Energy transition

There's a flood of well-intentioned investors running headlong into green investments. This London asset manager believes many of them are getting it wrong.

Carbon capture and storage has divided the clean tech community for years. But there's growing support for its use in hard to abate sectors. And one of the biggest projects in Australia to date, by Santos, is set to go live in 2024.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency shortlisted six projects for its $2 billion Hydrogen Headstart program, but the brainchilds of Woodside and Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest's Fortescue were conspicuous by their absence.

One of Brookfield's most senior executives tells Capital Brief there are "certainly other opportunities in Australia" for a landmark deal beyond Origin Energy.

The diversified miner has ambitions to corner lithium in Australia, break the country's iron oligopoly, get into oil, and build billion-dollar gas facilities – all at once.

Beyond pursuing a potential $80 billion corporate merger, Woodside and Santos could well also compare notes on defending claims of greenwashing.

Woodside and Santos are poles apart on their ESG strategies. Would an $80 billion merger be beneficial from a sustainability lens?

Australia signals it wants to end fossil fuel use but must tread a delicate balance in the final COP28 negotiations.

It's not often five directors abruptly resign from the board of a listed company just hours before its AGM. But that's what happened at electrification and defence play Rectifier Technologies this week.

With the annual UN climate change talks kicking off in Dubai, Australian negotiators should be encouraged by recent progress. But with the world on track for its hottest year on record, now isn’t the time for complacency.

On a day when Fortescue shares hit record highs, Andrew Forrest was caught on a hot mic complaining to colleagues about its lengthy AGM and the the Welcome to Country that preceded it.