Today
Conflict concerns at Kean advising government and rich investors
Former NSW treasurer Matt Kean has defended taking dual roles as a federal government climate change adviser and at a private green investment fund led by a former Macquarie banker.
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- John Kehoe
BHP, Rio and Qantas back $250m carbon fund to beef up emission offsets
The fund is being run by Silva Capital, itself a joint venture of agriculture-focused private capital investor ROC Capital and C6 Investment Management.
- Ben Potter
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Cheap, fast and low-risk climate action opportunities
The core principles that drive good investment are also at play in climate change. Climate Ltd should think about diversifying its emission reduction bets.
- Kate Howitt and Gates Moss
This Month
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- Schneider Electric
Corporate heavyweights fear nation falling behind on climate
Leaders across the nation’s largest industries are increasingly concerned that Australia is falling behind in the global race to address climate change.
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Cannon-Brookes, Turnbull-backed solar maker cuts staff, replaces CEO
SunDrive, which also counts Blackbird as an investor, is restructuring its business at the same time as it courts global partners to expand its operations.
- Ben Potter
- Updated
- Gas
Woodside’s $30b Browse LNG project faces EPA knockback threat
The recommendation is not final and could be reversed after further negotiations, but a final rejection would be a blow to Labor’s long-term gas strategy.
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- Ben Potter, Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson
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- Smartways
Embracing sustainability in the healthcare sector
The road to net zero requires all industries to press for carbon neutrality.
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- Opinion
- China relations
How China would work with Future Made in Australia
Chinese economic modernisation encompasses enormous potential for bilateral cooperation in emerging sectors such as green development and the digital economy.
- Xiao Qian
July
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
Jabiluka was cancelled by edict from above
The decision to mine the uranium deposit or not should have been taken by the parties involved, not through the high-handed intervention of an anti-nuclear government.
- Tony Grey
Nuclear talk finally goes ahead after Holmes à Court criticism
The engineer whose nuclear speech was cancelled the day renewable energy advocate Simon Holmes à Court objected to it has finally delivered the talk.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Gas
We need to clear the runway for new gas supply
Growing acceptance from governments of the role of gas in the energy transition is yet to translate into actions to clear the backlog of projects stuck in regulatory approval purgatory.
- Samantha McCulloch
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Uranium mining bans belong to a previous era
Labor’s efforts to keep Australia’s energy transition uranium mining-free amount to a self-defeating hobbling of the nation’s green superpower hopes.
- The AFR View
That cool op-shop jacket could earn you carbon credits
Federal regulators are considering a proposal to offer financial incentives to consumers who buy second-hand clothes.
- Peter Ker
- 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
Qld premier raises problem of water risk under Dutton’s nuclear plan
Labor Premier Steven Miles has quoted a new report outlining the need for a state-based plebiscite to adopt the Coalition’s nuclear plan.
- James Hall
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Delivering the world’s most important corporate rescue
What’s true for commodities is true for the greatest eleventh-hour turnaround in human history. In climate terms, that means “the cure for high emissions is high prices”.
- Kate Howitt and Gates Moss
- Opinion
- Hydrogen
Hard energy reality has mugged Fortescue’s hydrogen dreams
Andrew Forrest is not alone. Many corporates have suffered a similar delusion about simple, easy and cheap transition.
- Patrick Gibbons
- Opinion
- Hydrogen
Picking green over blue is stalling our hydrogen superpower hopes
Labor’s tax incentive scheme maintains the habit of describing identical molecules with colours of the rainbow. It is out of step with Australia’s competitors and customers
- David Heard
- Opinion
- Energy transition
It’s an energy race between the implausible and the impossible
Peter Dutton has come up with a nuclear-powered cost of living wedge to expose Labor’s overreach on renewables and sustainability.
- Matthew Warren
- Opinion
- Energy transition
CSIRO brings science, not politics, to electricity cost debate
Some nuclear fans claim the agency has a position on Australia’s energy mix. That is both wrong and a misinterpretation.
- Doug Hilton
