Why have successive Australian governments found it so difficult to truly embrace the country’s potential to become a clean energy superpower?
Cost-of-living increases, inflation, and energy prices affect everyone. And that matters even more when we’re amid a significant generational shift in voting patterns.
Any incentives for energy upgrades need to consider past experience to maximise uptake, prevent unintended consequences, and reduce the likelihood that such schemes will further entrench disadvantage.
There’s still more we can do within the Australian Sustainable Finance Strategy to help meet critical company sustainability goals.
It’s still possible for Australia to cut emissions in line with holding climate change to 1.5°C, but only if we act quickly and seize the enormous opportunities offered in fast decarbonisation.
There’s more to the kingdom’s nuclear ambitions than becoming a civilian nuclear energy powerhouse and exporter.
If we’re to effectively tackle the critical challenge of climate change, we urgently need a better and more coordinated global transformation to environmentally-friendly economies.
After a decade of climate wars, Australia is suddenly united, with state, territory and federal governments aiming for net zero by 2050 for the first time.
The Andrews government has signalled a major shakeup of Victoria’s energy sector. But is it enough to bring the state’s energy prices down and reduce emissions?
This year’s election results show Australians are eager for fast action on climate change. Here are four ways our new prime minister can deliver energy reform to meet emission targets.
Taxing US$2.10 for a ton of emissions may not be enough to save the country from its climate crisis.
Although the clock’s running out, Australia has no agreed policymaking framework for our unique renewable energy transition issues, and little in the way of budget support.
We should welcome all options that enable low-carbon hydrogen to play a role in decarbonising our energy systems, and stop focusing on colour-coding production methods.
The increasing consumer demand for renewable and sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based plastics has driven the innovation of biopolymer-based packaging.
Unlike, for instance, lawnmowers, you don’t just “plug in” a bus to a regular outlet – the charging equipment is sophisticated, extensive, and expensive.
Electricity should be a main focus, but big improvements are also needed in transport, industry, agriculture and buildings.
Five years after the pivotal Paris Climate Accords, a new report looks beyond the numbers to ask what’s really happening in key countries – including Australia.
Australia has abundant wind and solar resources to provide large quantities of cost-competitive green hydrogen. A new tool can show the way forward.
A 2050 net zero goal will provide clarity, ambition and focus. But Scott Morrison must back rhetoric with investment and policy commensurate with the task.
Stimulus investment after the pandemic presents a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to pivot economies away from emissions-intensive growth, and towards green growth.
In this What Happens Next? podcast episode Susan chats to the experts exploring what we could do differently to improve the quality of information and media.
Solving climate change would involve only a fraction of the interventions into civic, business and organisational life that we're seeing now.
What role did climate change play in Australia's devastating bushfires?
With Australia in the grip of devastating bushfires, Indigenous people must be involved in prevention strategies.
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