Toll-road operator Transurban has become the first ASX20 company to have its carbon emissions reductions goals validated under the international science-based targets program.
Environment group WWF is spearheading efforts to establish a buyers' alliance for low-emission building products, and companies including Lendlease and Transurban are among the early supporters.
The world will find an injection against COVID, but there is "no vaccine against climate change", former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres told an Australian briefing today.
Within two years, Europe will have set a date for imposing border taxes on emissions-intensive imports from countries without a carbon price, a leading UK carbon expert has predicted.
Technological solutions to climate change have become economically viable faster than anticipated, but greater efforts are needed to rapidly deploy them, concludes a new analysis from ClimateWorks.
The NSW government's plan to put the state on track to net-zero emissions will encourage good performers and expose bad ones, while leveraging government procurement and assets to an unprecedented extent.