Australia will meet its 2030 emissions reduction target of 26 to 28 per cent "in a canter", Prime Minister Scott Morrison has repeatedly said, but with emissions consistently increasing, it hasn't always been clear how that will happen.
Australia is being warned its return to its Pacific neighbours after years of neglect risks being undermined by the Government's intransigence on the region's main threat: climate change.
While parts of the Eungella National Park subtropical rainforest have been reduced to cinders, the community is determined to not let the fire win.
Following a disaster, renters can face eviction, homelessness or be forced to live in a damaged property. Many don't have the insurance to cope, but it's not because they can't afford it, write Kate Isabel Booth and Chloe Lucas.
Australian company directors nominate climate change as the number one issue they want the government to address in the long-term, in a survey of more than 1,200 business leaders.
The world got a stark warning on climate change this week, but if Australia is to act on it and hit the IPCC's coal-generated electricity reduction target, 12 power plants will need to close, according to a report from the Parliamentary Library.
The very existence of Tibet's traditional nomads is under threat, as glaciers melt and grassland turns to desert. But that's not the only hazard — the tech industry's thirst for lithium is also causing concern.
When it comes to our emissions targets, it's not so much a case of alternative facts, as a case of ignore the facts or pretend they don't exist, writes Stephen Long.
Federal Labor has pledged to withdraw the $443 million given to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. But the foundation's decisions are led by science and free of undue influence, writes its chief scientist Peter J Mumby.