Ahead of an August 26 meeting of building ministers, an alliance of more than 100 businesses and organisations has urged them to back stronger housing energy efficiency standards.
The federal government will tip an extra $1.8 billion into climate action over 10 years, with a stronger emphasis on hard-to-abate sectors, hydrogen, transport, energy productivity, soil carbon and CCS.
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.
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.
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.
Energy ministers have agreed that new electric appliances including air-conditioners must be capable of external power down, after modelling showed the net benefits could be as high as $2.8 billion out to 2036.