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‘Jaws’ impact may be wearing off as shark perceptions soften

3 December 2025 AIMN Editorial 2
UniSA Media Release Teeth. Ocean. Predator. These are the three most common words used to describe sharks, according to a new global survey published in Wildlife Research, eliciting 1000 different text responses. Despite fear driving […]
COP30 summit concludes with mixed outcome.
Environment

COP30 falls short, offering a ‘spark of hope but far more heartbreak’

25 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 3
Oxfam Australia Media Release In response to the outcome of COP30, Oxfam Australia Policy and Advocacy Lead Josie Lee says: “Australia made some incremental progress at COP30, but the biggest barrier to meaningful climate action […]
Protesters holding "Make Polluters Pay" signs.
Environment

Whatever the COP31 venue, ‘Australia must perform’, says Greenpeace, as Türkiye confirmed as COP31 host

20 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 4
Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release SYDNEY/BELÉM, BRAZIL, Wednesday 19 November 2025 – As Türkiye is confirmed as the COP31 host, Greenpeace Australia Pacific has urged the Australian government to show leadership and use its role […]
COP30 Brasil Amazônia Belém 2025 sign.
Environment

Australia’s silence becoming deafening, as momentum builds for COP30 roadmap away from fossil fuels

19 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 2
Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release BELÉM, BRAZIL, Tuesday 18 November 2025 – In response to the COP30 ministerial level press conference on a ‘Mutirão Call for a Fossil Fuel Roadmap’ Dr Simon Bradshaw, COP31 Lead […]
Cartoon critiquing renewable energy and coal industry.
Environment

The renewable recycling lie: the zombie myth the fossil-fuel lobby can’t let die

15 November 2025 Lachlan McKenzie 33
Every few months, like clockwork, the fossil-fuel lobby resurrects its favourite zombie myth: “Renewables can’t be recycled. They’ll just end up on the trash heap.” It wasn’t true in 2015. It wasn’t true in 2020. […]
Tweet about Liberal party's climate stance.
Environment

Backing down from net zero puts people and communities at risk

13 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 4
ACOSS Media Release The Liberal Party’s decision to abandon the commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 puts people, communities and the environment at risk. This threat is most acute for people and communities experiencing […]
Liberals drop net zero climate policy announcement.
Environment

Liberal Party abandons net zero by 2050 climate target

13 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 2
Monash University Media Release The Liberal Party has agreed to formally abandon its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, following a vote in which a majority of members supported removing the target. A Monash […]
Earth with stethoscope, Doctors for Environment Australia.
Environment

Doctors describe Liberal MP’s attempts to drop net zero as “reckless”

11 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 29
Doctors for the Environment Media Release Doctors call on the Liberal Party to resist caving in to pressure to abandon net zero, as doing so will put Australian lives at risk. The call comes ahead […]
#COP30 UN Climate Change Conference signage.
Environment

COP30 in Belém must be a turning point for global climate and forest action

10 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 12
Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release As the COP30 UN climate conference begins in Belém, Brazil today, Greenpeace Australia Pacific is urging the Australian government to drive forward the action needed to close the 1.5C ambition […]
Industrial gas flare with black smoke.
Environment

Leaked report confirms WA gas is derailing the clean energy transition in Asia

6 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 8
Greenpeace Australia Pacific Media Release A Deloitte report leaked to the media, commissioned by the government of Western Australia, confirms WA’s gas exports are fuelling the climate crisis by delaying Asia’s clean energy transition, says Greenpeace. […]
Man beside "Net Zero Dumped" text.
Environment

Regional Australians react to the Nationals’ backflip on net zero

4 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 4
Climate Media Centre The Nationals’ decision to ditch net zero fails to protect the best interests of the regional Australians they claim to represent. Regional Australians are the most impacted by climate change. Doing less […]
Politician discusses Australia's climate policy change.
Environment

Nationals’ net zero backflip would escalate disaster costs for regional communities

3 November 2025 AIMN Editorial 6
Climate Council Media Release The Nationals’ decision to ditch the net zero position it signed up to in 2021 as part of the Coalition will be costly for regional communities and farmers being hit by […]
Solar panels and wind turbines in field.
Environment

Two decades of green progress in the Asia-Pacific

29 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 4
By Chen Ziqi   For the past two decades, APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, has been reshaping the Asia-Pacific’s approach to growth. Since the 2011 Honolulu Leaders’ Declaration, APEC has placed “green growth” at […]
Koala sitting in a deforested landscape.
Environment

“Shameful”: Study shows only a third of Australia’s mature forests remain

28 October 2025 AIMN Editorial 0
Australian Conservation Foundation Media Release New analysis from the Australian Conservation Foundation has highlighted the enormous scale of deforestation in Australia, exacerbated by ‘deforestation loopholes’ and weak nature laws that provide special carve outs to […]
Environmental protest illustration with deforestation, corporations, laws.
Environment

Australia’s Environmental Policy Crisis: A Closer Look

27 October 2025 David Tyler 14
Labor’s Eco Renaissance: Destroying the Joint, Sensitively As federal parliament resumes its familiar variety show of “Consensus or Catastrophe”, the Labor government unveils another environmental revolution; provided it doesn’t trouble its donors in hi-vis or […]

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