Elfy and Ant break down Labor's newly announced climate policy into easily digestible, bite-sized chunks. The policy comes with snappy titles like "Powering Australia" and "Rewiring the Nation". But will it recharge Labor's fortunes at the ballot box in 2022? Also this week, why heatwaves deserve names like cyclones, plus new research on how green spaces benefit us all in a surprising way!

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This week, Elfy Scott and Ant Sharwood discuss how majestic mountain ash is being turned into cardboard, how the federal government just turned states' rights on climate action to pulp, and how a green energy provider was gobbled up by Big Fossil Fuel. We also share the CSIRO's grim findings on the frequency and fierceness of bushfires. But it's not all bad news on The Green Canary. We've just found a great defence against mosquitoes, and it's better than insect repellent!

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The Hunter Valley, two hours north of Sydney, has had two very different industries operating at arm's length for almost two centuries. Now locals say a Chinese-owned coal company is looking at building coal mines a little too close to the grape vines.

Ant and Elfy uncork what's going on in wine country. They also discuss the scary place where climate denialisms have pivoted to, and share the results of a Danish study which reveals just how many disposable Covid masks we're throwing away every day...

All this and more on this week's Green Canary poddie!

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Welcome to the Green Canary podcast. Most weeks, we'll be bringing you a rundown of all the week's environment news.

But this week, inevitably, it's all about COP26, which just wrapped up in Glasgow.

So what came out of Glasgow except a whole lot of hot air at a conference whose very purpose was to agree on ways to cool the atmosphere.

Was COP26, as Greta Thunberg said, just a load of “blah blah blah”?

Elfy Scott and Ant Sharwood break down the good things that came out of Glasgow, the not so good, and talk about the moments that had the world talking, and why. It’s two weeks of talks summarised in under 20 minutes!

So join us! Give the poddie a listen. Subscribe. Get in touch with us via social media and sign up to our newsletter. We’re here to bring you the sort of upbeat, comprehensive environmental reporting that we know people are craving.

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