This week, the administration released a series of sweeping proposals to encourage oil drilling and roll back protections for wetlands and endangered species.

The outcome of Brazil's COP30 climate summit was left hanging in the balance, with the European Union refusing to accept a draft deal it said would fail to advance global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change.

Instead of being remembered as historic, the conference will likely further erode confidence in a process that many environmentalists and even some world leaders have argued isn’t up to the

Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen’s co-presidency of next year’s UN climate change summit will grant Australia and the Pacific “unprecedented influence” in global climate negoti­ations, the government says.

A G20 draft leaders' declaration includes references to "climate change" in defiance of U.S. objections, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.