Climate Council puts top 10 corporate polluters on notice with personal letter

The Climate Council says it’s time to end the free ride for Australia’s biggest polluters, with the Climate Council issuing a direct challenge to the country’s worst offenders to clean up their acts. As the Labor Government draws up plans for reforming a regulation that’s supposed to be reducing pollution (known as the Safeguard Mechanism) […]

Climate Council says Australia should be cutting its emissions 21 times faster

According to the Climate Council the race is on to respond to accelerating climate change with rapid and deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions this decade, but the latest federal government data shows Australia’s pollution is only creeping down. Analysis by the Climate Council shows that Australia should be cutting its emissions 21 times faster […]

One year since Royal Commission report into Natural Disaster Arrangements released

The Climate Council is angry that it’s one year since the Bushfire Royal Commission released its final report on the horrific 2019/20 fire season, and it’s clear that the federal government has dropped the ball on delivering the Commission’s urgent recommendations. The Royal Commission into Natural Disaster Arrangements report, responding to the horrific 2019/20 fire […]

Climate Council calls for a net zero commitment with rapid emission cuts

The Climate Council says a national net zero target is long overdue, and must be accompanied by accelerated action to deeply cut emissions this decade so Australians can reap the economic benefits of a global transformation. The net zero by 2050 announcement, and an indication that Australia may exceed its weak 2030 emissions target by […]