Environment
What does the Murray-Darling Basin Authority plan to do about climate change in its Murray-Darling Basin plan?
It will take a while for the global power system to phase out old power stations and be dominated by renewables, but the transition away from coal is proceeding much faster than imagined.
Canada's politicians, knowing full well that oil-sand crude represents a major economic opportunity, have been lobbying with stunning ferocity in Europe – but are their efforts working?
Weather catastrophes are striking with greater regularity, leaving insurers to re-assess the risks they are willing to take.
New divisions in geopolitics are putting sustainable growth and the push toward a clean economy at risk – and Rio+20 might end up having nothing to show for itself.

As the Asia-Pacific region develops, a UN report shows how prosperity can grow without causing a rise in carbon emissions. It is not as difficult or costly as it may sound.