UN Climate Conference
Trump wants to ‘drill, baby, drill’. This Australian giant is happy to help
Oil and gas giant Woodside is expanding in the US under its American chief executive. Over brunch in New York, Meg O’Neill explains why she thinks the climate conversation has fundamentally changed.
- Michael Koziol
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Undermined and underdone: How Australia’s climate talks bid failed
On Monday night in Brazil, the mood among the Australian contingent at the United Nations conference was high. Three days later, the nation’s hosting tilt was over.
- Bianca Hall, Nick O'Malley and Mike Foley
- Updated
- Climate policy
Turkey refused to budge, so Australia caved. Why is Albanese still calling it a win?
Australia ditched its bid to host the United Nations COP global climate conference in the final days of a three-year effort, but the Albanese government is still claiming a win.
- Mike Foley, Bianca Hall and Nick O'Malley
Australia’s top coach diverts from Ashes to notch up a ton with son
Head coach Andrew McDonald has a lot on his plate, but he found time to take apart the bowling in a fourth-grade match at his local cricket field.
- Stephen Brook
- Opinion
- Paris Agreement
Two words in Sussan Ley’s nonsensical net zero press conference might come back to haunt her
The Coalition’s abandonment of credible climate policy has far more to do with virtue-signalling than it does with climate science or economics.
- Nick O'Malley
- Opinion
- Climate solutions
If Australia does not host COP31, it’s a strategic surrender
The Coalition and the Herald say money spent on an expensive summit should go to something more useful for Australians. They’re wrong.
- Tina Latif
- Analysis
- Paris Agreement
If this is the world’s most hopeful chart, then why are we staring at catastrophe?
It starts with great news – but it gets worse. And in Brazil, world leaders hope progress can be accelerated on slowing a catastrophe.
- Nick O'Malley
Germany the winner if Australia and Turkey deadlocked on bid for climate summit
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hopes to use UN assembly to persuade Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to drop rival bid for COP summit.
- Nick O'Malley
Albanese government faces backlash for failing to lock in climate talks
Despite years of effort and the support of its UN peers, Australia has been unable to convince Turkey to pull out of the race to host global climate talks.
- Nick O'Malley
Albanese flies to South America on trade rescue mission after Trump victory
The prime minister is seeking to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping within days to shore up a $327 billion economic relationship.
- David Crowe