National climate emergency declared by House of Commons

The House of Commons passed a motion to declare a national climate emergency in Canada on Monday night.

Canada's Environment and Climate Change Minister, Catherine McKenna.

The motion was put forward by Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna, and it passed with 186 votes to 63.

It declares a national climate emergency, and supports the country’s commitment to meeting the emissions targets outlined in the Paris Agreement.

Read the story from Global News by Hannah Jackson - “National climate emergency declared by House of Commons.”

Q&A recap: Trash TV gets serious as panel tackles war on waste

Monday night was bin night on Q&A, the program where the nation gathers around to sort the recycling of the previous week and argue over who the hell is responsible for all this trash.

AddOz Harvest CEO Ronni Kahn.

Yes, the ABC has hit on a winning formula, and it's rubbish. Who'd have guessed that one man's trash would prove a television treasure - a load of national rubbish that keeps on giving?

That one man - Craig Reucassel - was on the Q&A panel, having reinvented himself from Chaser larrikin to the high priest of the garbage generation in his ABC series War On Waste. This was a big and boldly executed hit for the national broadcaster last year, and on the eve of launching series two, Q&A was keen to capitalise on Australia’s fascination with its plastic-wrapped penchant for consuming itself to environmental exhaustion.

Read the story by Neil McMahon from The Age - "Q&A recap: Trash TV gets serious as panel tackles war on waste.”

'We’re losing the battle’ on climate change: chief scientist

Australia's chief scientist, Alan Finkel -
"Earth's losing the battle"
against climate change.

Australia’s chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel has warned that the planet is “losing the battle” against climate change, after it emerged that Earth had warmed to “dangerous” levels in February 2016.

On Saturday, NASA reported that Earth’s average surface temperature was 1.35 degrees (Celsius) warmer than the 1951-1980 baseline used by the agency.

“You wouldn’t want to dismiss it. There is genuine reason for concern,” Dr Finkel said on the ABC’s Q&A program on Monday night

Read The New Daily story - “‘We’re losing the battle’ on climate change: Q&A.”