Keith McNeill

Labor will never have a better time to revisit carbon pricing – but does it have the stomach to make polluters pay? | Clear Air The government has not made enough of a dent in emissions, but global trends and a shambolic opposition offer a rare opportunity to act

The head of the Productivity Commission, Danielle Wood, lamented that by abandoning carbon pricing, Australia was ignoring the cheapest way of cutting pollution
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Economics has failed on the climate crisis. This complexity scientist has a mind-blowing plan to fix that Doyne Farmer says a super-simulator of the global economy would accelerate the transition to a green, clean world

Mainstream economics assumes economic actors make perfect, rational decisions and that the economy is in equilibrium. Complexity science is more like the real world
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months - Carbon Brief China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the final quarter of 2025, likely securing a decline of 0.3% for the full year as a whole.

The CO2 numbers imply that China’s carbon intensity – its fossil-fuel emissions per unit of GDP – fell by 12% during 2020-25
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Former Nigerian oil minister stands trial in the UK on bribery charges - ICIJ Prosecutors accused former minister Diezani Alison-Madueke, who featured in the ICIJ-led Panama Papers investigation, of living a “life of luxury in London” fueled by corrupt Nigerian oil deals.

Britain’s National Crime Agency has accused Diezani Alison-Madueke of improperly influencing multimillion-dollar oil contracts in return for bribes
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Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware

In a hothouse Earth scenario, global temperature stays significantly above the 4C rise of current worst-case climate scenarios for thousands of years
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China’s 10,000-Ton All-Electric Feeder Is a Shipping Signal?and a Critical-Minerals Signal China's 740-TEU electric container ship begins trials, signaling shift in feeder logistics and rising demand for batteries and NdPr magnets.

Power is stored in 10 containerized battery units that can be shore-charged or swapped like cargo containers. This is not a laboratory experiment
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US judiciary scraps climate chapter from scientific evidence manual The chapter was removed after Republican state attorneys-general argued it was biased against fossil fuel companies. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A letter from 27 Republican state attorneys-general argued that the chapter in a manual for judges grappling with issues involving scientific testimony was biased against fossil fuel companies
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Heat with no end: climate model sets out an unbearable future for parts of Africa By the end of this century, parts of Africa could face heatwaves for 250-300 days a year, which will make it difficult for people to survive.

Research finds that by the late 21st century, most of Africa will no longer experience occasional heatwaves but will instead endure extreme heat for most of the year. This will not be just a slight warming
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Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

"GDP tells us the cost of everything, and the value of nothing."
– António Guterres, UN secretary general
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Chance of El Niño forming in Pacific Ocean may push global temperatures to record highs in 2027 One expert says 2027 could be even hotter than the last three years, which have been the top three warmest on record

“If El Niño develops later this year it will likely peak around November-January and primarily impact 2027 global surface temperatures, rather than 2026."
– Dr Zeke Hausfather, Berkeley Earth
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‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain - Inside Climate News Lack of a state floodplain policy in Texas enabled oil companies to build in areas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

If the flood of 1998 on the Guadaloupe River in Texas occurred today, it would cover at least 22 tank batteries containing 144 individual oil and wastewater tanks with 10 or more feet of water
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MethaneSAT Releases First Global Assessment of Oil and Gas Climate Pollution - Inside Climate News Nearly a year after the Environmental Defense Fund lost contact with an $88 million satellite, data from the spacecraft reveal higher-than-expected methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.

An initial assessment of MethaneSAT data shows that methane emissions from oil and gas basins worldwide far exceed what is reported in official emissions inventories
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Global warming acceleration implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury, says climate scientist Dr. James Hansen
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UK to cut climate finance to poor countries by a fifth despite promising more help Exclusive: Campaigners say proposed cut from £11.9bn over past five years to £9bn over next five years will cost lives and livelihoods

“If the UK breaks its commitments, it gives cover for others to do the same, with devastating consequences for global climate action.”
– Mohamed Adow, Power Shift Africa
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Looking Ahead to When Gas Stations Vanish - Inside Climate News Leaders should plan for declining demand that will undermine the viability of fossil fuel businesses. New research says it could happen sooner than we think.

“There are a lot of different factors that could lead to disproportionate closures all of the sudden at gas stations.”
– Joshua Lappen, University of Notre Dame
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Climate risk becomes a matter of security The destabilisation of the #AMOC is no longer a distant scenario - it’s a national and global security risk. Iceland’s Climate Minister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson and I outline actions to tackle this thre...

