The Investor Group on Climate Change has released its policy priorities report for 2022-2025, outlining key areas for reform that would align Australia’s emissions target to the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5C and ensure the country was able to manage an “orderly” retreat from coal.

New research by the Australian National University’s Professor Andrew Macintosh has identified “systemic flaws” with the way regulators are handing out carbon credits to Australian businesses, calling the system a “fraud on the environment”. 

RepuTex, the company that helped draft Labor’s climate policy before the election is warning the Albanese government that it shouldn’t reward big polluters with new carbon credits that do not equate to a direct environmental improvement. According to RepuTex, half of Australia’s 215 biggest carbon...

Woodside’s final federal environmental submission for its toxic Browse gas project reveals it will produce approximately 1.6 billion tonnes of climate pollution over its lifetime, and will directly threaten the habitat of critically endangered turtle species.

Australia is only funding one-tenth of its fair share of climate finance globally, according to a new Oxfam and ActionAid report which calls on the country to immediately increase its climate finance commitments from $400 million to $3 billion ahead of COP27 in November. 

Australia's Biggest Climate Polluter, AGL Energy, faces a fresh fight with its biggest shareholder, Mike Cannon-Brookes, after it short-listed Paula Dwyer as its next chair ahead of a major overhaul of its board and strategy.

Responsible investing is on the rise, with more than $1.5 trillion of assets in Australia being managed according to ESG principles - up from $1.28 trillion in 2020. 

Toyota has placed last in a ranking of car makers’ decarbonisation efforts as a new Greenpeace Australia Pacific report exposes the company’s track record of lobbying against measures to reduce climate pollution from vehicles, greenwashing, and advocacy for fossil-fuelled hybrid vehicles.

One of Australia’s biggest super funds has warned electricity producers AGL and Origin and gas companies Santos and Woodside that it could dump their stocks unless the companies take serious steps to align their business plans with limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Celcius.

Tropical regions including northern Australia could experience dangerously high heat levels most days by 2100, while southern parts of the country may face deadly heatwaves annually by then, according to researchers from Harvard and the University of Washington.