Climate and environment
Australia’s 2035 emissions goal lifts ambition, but without clear delivery plans to turn intent into investment and resilience, targets risk ringing hollow.
Climate change is reshaping balance sheets. For super funds, ignoring these risks means eroding returns and failing fiduciary duty to members.
Matt Kean, who chairs the CCA, has revealed it stripped out key assumptions from its models, including emissions projections and the takeup of some technologies.
Some investors are urging Canberra to widen its safeguard mechanism to cover heavy transport and power, warning current policies won’t hit 2035 targets.
Sussan Ley thinks Labor’s 2035 climate goal is a “fantasyland”. But the ongoing Coalition divisions on climate will likely prove a much bigger headache for her.
Leading economics forecaster Oxford Economics warns that an ambitious emissions target will require heavy lifting from transport and industry.
The Albanese government says gas and climate action can go hand in hand. But its own strategy shows just how fraught that balancing act really is.
The Energy Security Corporation is inching closer to deploying the first of its $1 billion funding kitty.
The rubber will soon hit the road for Pollination Group's climate fund manager as it readies a second natural capital strategy.
The sale process for a stake in a wind and solar project in Central Queensland could serve as a litmus test for clean energy funding.
The gentailer is racing to fund the batteries and wind farms that will replace its coal power stations, which are set to close. But it may need to sell upcoming developments to fund the transition.
Despite rising anti-ESG sentiment in the US, Australia’s major banks remain committed to financing the energy transition toward net zero emissions.
The impact investor has nabbed its largest commitment to date from one of the country's biggest institutions as part of its first-ever pooled fund.
NRF chair Martijn Wilder has told Capital Brief investing in the fund's other priority areas of agriculture, forestry, transport, military and green manufacturing is proving “difficult”.
US private equity giant Kolhberg Kravis Roberts is on the hunt for more Asia-Pacific climate transition plays after scooping up Australia's CleanPeak Energy.
A wave of global court rulings is redefining climate risk, with growing legal pressure on governments and corporates to act, disclose and be held accountable.
Heavyweight shareholders failed to compel Macquarie to step up its climate disclosures, but their protest vote suggests the Trump-driven backlash against ESG has not reached Australia.
Sussan Ley’s first big moment in parliament as Liberal leader was overshadowed by Coalition infighting, with Nationals MPs reviving old battles over net zero and energy policy.
