Yesterday
The storm chasers trying to save the world from drought
Everyone agrees the planet needs more water. So why is cloud-seeding so controversial?
- Jeremy Miller
September
King Charles to spotlight climate change during Australian visit
King Charles, who has undergone cancer treatment, and Queen Camilla will visit Sydney and Canberra in October.
- Andrew Tillett
Wall Street’s ESG backlash does little to dent Australia’s enthusiasm
Analysis from Jarden shows ASX-listed groups increased their mentions of environmental, social and governance commitments in the last earnings season.
- Joshua Peach and Joanne Tran
- Updated
- Climate policy
Matt Kean unveils plan to achieve net zero by 2050
The Climate Change Authority’s landmark report downplayed the Coalition’s nuclear ambitions and said wind and solar generation needs to move faster to ensure Australia’s net zero ambitions are not derailed.
- Ronald Mizen and Angela Macdonald-Smith
August
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Musk, Abbott just the tip of the iceberg of climate inaction
Readers’ letters on ‘climate claptrap’; Greens pushing to own mines; the urgency of power grid modernisation; the sad end of Black Caviar; and international student numbers.
Super funds look to take advantage of energy transition
The biggest question for the $3.9 trillion super sector is not whether to invest in the energy transition’s unlisted asset boom, but rather which opportunities are best.
- Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Investors are developing a ‘dirty’ little secret
Glencore’s decision to keep its energy coal business is part of a broader push back against climate-related strategy shifts by big emitters.
- James Thomson
July
This top exec reveals the secret to having it all
Sinead Booth is one of the 2024 BOSS Young Executives. She first gained business experience helping with the books as a teenager at her father’s refrigeration business.
- Sally Patten
This exec wants more than a CEO role. She wants to be an astronaut
Renee Wootton is one of the 2024 BOSS Young Executives. She works in the fledgling sustainable aviation sector, but her real goal is to go to the International Space Station.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- Energy transition
The common sense path to net zero
Looking at the environmental crisis through the lens of financial frameworks, the core principles that drive good investment are also at play in climate change.
- Kate Howitt and Gates Moss
- Overall Winner
- Sustainability Leaders
Orica crowned Australia’s most sustainable company for Impact
The explosives manufacturer is recognised for completing the biggest emissions abatement project in the Australian chemicals sector as it takes out the 2024 Sustainability Leaders award.
- Sally Patten
- Exclusive
- Start-ups
Aussie tech’s climate crisis as start-ups face capital crunch
At least 100 Australian climate tech start-ups need to raise capital in the next nine months to avoid going bust, but say the bar for investment is sky-high.
- Yolanda Redrup
HMC Capital chooses battery storage for first climate investment
David Di Pilla’s asset manager will pay up to $50 million for a controlling stake in StorEnergy, which is headed by a former Spark Infrastructure executive.
- Kylar Loussikian
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
This super fund is cashing in on climate risk
Insurers love telling us how hard and expensive it is to get reinsurance, so it is good to see an Australian super fund - MLC super - making money from it.
- Anthony Macdonald
June
Keating labels Dutton ‘a charlatan and climate change denialist’
The former prime minister accused the Coalition leader of seeking to “camouflage” his “long held climate denialism” in an industrial fantasy of nuclear energy.
- Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Nuclear energy
Labor’s $40b renewables bid attracts massive industry support
Energy Minister Chris Bowen will on Monday reveal the first auction for 6 gigawatts of renewable energy received bids from more than 100 projects covering more than 40 gigawatts of renewable energy production.
- Ronald Mizen
What do Nobel, Dulux and Australia’s first high-rise have in common?
From making bricks for the 1956 Olympics to paint, explosives and mining technology company Orica’s long history mirrors the Australian economy.
- Patrick Durkin
Peter Dutton’s climate move a ‘big mistake’: Labor MP
A pledge by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to dump Australia’s legally binding climate targets has been labelled a “big mistake”.
- Updated
- Tess Ikonomou
Australia is ‘cherry-picking’ sustainability reporting standards
It is one of few jurisdictions that has agreed to apply new reporting standards only partially, says former super fund chief David Atkin.
- Sally Patten
Honesty and action key to limiting ‘real’ greenwashing
The risk of regulatory crackdowns should not turn companies off making climate change commitments, provided they manage them well.
- Hannah Wootton