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Byline: Peter Walker Nigel Farage has defended making another trip to the US, where he is speaking at an event alongside a leading far-right Austrian politician whose party has opposed [...]

Byline: Editorial Sir Keir Starmer's legislative plan to green Britain has arrived not a moment too soon. Last week, the government's advisers warned that only a third of the carbon [...]

Byline: Aliya Uteuova Fourteen state attorney generals are urging the federal government to declare extreme heat and wildfire smoke major disasters. The petition comes as millions of people in the [...]

Byline: Hannah Al-Othman A handmade banner bearing the words 'Generation Fucked' hangs in the window of Earache Records in Nottingham. It is a relic of a past band signed by [...]

Byline: Antoun Issa Afternoon. The former NSW state politician Matt Kean has been named as the new chair of the Climate Change Authority. The Albanese government announced the former New [...]

Byline: Peter Hannam The federal Labor government has appointed prominent New South Wales Liberal Matt Kean as the new chair of the Climate Change Authority. Here's a short explainer on [...]

I read your reports on the European elections, including your assessment that the political landscape has moved to the right ( EU elections 2024: how did key countries vote and [...]

Byline: Editorial As tractor protests broke out last year over plans to slash nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands' agricultural sector, one conspiracy theory suggested farmland was to be taken over [...]

Byline: Damian Carrington Environment editor The host of the UN Cop28 summit, the United Arab Emirates, planned to use climate meetings with other countries to promote deals for its national [...]

Byline: Katharine Murphy It's been a high octane few weeks for the Albanese government when it comes to managing complexity on the global stage. We'll get to keeping the US [...]

Byline: Margaret Sullivan The process was appalling, and the outcome even more so, as Republicans in the House of Representatives finally found someone they could more or less agree on. [...]

Byline: Tamsin Rose A post-mortem of the New South Wales Liberals election defeat in March has pointed to the damage done by the Morrison government's record on climate change, women [...]

Byline: Maya Yang block-time published-time 3.27pm BST Massachusetts's Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has criticized the Republican-led House following days of political in-fighting as Republicans continue to struggle to decide on [...]

Byline: Sarah Collard First Nations people living in some of the remotest parts of the country say they still lack information about the voice to parliament only weeks out from [...]

Byline: Paul Taylor When Donald Trump lost the White House in 2020, Europe's strongmen, populists and climate change deniers lost a powerful ally and a protector. Yet most of Europe's [...]

Byline: Matthew Taylor, Pamela Duncan and Ajit Niranjan Politicians across Europe have a moral responsibility to urgently tackle the continent's dangerously polluted air, according to Maria Neira, the director of [...]

Byline: Oliver Milman John Kerry, the US climate envoy, has called for more rapid action to confront the climate crisis in a crucial visit to China that is taking place [...]

Byline: Neal Lawson With our forlorn sense that politics isn't working and that democracy is broken, as we feel the impacts of both climate change and the decision to leave [...]

Byline: Leyland Cecco in Toronto Record-breaking wildfires have charred more than a million hectares of land in Alberta, pushing tens of thousands from their homes and choking the skies in [...]

Byline: Martin Farrer Morning everyone. Armed with two large stacks of folders, the independent MP Andrew Wilkie ended the parliamentary week with an extraordinary set of accusations about the Hillsong [...]

Byline: Helena Horton Environment reporter Post-Brexit trade deals with Canada and Mexico will include imports of high-carbon beef and low-welfare pork, the Guardian can reveal. There are fears there could [...]

Byline: Astra Taylor For years, advocates like myself have been saying that canceling student debt should be a political no-brainer. In addition to being economically smart and ethically just, it [...]

Byline: Sam Jones in Madrid The Spanish government has urged Rishi Sunak to demonstrate a clear commitment to fighting the climate emergency, describing the British government's flip-flopping over the prime [...]

Byline: Tamsin Rose and Benita Kolovos Climate change is rendering terms like 'one-in-100-year' flood useless and flood maps across Australia need to be uniformly updated immediately so communities and agencies [...]

