November 2022
Who should pay? Climate compensation tops COP27 agenda
As leaders gather in Egypt, the climate change talks will formerly deal with the contentious issue of “loss and damage” from global warming.
- Camilla Hodgson
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Expect COP27 to be about implementing climate targets
The three key areas for focus at the UN climate change conference will be about moving countries from “pledges to promises”, physical resilience and money.
- Adrian King and Barry Sterland
September 2022
US banks threaten to leave Mark Carney’s climate alliance
Lenders fear lawsuits if they stick with Mark Carney’s green alliance Gfanz.
- Stephen Morris, Kenza Bryan and Owen Walker
May 2022
Pandemic, war, politics hamper global climate action
Nearly six months after the Glasgow summit, promises to do more to combat climate change have mostly come to nothing.
- Brady Dennis
April 2022
- Exclusive
- Women in Leadership
Aussie eco-entrepreneur makes World Economic Forum class of 2022
Sophia Hamblin Wang, a co-founder of carbon capture and utilisation pioneer MCI, has been named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
- Julie Hare
March 2022
Businesses struggle to keep climate promises
Australian businesses are getting into the hard work of delivering on lofty environmental and social promises and finding it tougher than expected.
- Agnes King
January 2022
Kuwait is fast becoming unlivable as global warming takes its toll
Temperature records are being smashed all over the world, but Kuwait breached 50 degrees Celsius in June, weeks ahead of its usual peak weather.
- Fiona MacDonald
December 2021
The cost of 2021’s 10 worst climate disasters: $U170b
Ten of this year’s most destructive weather events around the globe cost a combined $US170 billion in damages.
- Damian Shepherd
US-China gas deals defy tensions between world powers
China is poised to surpass Japan as the world’s largest LNG buyer this year, while the US will leapfrog Australia and Qatar in LNG export capacity.
- Justin Jacobs and Derek Brower
Pimco, Fidelity shun net zero alliance embraced by BlackRock
A group of Wall Street giants has decided to sit out one of the industry’s biggest coalitions: the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.
- Updated
- Alastair Marsh and Silla Brush
- Exclusive
- Business People of the Year
For Andrew Forrest, change comes as naturally as breathing
In 2021, the proudly West Australian billionaire surpassed even his previous whirlwind pace of activity, culminating in his attention-grabbing appearances at COP26 in Glasgow.
- Jennifer Hewett
Cost remains a challenge for burgeoning hydrogen industry
The federal government’s first State of the Hydrogen report outlined the challenges for Australia to have a world-leading export industry by the early 2030s.
- Mark Ludlow
- Analysis
- Hedge funds
Hedge funds game the system to cash in on ESG
Investment houses are scrambling to label products as net zero, but some are relying on financial engineering.
- Louis Ashworth
November 2021
Investors want to ratchet up ‘blended finance’ in climate fight
A group of the world’s biggest asset owners are proposing a dramatic escalation of joint public-private financing ventures in a bid to help poor countries weather the climate crisis.
- John Ainger
10 long reads for this weekend
A new generation of social media traders with a taste for Lamborghinis; how property prices have made old retirement strategies extinct; and a city-by-city guide to the best new restaurants.
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Carbon taxes, real or false, are not going to get the job done
The idea is to cut the cost of clean energy, not make everything else more expensive. There are global breakthroughs when the challenge of unique national circumstances is acknowledged.
- Angus Taylor
- Analysis
- Hydrogen
Reality check for Morrison and Taylor’s golden ticket to net zero
Shifting Australia to renewables and hydrogen will take a transition ‘akin to the industrial revolution’, and the costs will be huge, however it’s done.
- Jacob Greber
Fear of the law will bring businesses in line on greenwashing
Greenwashing by corporations could result in reputational damage and more legal action.
- Agnes King
$5 trillion powering the green investment market
The majority of investors expect fund managers to engage with companies to improve their carbon emissions outcomes, according to a global survey by Natixis.
- Aleks Vickovich
China doubles down on a slower coal exit after Glasgow spat
Both China and India, the biggest coal-consuming nations, have been ramping up output from mines in recent weeks to ease an autumn energy crisis.
- David Stringer and Will Wade