares for another brawl on net zero

A more ambitious 2035 emissions-reduction target gets support from a range of Australians, even from Coalition voters.

  • James Massola and Paul Sakkal
Allan Lancaster had a battery installed at home in Truganina, Melbourne, installed after the rebates began.

‘Off like a rocket’: Battery rebate prompts massive rooftop power surge

The equivalent of South Australia’s Hornsdale big battery is being installed every 8.7 days after the rebates began.

  • Nick O'Malley
Matt Kean, the former Liberal NSW treasurer now serving as chair of the Climate Change Authority.

How do you decarbonise an economy? Line by line, says Matt Kean

The Liberal Party true believer finds himself at the centre of one of the Albanese Labor government’s most confounding policy challenges.

  • Nick O'Malley and Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Residents remove mud to recover an rickshaw from debris after flash flooding in Mingora in Pakistan’s north-west.

Flash floods kill more than 360 in Pakistan, India

The floods came so fast that many people could not leave their homes, one eyewitness said, as forecasters warn of more rain to come.

  • Swati Gupta, Faseeh Mangi, Muhammad Sajjad and Riaz Khan
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Three companies are actively trying to achieve “real zero” - Fortescue Mining, IKEA and Lendlease. 

Forget net zero. We need ‘real zero’ – and these companies prove it’s profitable

Three huge global companies – IKEA, Lendlease and Fortescue Mining – are heading towards real zero. If they can do it, so can everyone.

  • Claire Snyder
Sections of the Great Barrier Reef suffered their largest annual decline in coral cover due to bleaching during 2024.

Great Barrier Reef suffers record coral decline, mass bleaching

Year upon year of marine heatwaves are battering the Great Barrier Reef, the most recent survey of coral coverage shows.

  • Nick O'Malley
Index image for Nick O’Malley analysis on 2035 Carbon reduction target

What’s in a number? New carbon target sparks new climate warfare

Australia needs to come up with its next emission reduction target under its commitment to the Paris Agreement. The lobbying is intensifying.

  • Nick O'Malley
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during question time on Tuesday.

Go big on climate plans, Labor MPs tell Albanese, as net zero fight rages

The MPs demanded ambition as leading economist Ross Garnaut said Australia’s renewable energy transition was “sick”.

  • Nick O'Malley, Paul Sakkal and Caitlin Fitzsimmons