Byline: Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent John Kerry has urged China to return to the negotiating table with the US on the climate crisis to kickstart stalled global progress on cutting [...]

Byline: Malcolm Farr The passing of the historic climate change bill and its emissions reduction objectives this week is a government triumph, but it also carries the imprint of a [...]

Byline: David Sirota and Joel Warner This week, the Lever, ProPublica and the New York Times discovered the largest known political advocacy donation in American history. We exposed a reclusive [...]

Byline: Sarah Martin Chief political correspondent The Greens will move to legislate a new energy transition authority when parliament resumes next month, as unions call on the government to amend [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly In a bullish interview, the White House chief of staff, Ron Klain, compared Joe Biden's achievements in his first two years in office to historic successes under [...]

Byline: Chris Stein block-time published-time 2.26pm BST Here's the meat of White House chief of staff Ron Klain's argument to American voters, as he put it to Politico : 'Elections [...]

Byline: Chris Stein in Washington block-time published-time 2.20pm BST Kyrsten Sinema was among the reasons why Joe Biden 's marquee spending package, Build Back Better, did not pass last year. [...]

Byline: Letters Keir Starmer appears determined to back himself into a corner. In the last few days, he has declared that electoral reform is not a priority and that he [...]

Byline: Helena Horton This weekend, I received a call from a well-known green Conservative, telling me to stop using the phrase 'net zero' in my articles and tweets about the [...]

Byline: Helena Horton Environment reporter Just 60 MPs are expected to attend an emergency climate briefing by the government's chief scientific adviser in parliament on Monday, the Guardian has learned. [...]

Byline: Chris Stein in Washington block-time published-time 2.13pm BST Democrats bargain over climate with a familiar obstacle: Joe Manchin Good morning, US politics blog readers. Democrats are using what may [...]

Byline: Daniel Sherrell On Thursday, the supreme court of the United States struck down the EPA's Clean Power Plan, sharply limiting the federal government's ability to fight climate change. With [...]

Byline: Katharine Murphy Political editor Liberal moderate Bridget Archer says she wants to work with the Albanese government to establish a federal anti-corruption body, and possibly on climate change, because [...]

Byline: Sarah Martin The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has sought to deflect blame for the national energy crisis, saying there is 'fault all round', while blaming states for locking up [...]

Byline: Chris York Good morning. Anthony Albanese has made his global debut, using his first meeting with world leaders as PM to indicate Australia is ready to take greater action [...]

Byline: Martin Farrer in Sydney Australia's Labor party has come to power, pushing the conservative Coalition out of office for the first time in almost a decade. Voters also delivered [...]

Byline: David Marr Preventing the future became the great cause of Coalition politics in this country under Tony Abbott. Social change? Stop it in its tracks. Climate change? Let coal [...]

Byline: Anne Davies A new poll has the independent Allegra Spender on track to claim the prize blue-ribbon seat of Wentworth in Sydney's east, with the Liberal MP Dave Sharma's [...]

Byline: Christopher Knaus Most prominent independent candidates say they would negotiate with either Labor or the Liberals in the event of a hung parliament, with many indicating they would support [...]

Byline: Anne Davies Until now, the contest between Liberal MP Jason Falinski and former middle distance runner and local GP Dr Sophie Scamps for Sydney's northern beaches seat of Mackellar [...]

Byline: Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent The government is to formally consider the impact of its flagship energy efficiency plan on people most at risk from soaring bills, citing the [...]

Byline: Jim Waterson Media editor Conservative MPs have queued up to criticise plans to privatise Channel 4, raising doubts over whether the government has the parliamentary support required to sell [...]

Byline: Helena Horton and Damien Gayle Sir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, will address MPs about the climate crisis after a protester's hunger strike campaign. Angus Rose, 52, [...]

Byline: Nicola Slawson block-time published-time 9.26am BST Ed Miliband has said that a few Tory backbenchers have been 'holding the government's energy policy to ransom'. Speaking to the BBC, Labour's [...]

Byline: Jessica Elgot A Labour MP is to appear on stage with Nigel Farage at the launch of an anti-net zero campaign for a referendum on policies to tackle climate [...]