While Trump was ranting at the UN General Assembly last week, telling countries they were ‘going to hell’, others were leading the way, with Colombia and Vanuatu announcing the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in 2026.

The Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has rejected Verdant Earth Technologies’ biomass power plans at Redbank Power Station on the same day the government released the country's first National Climate Risk Assessment which highlighted Australians are at risk from more frequent and severe flooding, cyclones, heatwaves, droughts and bushfires. 

Following record-breaking floods on NSW’s Mid North Coast that have left almost 800 homes uninhabitable, 38 former emergency service commissioners and chief officers from every state and territory are calling on the federal government to immediately release its completed National Climate Risk Assessment, so communities and emergency services can better prepare for more frequent and destructive disasters, supercharged by climate change.