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The City of Sydney Lord Mayoral Team, from left: a woman with dark hair and tortoiseshell glasses in a white blazer and blue top, a man with dark hair and a light shirt under a navy suit, a woman with dark skin in a black dress with a traditional style necklace, a woman in a black suit with dark hair and an older man in a dark suit and tie. They are laughing at the camera.

City of Sydney makes the move to net zero

Danielle Kutchel, Tuesday, 30th August 2022 -  Developers and the City of Sydney council have joined forces in support of new regulations that will help the city reach its net zero goal.
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Opening 10 new oil and gas sites is a win for fossil fuel companies – but a staggering loss for the rest of Australia

Contributor, Friday, 26th August 2022 -  New oil and gas exploration licenses might be great news for some, but it's not good for all.

ClimateLaunchpad finalists revealed 

Samantha Freestone, Thursday, 25th August 2022 -  The competition aims to find Australia’s best and brightest innovators and entrepreneurs in the cleantech and innovation scene.

Newswrap: Government climate document goes out for consultation  

Samantha Freestone, Monday, 22nd August 2022 -  The Safeguard Mechanism originally created in 2016 places a limit on the amount of greenhouse gases Australia’s largest industrial facilities can emit. The federal government has updated the document and the reactions are largely positive.

Opinion

Climate Change young people

Children and young people must be part of the solution to climate change

Deb Tsorbaris, Monday, 22nd August 2022 -  We know that children and young people are experts on the matters affecting them, and should be consulted as such, writes Deb Tsorbaris.
The camera is looking through burnt trees on a blackened environment. Between the tree trunks is a grey kangaroo.

Government seeking collaboration to stop environmental decline

Danielle Kutchel, Tuesday, 19th July 2022 -  Australia’s environment is sick and getting worse, but the government is flagging a desire to work with the sector to address the mess.
A city street, featuring two restaurants with a billboard above them. The billboard has a picture of a male doctor on it, and the words 'coal, oil and gas ads are a health hazard'.

Calls to restrict fossil fuel advertising in the name of public health

Danielle Kutchel, Monday, 18th July 2022 -  Calls for a ban in Australia comes as hundreds of people die of heat-related causes in a heat wave across western Europe.

Opinion

Mystery Bay, one of eight communities on the NSW south coast selected for further microgrid studies.

The clean energy revolution isn’t just a techno-fix – it’s about capturing hearts and minds

Contributor, Wednesday, 29th June 2022 -  The climate crisis demands innovations in our everyday infrastructures. If these changes are to be adopted en masse, finding the right fit between communities and infrastructures is vital.
A red gas plant in the foreground with a city in the background, across the water.

ACF launches bid to have off-shore gas project reassessed

Danielle Kutchel, Tuesday, 28th June 2022 -  The Scarborough gas project would release more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, potentially endangering one of Australia’s most beloved environmental havens.

Opinion

Truck loaded with containers full of apples ready to be shipped.

The world’s affluent must start eating local food to tackle the climate crisis, new research shows

Contributor, Wednesday, 22nd June 2022 -  Since 1995, worldwide agricultural and food trade has more than doubled. It’s never been clearer that eating local produce is a powerful way to take action on climate change, write Arunima Malik and Mengyu Li from University of Sydney.
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