Climate policy
Analysis
Analysis
How surging insurance bills could help us deal with climate change
Insurance increases – and some areas being declared uninsurable – are a price signal from a hotter, riskier planet. Will they end up driving our adaptation to the climate crisis?
- by Liam Mannix
Latest
Not in my back paddock: Farmers’ power lines protest goes to town
The mounting community backlash against new transmission lines needed to shift the electricity grid from coal-fired power to renewable energy looms as a crucial fight for federal and state governments.
- by Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Judge sides with young in first-of-its-kind US climate change trial
The ruling adds to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change.
- by Matthew Brown and Amy Beth Hanson
Gallery: Fighting not sinking
Age photographer Eddie Jim captures a paradise under threat as the Kioan Climate Emergency Declaration is held on Kioa Island, Fiji.
Thousands of Labor members take climate challenge to Albanese
The prime minister will face calls for greater ambition on climate change as well as questions over the AUKUS pact.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
Renewables
How I learnt to stop worrying and love Biden’s IRA
Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is transforming energy policy in the US and Australia needs to get with the program, fast.
- by Nick O'Malley
Welcoming the Pacific Political Climate Champion
Tuvaluan Minister of Finance and Climate Seve Paeniu, arrives in Salia, on Kioa, Fiji.
Clean energy push hits hurdle amid fight over farmland
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is facing a farmer revolt over plans for vast networks of power lines needed to shift the electricity grid from coal-fired to renewable energy.
- by Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
ABC admits Four Corners knew about Woodside protest – but show will go on
The national broadcaster’s managing director says a review of the crew’s conduct leading up to and during the protest found they did know about it in advance.
- by Hamish Hastie
Sweden’s bold plan to build a new ‘city’ out of wood
The southern suburbs of Stockholm are about to become a beacon of wooden architecture on a global scale.
- by Rob Harris
Yes in my backyard: Nationals happy to go nuclear
Nationals MPs are backing deployment of nuclear power in their electorates as the Coalition pushes for a coal to nuclear technology shift.
- by Mike Foley and James Massola