Among the most serious and imminent climate risks is crossing the tipping point for destabilization of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC)
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House Committee Backs Climate Aligned Finance Act, Urges Tougher Transition Rules for Banks Sen. Rosa Galvez’ proposed Climate Aligned Finance Act (CAFA) has received a boost from a House of Commons committee studying the impacts of Canada’s financial system on climate change and the environ...

“This report makes clear that voluntary measures are no longer sufficient. Canadians deserve credible transition plans, consistent reporting, and strong protections against greenwashing.”
– Rosa Galvez, Canadian senator
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Climate crisis could cause global financial crash Researchers say governments and financial institutions underestimating threat because they rely on models that assume climate crisis impacts will be gradual

“Until the gap between scientists and economists’ expectations of future climate damages is closed, financial institutions will continue to chronically under-price climate risks.”
– Mark Campanale, Carbon Tracker
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Analysis: Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025 - Carbon Brief Clean-energy technologies drove more than a third of the growth in China’s economy in 2025 – and more than 90% of the rise in investment.

China's clean-energy industries are expanding much more quickly than its overall economy, with their annual growth rate accelerating from 12% in 2024 to 18% in 2025
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China's coal plant surge despite renewable energy records China rapidly builds coal-fired power plants to meet energy demands, risking climate targets despite record investments in renewable energy. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.co...

China already meets its annual electricity demand growth through wind, solar, battery storage, and grid upgrades. Yet, coal remains central to the government’s need for energy security
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A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before Governments have been warned about climate change for 70 years. They’re still suppressing the worst news.

"The situation is not better than we are told. It’s actually far worse."
– Marc Hudson, University of Sussex
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Climate change first ‘went viral’ exactly 70 years ago In May 1953, scientist Gilbert Plass made some extraordinarily prescient comments.

"The large increase in industrial activity during the present century is discharging so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that the average temperature is rising at the rate of 1.5º per century."
– Gilbert Plass, in 1953
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Landslides on one side, floods on the other: the Costa Rican village desperate to escape the climate crisis With government action stalled and living in ‘inhumane’ conditions, families in San José are making plans to relocate

As the climate crisis has intensified, hurricanes have hit Costa Rica hard, including Otto in 2016, Nate in 2017 and Eta and Iota in 2020
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B.C. would struggle to contain oil spill off north coast, research suggests It’s a few minutes after midnight on a day in late December. An Aframax tanker—laden with bitumen from a new pipeline running to British Columbia’s north coast—battles a fierce Arctic wind.

A study by Living Oceans concluded wave height alone makes containment and cleanup of an oil spill across B.C.’s north coast impossible about 30% of the year, with that number rising to 80% in the stormiest winter months
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Iran’s biggest centres of protest are also experiencing extreme pollution and water shortages Shortages of water and power as well as rising air pollution in Iran are at the centre of why citizens are telling their government they want change.

"What Iran sees today is not simply environmental stress but irreversible simultaneous failures across water, land, air and energy."
– Nima Shokri, United Nations University
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Africa Solar Capacity Seen Rising Sixfold After 2025 Record Africa recorded its fastest solar growth on record in 2025, driven by a surge in utility-scale projects, and could add more than six times last year’s annual capaci…

“This is the technology that can bring energy access, sustainable development, green growth and resilience to natural disasters and extreme weather.”
– Sonia Dunlop, Global Solar Council
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Day and night, there’s no relief: five ways this heatwave is one of Australia’s worst on record Soaring temperatures, heat at altitude and hot summer nights combine to create one of south-eastern Australia’s ‘most significant’ heatwaves

When the opal mining town of Andamooka (population 262) in the far north of South Australia reached 50ºC on Thursday, it was only the eighth time in recorded history anywhere in Australia
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One-Third of Pacific Island Fish Contaminated With Microplastics - Inside Climate News From the coral-covered coastlines of Tonga to the remote sandy atolls of Tuvalu, microscopic synthetic fibers are infiltrating the region’s species and food systems. One-third of fish living in Pacifi...

“This kind of data gives Pacific Island countries a stronger evidence base to argue for ambitious, upstream solutions.”
– Amanda Ford, University of the South Pacific
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America’s wildfire risk data quietly puts millions of homes in danger Federal models keep missing homes that burn. A new AI tool zooms in.

New AI models reveal where fire hazards were underestimated and can calculate threats down to individual homes rather than broad census tracts
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