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Labor spends $1.5 million in taxpayer funds to attend climate change summit
Sky News host Paul Murray discusses a $1.5 million taxpayer bill, which sent 75 public servants to attend a UN climate change ...
A top court has urged nations to clamp down on fossil fuel production. When will Australia finally start listening?
As Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen tours the Pacific this week to spruik his government’s commitment to ...
UN vote to phase out fossil fuels tests climate commitments
Countries are set to vote at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday on a pledge to phase out fossil fuels to fight climate ...
‘Rubbish’: Taxpayers fund $1.5 million climate summit trip despite increased carbon emissions
Nationals Senator Matt Canavan discusses $1.5 million of taxpayer funding for 75 Australian public servants to attend a UN ...
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The Australia-Tuvalu climate migration treaty is a drop in the ocean
Australia has offered a lifeline to the people of Tuvalu, whose island is threatened by rising sea levels. But the deal comes ...
Tuvalu’s ‘climate visa’ to Australia: Is it the beginning of a mass exodus from the island nation?
In just four days, over one-third of Tuvalu’s 10,000 citizens applied for a new Australian visa enabling permanent migration ...
Australia learns to battle simultaneous floods and droughts
“Flood, fire and drought are features of the Australian environment. Farmers understand that and as the climate becomes more volatile they recognise those challenges and how to deal with [them].
$1.5m taxpayer bill for 75 public servants to attend UN climate change summit
Taxpayers spent more than $1.5m sending at least 75 public servants to a UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan last year at ...
A changing environment — Pacific tuna industry threatened by climate change
Tuna migration patterns in the Pacific are changing. And the stakes are high, not just for the economies and livelihoods of ...
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More Than One-Third of Tuvalu’s Population Has Applied for a ‘Climate Visa’ to Relocate to Australia
The world-first climate visa agreement will grant permanent residency status to 280 Tuvaluans per year as the island nation ...
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What is Australia’s climate visa and why is Tuvalu embracing it so rapidly?
In just four days, approximately one-third of Tuvalu’s population, around 4,000 people, including family members, applied for ...